How Public Speaking Courses Helped Me Overcome My Fear

I’m Doug Staneart — President and CEO of The Leader’s Institute ® and Creator of the Fearless Presentations ® Public Speaking Training Programs. And this is How I Overcame My Fear of Public Speaking (And How You Can Too!) The first thing my public speaking class members often ask me is questions like, “Do you still get…

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In this session, I’m going to cover 10 simple ways to overcome the fear of public speaking. This is a continuation of the 3-step process to eliminate public speaking fear. In that episode, I showed you the process that a nervous speaker should go through to reduce speech anxiety. As a review, the first step…

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When folks ask me what I do for a living, I answer, “I help people eliminate public speaking fear.” It is always fun to watch the looks on their faces when they process what I said. Inevitably, I will typically get a response like, “You do what?” or “How do you do that?” The process…