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Tommy Kramer Coaching Tip #681: A Line From a Song

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A song I wrote a few years ago contains the line, “To refuse to see is the same as being blind.”

This definitely applies to radio, and raises questions:

Do you listen to your own show regularly?
Can you hear the things that you don’t do that well?
If you can, do you work on correcting and upgrading those things?
Do you have a P. D., friend, or talent coach to help you recognize where you can improve, and define what your greatest strengths are?

The point is, you want to eliminate the subpar things, discover what you do really well, then only do those things.

I believe that anyone who wants to become an elite Talent needs that focus.

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Tommy Kramer
Talent Coach
214-632-3090 (mobile)
e-mail: coachtommykramer@gmail.com
Member, Texas Radio Hall of Fame
© 2026 by Tommy Kramer. All rights reserved.

Tommy Kramer Coaching tip #680: What Will YOU Say?

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Here’s how careers are made…

When something happens – something that seemingly everyone is buzzing about – and you make a comment, what will you say that no one else would say?

If you can get past that, and own that, and get to where that’s the way your brain works, you will be a major star.

Read. Watch great movies. Listen to great songs. They all have that in common.

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Tommy Kramer
Talent Coach
214-632-3090 (mobile)
e-mail: coachtommykramer@gmail.com
Member, Texas Radio Hall of Fame
© 2026 by Tommy Kramer. All rights reserved.

Tommy Kramer Coaching Tip #679: Amnesia is a Skill

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The great baseball pitcher and now broadcaster David Cone really caught my ear the other night as I was watching a New York Yankees game.

The day before, the Yankees had led by three runs with two outs in the 9th inning, but ended up losing the game 7-6 in extra innings.
Cone commented, “Amnesia is a skill,” and then went on to explain that no matter how much it hurts to lose a game like that, you have to just put it behind you and move on.

So, if you make a mistake on the air (and you will), just own it, then move forward. People can always tell when you’re flustered or trying to weasel out of an awkward moment. Always.

So just let it go, right the ship, and sail on. Many times in my own on-air career, I flubbed something. It actually got funnier to admit the failure.

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Tommy Kramer
Talent Coach
214-632-3090 (mobile)
e-mail: coachtommykramer@gmail.com
Member, Texas Radio Hall of Fame
© 2026 by Tommy Kramer. All rights reserved.

Tommy Kramer Coaching Tip #678: Talk Less, Mean More

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It seems like everybody’s “stretching” out conversations to an alarming level these days.

And yet, it’s the shortest statements that have the most meaning. Examples:

“And in the end…the love you take is equal to the love you make.” The Beatles. Add anything else to it, and it becomes watered down.

“Walk softly and carry a big stick.” Theodore Roosevelt. He certainly didn’t need any additions to that statement.

“Jesus wept.” The Bible. The saddest passage, to me. No more words necessary.

The lesson: Try to resist that “one more thought” impulse. You’ll find that talking less equals meaning more.

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Tommy Kramer
Talent Coach
214-632-3090 (mobile)
e-mail: coachtommykramer@gmail.com
Member, Texas Radio Hall of Fame
© 2026 by Tommy Kramer. All rights reserved.