Orsi Toth-Pal works as the Senior Platform Strategy Partner at Yahoo! She also founded the Advertising Industry Debate Club. Jessica Koncz is the Founder and CEO of two companies, New Crave Media and Eatsee. She’s also the winner of LAUNCH Festival Sydney 2018, and a Launch Accelerator LA14 alumna.

In today’s episode, we talk about debates! Orsi shares how the debate club started, Jess explains how to be a debate judge and I’ll tell you all about my nerve-wracking experience in joining a public debate! 

Join Andy and his friends, Orsi and Jess, on another trip to The Flip Side!

Click to join the Debate Club: https://www.meetup.com/advertising-industry-debate-club-sydney

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14029670/

Follow Orsi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/orsi-t%C3%B3th-p%C3%A1l-37a13449/

Follow Jess: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-koncz/

Chapters:

00:00 Intro

00:20 Meet Orsi Toth-Pal

01:20 Meet Jessica Koncz

03:20 Starting A Debate Club

07:20 Growing Your Network

10:15 The Third Debate

11:25 The Debate Roles

13:10 Our Debate Experience

14:30 Moving The Needle

16:10 Know Your Judges

17:15 The Pros & Cons Of Going First

18:45 Formal Debate Structure

20:15 What I’ve Learned From A Debate

23:00 Information Overload

24:00 Working With A Partner

26:25 Slowing Down

28:10 Judging Experience

29:00 Dismantling The Points

31:50 Swaying The Judges

32:30 The Rebuttal Strategy

33:40 The Predictive Strategy

34:40 Debate Sponsorships

36:40 Finding An Audience

38:25 Growing The Debate Community

40:50 The Advertising Industry Debate Club

41:50 The Power Of Debate

43:30 Outro