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Confident public speaking and presentations
Surveys show that more people are scared of having to speak in public than are scared of snakes, spiders, and getting on a plane put together! And I used to be one of them too.
I used to be so worried about speaking in public that I felt physically sick. My stomach churned and I thought I was going to throw up. But I trained myself to get over the nerves. I’ve been told that I now give rather good presentations (and get invited to do so by organisations ranging from colleges and universities to big corporates) and get an enormous buzz out of it as well.
One of the biggest reasons why people lack confidence when speaking is because they haven’t done enough preparation – but you have to know the
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