At a recent speaking event, before the festivities were officially underway, a woman in the audience asked me: “So, are you nervous at all right now? Because you certainly don’t look nervous. I bet you’re not nervous at all, are you? I can’t even imagine”, she streamed. Well, I can’t even imagine either. I am…
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All Public Speaking is NOT Created Equal
Five minutes is really not that long. It takes more than 5 minutes just to get my three daughters from the living room, up our short flight of stairs and into the bathroom to brush teeth at night (often 2X 5 minutes.) You can be five minutes late to a meeting or lunch date and…
3 Ways to Eliminate Public Speaking Anxiety (and other kinds of social anxiety)
My husband and I got married in our (very small) backyard, with forty of our closest friends and family. We wanted it small and intimate. The ceremony was co-created with our guests such that each was invited to bring a reading, item, book, reflection… anything they wanted (a joke began early about performing an interpretive…