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This Speaking Style Is Quietly Blowing Up On YouTube
A YouTuber breaks down 'embodied speaking,' the body-based delivery style he says is the one thing AI-written scripts can't fake.
November 5th 2025The argument in one line.
Speaking coherently on camera doesn't require a script or teleprompter, it requires a one-page plan built from three-word memory cues (pull, paint, point) rehearsed in short solo practice reps before the real take.
Read if. Skip if.
READ IF YOU ARE…
- A YouTube creator who wants to ditch the teleprompter but keeps rambling or losing their train of thought when they try to speak off the cuff.
- Someone who already writes scripts or outlines and wants a lighter planning method that still keeps videos structured and engaging.
- A creator whose retention drops because unscripted talking-head segments feel repetitive, unfocused, or full of filler words.
SKIP IF…
- You already deliver scripted, teleprompter-read videos and have no interest in switching to an off-the-cuff delivery style.
- You're not making single-camera talking-head content where a presenter has to remember and deliver points from memory.
The full version, fast.
Scripts and teleprompters make videos feel robotic, so this video teaches a plan built from single-word memory cues instead of full sentences. Under each of a video's main points, write three sub-cues: pull (why this matters to the viewer), paint (an analogy, story, or example), and point (the actual takeaway or action step). Because you're triggering thoughts rather than reading text, you stay unscripted while still following a structure that hooks viewers on every point. To fix leftover incoherence, rehearse each point alone in a two-minute timed practice rep before recording the real video, which is what actually builds fluency, not the plan itself.
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00:00 – 00:58
01 · The problem with scripts and teleprompters
States that not being able to speak coherently is the top thing that holds creators back, argues teleprompters feel robotic and inauthentic, and frames visibly unscripted delivery as a way to stand out as AI floods feeds with polished, scripted-looking video.
00:58 – 02:36
02 · Ditch the script, make a one-page plan
States the promise for the video, then introduces the alternative to a full script: write out your thinking first to clarify it, but compress that into a plan of only one or two words per point so it triggers memory instead of getting read verbatim.
02:36 – 03:33
03 · Stop rambling: add pull, paint, point sub-bullets
Explains why loose bullet points invite rambling and video length to balloon, then introduces a fixed three-part sub-structure, labeled pull, paint, and point, to write under each main point.
03:33 – 04:58
04 · Pull: why this point matters to the viewer
Defines the pull sub-cue as a couple of words capturing why the point matters, demonstrated with a progressive-overload gym example labeled 'spinning wheels.'
04:58 – 06:00
05 · Paint: the analogy that illustrates the point
Defines the paint sub-cue as a pointer to a story, analogy, or example, demonstrated by setting up a Brian-versus-Jason gym story before revealing what it's actually about.
06:00 – 07:20
06 · Point: the actual takeaway or action step
Defines the point sub-cue as the real instruction or action step, recaps all three terms together, and closes the loop on the progressive-overload example with 'add weight.'
07:20 – 08:47
07 · A plan isn't the same as speaking clearly
Points out that copying the pull/paint/point structure for every point in a video still leaves a real problem, filler words and a lost train of thought, then pitches a custom GPT that helps build the plan itself from a lazy voice-dictated brain dump.
08:47 – 09:44
08 · The real fix: point practice reps
Introduces the actual coherence fix: recording yourself talking through a single point for two minutes, alone, before the real video, memorizing only the order of the pull/paint/point cues.
09:44 – 11:08
09 · Live demo: a practice rep in real time
Runs an on-camera practice rep with an on-screen timer, talking through the spinning-wheels pull, the Brian-versus-Jason paint, and the progressive-overload point live, including losing his train of thought mid-rep.
11:08 – 11:52
10 · Wrap-up and the challenge pitch
Reflects that most people never practice their points before recording, pitches the paid 30 Day Talking To Camera Challenge as where this practice habit lives, and teases a follow-up video on cutting filler words.
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- Writing a full script and then trying to 'say it in your own words' just delays the moment you're reading verbatim off the page.
- A video plan built from one or two words per point works because it triggers memory instead of asking you to recite text.
- Every point in an unscripted video benefits from three sub-cues: why it matters (pull), an example or story (paint), and the actual takeaway (point).
- The pull and paint sections deliberately withhold the actual point, so the viewer stays hooked until the payoff lands.
- A one-page plan solves what to say; it does not solve how coherently you say it, those are two separate problems with two separate fixes.
- Rehearsing a single point for two minutes on your phone, alone, before the real recording is what actually builds spoken fluency.
- Practicing out loud is a distinct skill from planning content, and skipping the practice step is why most planned videos still come out choppy.
