“Embracing??” “Exploiting?” Do these sound like words you would use in relation to fear of public speaking, a/k/a stage fright? Probably not. But Joe Kowan, who performed and spoke as part of a TED program said: By thinking about my audience… by embracing and exploiting my problem, I was able to take something that was blocking my Read More
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Learn from Michael Bay’s Public Speaking Panic Attack
NOTE: On the week that I wrote this post, two very high-profile people struggled with panic — in public. Scott Stossel Survives Anxiety The Atlantic‘s cover story, Surviving Anxiety by editor Scott Stossel, is about his “Anxious, Twitchy, Phobic (Somehow Successful) Life.” Stossel’s account of coping with multiple phobias and crippling anxiety is harrowing, yet ultimately inspiring. After all, Read More
You Want to Speak in Public But Fear Is Holding You Back? How to Overcome Your Stage Fright
Whether your fear of public speaking manifests as a tortured sense of self-doubt or a full-blown case of the hives, FEAR is one of the experiences public speakers hate most. These posts, from 100 Top Public Speaking Tips, will help you put fear in its place! Public Speaking Tip 9: Embrace the Stress What, besides experience, is Read More
Public Speaking Tip 33: Don’t Panic about Public Speaking Panic!
Two clients called me recently, both in a panic about panicking. Joe and Stephanie are very different types of people, but they’d had similar experiences. Each had been giving a series of speeches — and getting great feedback — when suddenly, just before another talk, each of them was blindsided by what they described as Read More