Um... uh... do I sound stupid?

Have you ever wondered why some of us just can't seem to expunge those "ums" and "uhs" from our speech, no matter how hard we try?

I don't know about you, but even as a professional speaker, I still have to carefully edit those filler words out of my podcast every week. And it's worrisome, since many people tend to take a plethora of "um" and "uh" as a sign of a lack of intelligence, or at least as a sign of a less-than-suave delivery.

Turns out that there is actually a reason for those seemingly meaningless fillers.

Read on ....

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