- Feeding an AI planning tool more raw, unstructured detail about a topic produces output closer to your natural voice than a short prompt does.
- As AI content floods feeds with polished, scripted-looking videos, visibly unscripted delivery becomes a way to read as more human on camera.
A Three-Word Cue Beats A Full Script
SPEAKING STRUCTURE
A plan built from one-word memory triggers, not full sentences, lets you speak unscripted while still hitting the same hook-then-payoff structure scripted videos use.
01The problem with scripts and teleprompters
- Writing a full script just delays reading verbatim off the page, since you'll still feel compelled to say it exactly as written once it exists.
- Leaning into visibly unscripted delivery is a way to stand out as AI floods feeds with polished, scripted-looking video.
02Ditch the script, make a one-page plan
- Free-writing to clarify your own thinking is useful, but that raw writing should never become the plan you read from on camera.
- A workable video plan uses only one or two words per point, just enough to trigger the idea from memory instead of reciting it.
03Stop rambling: add pull, paint, point sub-bullets
- Three loose bullet points invite endless rambling; adding a fixed three-part sub-structure under each one keeps you on track without a script.
04Pull: why this point matters to the viewer
- Under each point, the 'pull' cue is a couple of words capturing why that point matters to the viewer, written before you explain what the point actually is.
05Paint: the analogy that illustrates the point
- The 'paint' cue points to a story, analogy, or example that illustrates the point vividly, without yet stating the point itself.
06Point: the actual takeaway or action step
- The 'point' cue is the actual takeaway or action step, deliberately withheld until after the pull and paint have built anticipation for it.
07A plan isn't the same as speaking clearly
- A complete one-page plan solves what to say next, but it doesn't by itself fix filler words or a lost train of thought on camera.
08The real fix: point practice reps
- The actual fix for incoherent delivery is a two-minute solo practice rep per point, recorded before the real video, not a better plan.
09Live demo: a practice rep in real time
- Losing your train of thought mid-rep is fine and expected, the rep's job is to build fluency before the real recording, not to be perfect.
Terms worth knowing.
- Pull
- The first sub-cue written under a video point: a short note reminding you to explain why this point matters to the viewer before you get into it.
- Paint
- The second sub-cue under a video point: a note pointing to an analogy, story, or example that illustrates the point in a vivid way.
- Point
- The third sub-cue under a video point: the actual takeaway, main idea, or action step the viewer should walk away with.
- Practice rep
- A timed solo run-through, usually two minutes, where you speak through a single point out loud and record yourself before shooting the real video.
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“Not being able to speak coherently on YouTube is the number one problem that people come to me for help with.”
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“It's something that almost 99% of people don't do, which is only why the top 1% of people actually get results.”
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“Most people never practice their points. They just press record and start rambling.”
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Not being able to speak coherently on YouTube is the number one problem that people come to me for help with because it is the number one skill on YouTube that makes a difference. They might be saying, Thomas, what are you talking about? I could just use a script and a teleprompter and then my speaking problems go away.
Yeah, that's true. That's true. But a lot of us don't want to do that, myself included.
I really hate reading from a teleprompter. It makes me feel super robotic, inauthentic, and thousands of my followers agree with me. It's also...
A matter of fact, that AI right now is flooding our feeds with professional polish, scripted looking videos. So making yourself as distinguishable from that as possible is great. And YouTube is trending right now with raw, authentic and natural content.
So by leaning into this trend, we can become more human. We can speak with more freedom. We can get more engagement and get better retention as well.
And it's all about learning the skill of speaking coherently. So in this video, I want to show you exactly how to do that. And not only just do that for yourself to speak better and feel better whilst making content, but also make videos that get hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube like these ones I'm putting on screen.
They will follow the exact method that I'm about to show you. So let's crack into it. The first thing you're going to want to do is ditch the script and make a plan.
And the perfect plan isn't a very complicated plan. In fact, it should look something like this.
A three -year -old could make it. That's the idea. To clarify your thoughts, first up, you might want to do some writing.
Writing is great for clarifying thoughts. So you can go away, you can get some books, you can collect stories from your own experience, all of the knowledge that you need to synthesize in your brain. Writing out your thoughts on a topic can be an amazing thing to do.
But only to clarify your own thinking. You don't actually want to then use what you've written as a script or as a plan for a video because you're going to be jumbling over your own words once you've written everything out you're going to want to say it exactly how you've written it and then you may as well just buy a teleprompter at that point so instead what you want to do is if you have written something you then want to transfer that into a video plan like this and you want to have only one or two words written for each point and one or two words written for each sub bullet point, which is going to trigger your memory to then know that, all right, I'm going to talk about that exact thing right now.
