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Talking About Your Gap

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Talking About Your Gap
Starting from Where You Actually Are
6 MINTalking About Your Gap
What you'll learn
  • →Build the one-sentence answer to the question "What were you doing during that gap?"
  • →Learn the structure: what happened, what you learned, what you're ready for now.
  • →Practice it until it feels natural in your mouth — not rehearsed, not defensive.
Proof task

Don't just watch. Do.

Write your gap sentence. Read it out loud three times. Then say it to one person — a friend, a mirror, your phone's voice memo. The first time you say it out loud is the hardest. Get past that today.

Chapters

Jump to a moment.

  • 0:00The hook
  • 1:15The pattern
  • 2:45The interrupt
  • 4:30Practice scenario
  • 5:30The proof task
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