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Rhetrix for Professionals

The same ladder. Your rooms.

Four levels, 61 short lessons, one piece of real homework and one recorded rep each, and every rep graded on the Command Scale within minutes. Add Noah live twice a month, in a room of professionals only. Built for the meeting, the interview, the pitch and the hard conversation, not the classroom.

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How a week goes

A lesson, a rep, a grade. Then Noah, if you want him.

A lesson from Noah
Sixty to ninety seconds on one framework he teaches in the room: Point, Picture, Point; the buffer; the four levers; the ask without the cushion. Sixty-one of them, in order.
Homework in your week
One thing to do where it counts: the update at work in that shape, the "but" swapped for "and", the voicemail you would normally email.
A rep, recorded in the browser
Sixty seconds at the start of the ladder, five minutes cold at the end. Audio only, scored within minutes, then deleted. Nothing but numbers leaves your browser for loudness, pitch and presence.
The grade, in Noah’s voice
Nine skills, four bands each, and one or two lines about your own words: what worked, what missed, the one thing to try next. Pace is judged thought by thought against your own normal.
Noah live, twice a month
Two 30-minute feedback sessions a month on a video call, in a group of up to 5 professionals at the same level, or one on one. The grading is done before the call, so the half hour is spent on the room.
A note every Sunday
What you recorded, which bands moved, where to focus, and once eight professionals are on your level, where you stand against them. Finished on tape, never on the calendar.
The rooms

Same frameworks. Your examples.

Students on the ladder practice the book report and the college interview. Professionals get the same 61 lessons with the homework and the reps rewritten for the places you actually have to speak.

The meeting
The update that lands in ninety seconds, the question you finally ask, the floor you keep with a pause instead of an "um".
The interview
"Tell me about yourself" as a two-minute talk, the failure question answered straight, the follow-up you did not see coming.
The pitch
A hook, one through line, a close they repeat in the hallway, and the strongest argument against you named before they say it.
The hard conversation
Avoid, explode, navigate. The complaint turned into a request. "And" instead of "but". The ask without the cushion.
The toast, the eulogy, the board
A story with a point, a scene the room can walk into, the pause before the payoff, and the last line landed on a period.
The camera and the phone
Eyes on the lens, light on the face, the voicemail in four pieces, the video interview where nobody can read your hands.
The ladder

Four levels, each finished on tape.

Level 1 · Show up, speak up, follow through
Foundations
Stand up and talk about yourself for 60 seconds, prepared, notes in hand, and land it on a period.
13 lessons · capstone: The 60-second talk
Level 2 · Stories and conversation
Range
Tell a two-minute story from memory with a deliberate pause and a laugh in it, carry a conversation with follow-ups and a question back, and answer a follow-up they have not seen.
15 lessons · capstone: The story and the follow-up
Level 3 · Persuasion and hard conversations
Influence
Build a three-minute case with two minutes to think, hold a hard conversation with "and" instead of "but", make a real ask without the cushion, and answer the strongest argument against you.
18 lessons · capstone: The three-minute case
Level 4 · Cold talks, interviews and leading the room
Command
Speak cold for five minutes on a prompt you see the moment you start, handle an interview on a video call, on the phone and across a table, and lead a group rep by coaching someone else.
15 lessons · capstone: Five minutes, cold

A rep or two a week puts a level at about a quarter. Nine skills are graded on every rep: pace, pause, filler words, structure, the landing, power, pitch, follow-through, presence.