Now, one of you guys asked me the question very recently, how do I keep myself reined in whilst speaking through bullet points? And this is exactly how you do that. Most people, when they go unscripted, they think, right, I'm going to just like jot out three points.
You're going to have like three main tips or steps in this video. I'm going to jot out those points. And then I'm just going to speak off the cuff around those things.
And then they go down a thousand rabbit holes and the whole thing starts taking a lot longer than they thought. And the video is not very engaging. This is where these three sub -bullet points comes in.
And under each sub -bullet point, you're going to want to write something very specific. Underneath the first bullet point, we're going to write pull. And then a couple of words.
So like this. Pull. Under the next one, we're going to write paint.
And then a couple of other words that I'll fill in in just a second. And then under the fourth one, the third one, sorry, we're going to write point. We've got pull, paint, point.
Now what each of these things refer to is a specific psychological... storytelling or communication device that we are using within our points that are going to hook our viewers and allow all of our videos to make people understand things in a way that they haven't heard before, make your information feel new, compelling and engaging.
This is the secret sauce behind making unscripted videos that actually perform well. It's using the same psychological principles that people put in scripted videos that are trying to hook viewers with every sentence that they're saying. And instead, just taking the gas off that a little bit, but making sure that you have them throughout your video, right?
So before each point, you want to simply explain in the pull section why this point matters to your viewer. And so you put a couple of views. Let's say this point was about building muscle in the gym.
And we're going to call this point overload, right? You can see that. That's all I'm literally going to write for this point.
Overload. That's the name of the point. Now that might not mean much to you, but it means something to me.
And that is the important thing because you're not showing your viewers your plan. You're just triggering thoughts and bite -sized nuggets of information from within your own brain. So in the pool, I might say, right, overload.
Why is progressive overload in the gym important? And that means, by the way, getting stronger every time you work out. And so the pool is something like, if you don't follow this, you won't make any progress, right?
You'll just be . So let's say spinning. You won't be able to read this, but you get the idea.
That's literally what I've written for that sub -bullet point. In the next one, we've got paint. Right, what's an analogy, story, metaphor, or example I can use in this point?
Maybe I could tell a story about person A versus person B. Right, I'm just going to write that. A versus B.
So I could say something like, oh, Brian goes to the gym and he works out. And he chases a pump. He feels good.
He likes to get that feeling of blood in his muscles. And he does that for a year. He doesn't make too much progress.
Versus Jason, who goes in and tracks his lifts and adds a tiny little plate to each lift every time that he works out. By the end of it, he's lifting way more weight and he gets great results, right? So that's just triggered an analogy in my mind to illustrate how this might work.
And that's why I call it paint. Just to explain the pull, by the way, I'm getting ahead of myself here. pull is pulling your audience in, right?
That first sub -bullet point. How can I pull you in? The second one is paint because you're illustrating, you're with a story analogy or metaphor.
And then the point. So what is the actual point? Well, the actual point here is going to be something along the lines of progressive overload, right?
So notice that in the pull and the paint, I haven't actually yet explained what I'm talking about. I'm just saying this is really important because if you don't do it, you're going to spin your wheels. And then I'm saying, Here's an example of two people doing two different things.
And then you drop the point. And the point would be something like, add weight, right? That's all I'm going to add here.
So this is the actual instructions. This is the actual action steps. Add a little bit of weight every time you work out.
That's it. That's how I'd structure my point. And so this, using this structure in this formula, is exactly how I can speak off the cuff.
Sometimes just in one take with no edits, sometimes with just a few cuts throughout my video, and sometimes more cuts and it doesn't matter, I'm still speaking off the cuff, I'm just starting and stopping fairly regularly. This is how I do that and make videos that get hundreds of thousands of views. Because I use this formula.
It keeps everything feeling new and engaging for the audience, it boosts retention because people want to watch till the end, and it makes it easy for me to remember. the most important thing. I'm not following a script and trying to look at something I've already pre -written out and then say it in my own words again.
I'm just using little points here to trigger my memory as each of these one or two words just trigger something in my brain where I know, cool, now I'm going to talk about spinning wheels. Cool, now I'm going to talk about A versus B. Cool, now I'm going to talk about adding weight in the actual action step.
If you have three points in your video, just copy that structure for each one of your points, and that's how you stay on track when you speak. Okay, that's all great, but we have a problem now, which is, all right, Thomas, this structure sounds great. I've got my one -page plan.
This is all good in theory, but I still can't really say these points coherently. My sentences are full of filler words. I feel a bit unconfident.
I don't know how to just keep my train of thought whilst looking at the camera. I'm going to tell you a secret to overcome all of that and help you massively with it in just a sec. But first, if you actually want help planning out these points in your videos, I've got a custom GPT called Pull Paint Point, and it's going to help you with all of this.
