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Hello, I'm Matt Abraham's, and I teach strategic communication at Stanford's Graduate School of Business.

Welcome to Think Fast, Talk Smart, the podcast.

For today's episode, we return to one of our podcast key goals, helping people feel

more comfortable and confident in their communication.

With this in mind, we've pulled together insights from three episodes to help us better

understand our nervousness

and provide us with specific tools to manage it. To get started, we need to understand where our

communication apprehension comes from. Then we can explore how our mindset and framing of this

stress can be hacked to help us. Finally, we'll look at specific techniques

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