Ep 217. 4 Things that Helped my Confidence Public Speaking

The Calmer You Podcast

Chloe Brotheridge

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 688 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

I recently did my first bit of in-person public speaking in a while - in this episode I'm sharing 4 things I did to help myself to feel confident and excited about speaking.

Check out my new live course 'Speak Easy - 4 Weeks to More Confident Public Speaking' at www.calmer-you.com/speak - we start live on 30th April but I'll run this again soon if you're listening to this after this date!

Or you can get my FREE Public Speaking Checklist at www.calmer-you.com/speaking

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Calmar You podcast. This is your host, Chloe Brotheridge. I'm a coach,
0:08.3	a hypnotologist, and I'm the author of The Anxiety Solution and Brave New Girl. And this podcast is all
0:14.9	about helping you to become your calmest, happiest and most confident self.
0:19.9	Hi folks. Hope you're doing well today. So today I'm talking about
0:23.4	public speaking and the things that have helped me recently to feel more confident with public speaking.
0:31.1	Now, those of you that have followed me for a while will know, I may have mentioned a few times
0:35.8	before that public speaking was a massive problem for me.
0:41.5	And yet it was something that has, you know, in having overcome this sphere and feeling so much better about it now,
0:51.6	been such a huge part of my career and my work and, yeah,
0:56.5	the things that I really enjoy in my work now day to day. Now, I remember years ago, before a job
1:03.0	interview, I was nervous for basically two weeks solidly. It felt like that. Day and night, I had this huge amount of
1:13.8	adrenaline in my body. I lost my appetite. I had butterflies in my stomach constantly. I'd get
1:21.4	these kind of like nervous shivers coming over me. And I was constantly running to the loo. I lost weight as a result of this
1:30.1	basically anxiety about this interview. And that was quite a typical experience for me. Any kind of
1:37.0	public speaking, even introducing myself around a table in front of a group of people would have me feeling like my heart
1:46.5	would race, my mind just felt like it was going to shut down and go blank, that sort of thing.
1:53.4	And I remember another experience where I was getting up to speak in front of a group of
1:59.2	about probably 30 people or so. And I was sitting at the
2:02.9	back of the room and I had to walk past everyone to the front of the room and stand in front of the
2:06.7	room to speak. And as I got up to speak, I had just the most powerful sensation of utter terror
2:16.3	that I think I've ever had. I felt as I was going to pass out. It went
2:21.4	kind of white and fuzzy in front of my eyes, a bit like it does. If you've ever fainted,
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