Welcome to this week's episode of the Modern Mentor podcast. I'm your host, Rachel Cook.

Today I'll be sharing my favorite strategies for keeping my confidence up when I'm speaking

or presenting remotely.

Snakes and roller coasters, these are the literal things of my nightmares.

Slimy, slithery, twisty loopy, these adjectives for me represent the fastest path to cold sweats.

But for the majority of people, the most fear-inducing idea of all

is speaking or presenting publicly. In fact, the National Institute of Mental Health reports

that public speaking anxiety, known as glossophobia, affects about 73% of us. I'm one of the lucky

ones who's never really feared public speaking,

but we've been presenting remotely these past several months, and it's made me realize

just how many tricks and tools that have enabled me to speak confidently in public are no

longer available to me. Things like stages, microphones, and being physically present with an audience or team,

not to mention professional child care, have all served me well as a speaker.

And now, like many, I'm finding myself presenting regularly by way of a variety of virtual

meeting platforms.

The game has really changed.

I've heard from several listeners that

presenting remotely with confidence, whether to your team, your company, a client, or a

prospective employer, has become a challenge. So today, I'll share a set of tips I've picked up

in recent months, and I hope you find them as useful as I have. Start by setting yourself up for

success. If you're still working remotely, as much of the American workforce is, there's a lot

about your setting you can't control. You may be in a tiny apartment in a city full of background

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