Hi and welcome to this week's Amazing If podcast. We're Helen and Sarah, the founders of Amazing If,

a business which is all about helping people to have happy careers. And this week we're

continuing our series on Confidence Gremlins,

where we're talking about the top 10 confidence gremlins that get in our way at work.

And our episode today is going to focus on a fear of presenting.

So before we go into a fear of presenting and how it holds you back and how it makes us all feel,

just a quick reminder on what confidence gremlins are and why they matter.

So the first thing to say is we all have confidence gremlin.

This isn't something that is just about a fear if you're starting out in your career,

even if you're kind of senior.

We've all got these voices in our heads that are telling us we maybe can't do something

or we're not going to be successful at something.

But essentially they hold us back. And they matter because they stop us doing things that are going to help us get

better in our jobs. And a lot of the time, they're just assumptions that we carry around, often for

quite a long time in our career, and we never actually test those things. And the real trick is

understanding what your confidence gremlin is so that you can do something about it. And the real trick is understanding what your confidence

Gremlin is so that you can do something about it. And that's what this series is all about.

It's about telling you what the 10 most common ones are and sharing our ideas and tips to

help you to overcome them. So on to A Fear of Presenting. I'm going to be talking to Sarah

about how A Fear of Presenting has potentially come up in her career and we'll be sharing some ideas for you.

So Sarah, what are your thoughts on how a fear of presenting can hold people back at work?

Well, I think there are a couple of things. I think the first thing is lots of people don't like presenting.

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