Hello and welcome to the Calmar You podcast.

This is your host, Chloe Brotheridge.

I'm a coach, a hypnototherapist, and I'm the author of The Anxiety Solution and Brave New

Girl.

And this podcast is all about helping you to become your calmest, happiest and most

confident self.

Hello, hello and welcome to this week's podcast.

I hope you're doing well today.

I am going to be talking about public speaking in this episode.

And what I can see as being the five top reasons that we fear public speaking and how we can start

to overcome them. And when I'm talking about public speaking, I'm really talking about that

in the broadest sense. So it might not be that you're giving a presentation or a speech.

It might be more everyday public speaking like having a phone call in a public

place or even speaking on a team meeting on Zoom or in person, even aspects of public speaking

that can tie in with social anxiety. So being able to tell a story in front of a group of friends around the dinner table,

for example.

So any way that speaking up, being heard, using your voice, speaking to others shows up in your

life, this episode will be relevant for that.

And I was reminded recently of, I think it was the first bit of public

speaking that I ever did as a hypnotherapist. This was probably about 10 years ago or so. And I remember it

was three weeks before doing this talk and I was already nervous. You know, the sort of nerves where it's hard to

sit still, you find yourself fidgeting every time you think about the thing that you're nervous about.

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