Foundations: every lesson
Show up
  1. Start here: beat yesterday's version of you · Ten seconds: who you are
  2. Your through line · Your through line, 60 seconds
  3. The handshake and the hello · Walk into the room, 60 seconds
  4. Point, Picture, Point · Something you love, 60 seconds
  5. Land the plane · Sixty seconds, landed
Speak up
  1. The energy spectrum · Fully present, 60 seconds
  2. The four levers · One lever, 60 seconds
  3. Two full seconds · Three deliberate pauses, 60 seconds
  4. Paraverbals · Zero fillers, 60 seconds
  5. The back row · To the back row, 60 seconds
  6. The one contribution · The line you will say, 60 seconds
Follow through
  1. The restart and the recovery · Stop and restart, 60 seconds
  2. The 60-second talk (capstone) · The 60-second talk
Range: every lesson
The story bank
  1. A story with a point · A story with a point, 2 minutes
  2. The ladder: ten seconds, one minute, two minutes · The ladder, 3 minutes
  3. Set the scene · Set the scene, 2 minutes
  4. Deeper, not wider · Two layers deeper, 2 minutes
  5. The pause before the payoff · The funny beat, 2 minutes
  6. Cadence · Cadence, 2 minutes
In conversation
  1. Answers with a hook · How was your weekend, 60 seconds
  2. Follow-up questions that go deeper · Four layers deep, 60 seconds
  3. The buffer · A beat, then the answer
  4. Turn it back · Answer, then turn it back, 60 seconds
  5. The reintroduction · Two hallway lines, 60 seconds
In the room
  1. Eyes and hands · Standing, three points in the room, 2 minutes
  2. End on a downturn · Five things you believe, 2 minutes
Under questions
  1. The follow-up · A story, then the follow-up
  2. The story and the follow-up (capstone) · The story and the follow-up
Influence: every lesson
The hook and the close
  1. Hook them, then close with impact · Hook, through line, close, 2 minutes
  2. One through line · One through line, 2 minutes
  3. Close with impact · The last line first, 2 minutes
Your brand
  1. Five words · Five words, twice, 60 seconds
  2. The brand statement · Your brand statement, 60 seconds
Holding the room
  1. Slow down to land it · Two lines, slowed down, 2 minutes
  2. The four levers on command · Four levers, 2 minutes
  3. Two steps and plant · Two steps and plant, 2 minutes
  4. Bullets, not a script · From three bullets, 2 minutes
Hard conversations
  1. You can only control your reaction · Avoid, explode, navigate, 2 minutes
  2. Trade "but" for "and" · Three disagreements, 60 seconds
  3. The question of curiosity · Curious first, 60 seconds
  4. Assertive, not aggressive · The ask without the cushion, 60 seconds
  5. Turn a complaint into a request · From complaint to request, 60 seconds
  6. The ask · The pitch, 2 minutes
Under pressure
  1. Two minutes to build it · Built in two minutes
  2. The argument against you · Your case, then the pushback
  3. The three-minute case (capstone) · The three-minute case
Command: every lesson
Cold
  1. Tell me about yourself · Cold introduction, 2 minutes
  2. Impromptu · Impromptu, 2 minutes
  3. The hardest question · A time you failed, 2 minutes
The five-minute talk
  1. One thread · One thread, 3 minutes
  2. Five minutes, prepared · Five minutes, prepared
Real rooms
  1. Virtual presence · On camera, 60 seconds
  2. The phone · A voicemail and a greeting, 60 seconds
  3. The online interview · The online interview, 3 minutes
  4. The in-person interview · The in-person interview, 3 minutes
  5. The phone interview · The phone interview, 3 minutes
  6. Marry the story to the question · One story, two questions, 2 minutes
Leading
  1. Coach a colleague · Feedback in three steps, 2 minutes
  2. Intentional before the room · Before the room, 60 seconds
  3. The panel · A decision, then the panel
  4. Five minutes, cold (capstone) · Five minutes, cold
Memberships for professionals

Three memberships. Six- or twelve-month terms.

Billed monthly or paid up front at a discount. A term is a commitment; all sales are final. Memberships open soon: put your name down below and you hear the day they do, with nothing to pay now.

On your own
Rhetrix Tracks
$99 a month
$540 for six months · $999 for twelve
The ladder with the homework and the reps written for your rooms, every rep graded, your portal, the Sunday note. No live time.
Group of professionals, by level
Rhetrix Coaching
$249 a month
$1350 for six months · $2499 for twelve
Tracks plus 2 30-minute sessions a month in a group of up to 5 professionals at the same level. Never in a room with students.
One on one
Rhetrix Coaching 1:1
$399 a month
$2160 for six months · $3999 for twelve
Tracks plus two sessions a month that are Noah and you only. Group slots stay open too.

Not ready for a term? The Speaker Lab is one live hour a month, $25, built for students and open to professionals.

Hear first

Professional memberships open soon.

Put your name down and you hear the day they open: one email with the placement link and the prices. Nothing to pay now, and no card.

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One email on opening day, and nothing else. No card, no call, nothing to pay now.

Questions professionals ask

Am I ever in a session with students?

No. Feedback sessions are booked by room: rooms for professionals and rooms for students, never mixed, and the one-on-one sessions are you and Noah.

Is this for executives?

It is for anyone who has to hold a room: a manager, a nurse, a pastor, a founder, a parent who wants to say the thing at the school board. The ladder starts at a sixty-second talk with notes in hand and ends at five minutes cold with a panel of follow-ups.

What is recorded?

Audio only, in your browser. It is transcribed and scored within minutes, then deleted; the words, the timing and the scores stay in your portal. If you turn the camera on for a rep, presence is scored from pose landmarks as numbers. No video is stored anywhere.

Do I need to be bad at this?

Placement decides. Six honest answers and a sixty-second cold rep put you on the level where the work starts, and a strong tape moves the pick up. Plenty of professionals who are fine in a meeting start at Range because nobody ever graded their stories.

How long does a level take?

A rep or two a week puts a level at about a quarter. Six months is two levels; a year is the ladder for someone who clears every capstone first time. Nobody moves on the calendar alone.