All you need to do is grab your phone. Let's pretend this glasses case is my phone. And you just press the button which says dictate.
into chat gpt into this custom gpt you say right i've got this point idea about this this this this this i kind of think i want to talk about this and this is kind of like an example idea i had be super lazy take like a couple of minutes give it a lot of detail but be lazy with it don't structure it press enter And the GPT will spit you out a pull paint point structure that will light your brain on fire.
And you'll be like, you select from a few different options and it will just craft your point for you. The key here to using this custom GPT is give it a lot of information. The more information you give your AI helper, the more it's going to help you craft your own voice and retain your tone of voice and your image and your sound rather than starting to sound like something that you wouldn't actually say.
Okay, cool. So how do I actually solve this coherence problem? What we want to do is point practice reps.
And what that means is for every point, let's say point one, what you're going to do is set a two minute timer on your phone and record yourself. This is before you record your actual YouTube video and do a practice rep. So this is going to look like setting up your phone beside you, press record, and you have your points in front of you.
And all you're going to do is memorize the order of the point. See if you can memorize this with me. This is what you're going to be doing.
Pull, spinning your wheels. Paint, A versus B. Pull, progressive overload.
And then you're going to talk for two minutes. And I'm not very fresh on this, so I'm going to be practicing as well. So let's pretend you're the phone.
So pull spinning wheels. This first point is the difference between spinning your wheels in the gym and not actually making any progress in building any muscle versus being completely unrecognizable in one year. And it's something that almost 99 % of people don't do, which is only why the top 1 % of people actually get results.
So imagine this. We've got Brian over here and Jason over here. Brian goes to the gym and he chases a pump.
He goes around doing bicep curls because they feel good, picking a random weight each time. He also does some overhead press because it feels good in his shoulders. And he just sort of swings the weights around and just starts like chasing a pump.
And in the mirror, he looks great because he's got that little pump. But over a year, he takes an after photo of himself compared to the before and he doesn't look any different. Jason, on the other hand, goes to the gym and he writes down every single weight that he's lifted for the amount of reps that he's lifted that as well.
the first set he does eight reps with 30 kilograms of bench press yeah not very strong starting out then the next week he comes back and he realizes he can do nine and he writes that down then the next week he thinks right i'm gonna go to 35 kilos he goes back to seven reps but he's writing down every time by the end of the year he's now benching 80 kilograms rather than 30 and his body looks completely unrecognizable now i've lost my train of thought which is fine because it's a practice rep so what did jason do that rob didn't well jason used a concept called progressive overload, meaning that every single day he tracked his weight and he got stronger every single time.
You see, adding strength is the number one predictor of actually transforming your body. If you get stronger, it's almost impossible for your body not to start looking different. So when you go to the gym, make sure that you write down your lifts.
Cool, stop recording the phone. That was a practice point rep. I got one rep in.
I'm not talking about fitness anymore. I got one rep in of practicing that point. Great.
I'm already ahead of most people. Most people never practice their points. They just press record and start rambling.
What if I did that two more times? It's not that much effort and it literally takes one or two minutes every time you do it. But if I did that two more times, you'd bet by the time I actually recorded that YouTube video, I'd be speaking pretty damn coherently.
This concept of speaking reps is built into the 30 day talking to camera challenge. We've got thousands of members on the inside practicing their speaking every single day, transforming themselves from feeling awkward to speaking confidently on camera. If you want to join us, the link is in the description below.
And if you want to eliminate um and filler words forever from your videos, check out this video next.
The Hook
The bait, then the rug-pull.
The video opens on a blunt diagnosis: most creators' videos fail not because the ideas are bad, but because they can't say those ideas out loud without a script. What follows is a plan for skipping the teleprompter without collapsing into rambling.
Named ideas worth stealing.
03:29list
Pull, Paint, Point
- Pull — why this point matters to the viewer
- Paint — an analogy, story, or example that illustrates it
- Point — the actual takeaway or action step
A three-part sub-bullet structure written under each main point in a video plan, using single-word memory cues instead of full sentences so a creator can speak unscripted while still hitting a hook-then-payoff structure.
Steal forany unscripted talking-head video where the creator needs a memorable structure without reading from a page
How they asked for the click.
VERBAL ASK
11:35product
“This concept of speaking reps is built into the 30 day talking to camera challenge... If you want to join us, the link is in the description below.”
Soft-sells a paid community/challenge as the place to build the practice-rep habit, after already giving the underlying technique away free in the video itself.
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PRIMARY CTAWhere the creator wants you to go next.
OTHER LINKSAlso linked in the description.
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