How to Conquer Nervousness

The Look & Sound of Leadership

Essential Communications - Tom Henschel

Education, Executive Coaching, Self-improvement, Executive Presence, Careers, Business, Management

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Before testifying in a high-stakes case, a theorist and his coach swap horror stories about their nerves hijacking them and the lessons they learned. Tom’s top four idea for conquering nervousness: Write happy endingsCelebrate incremental improvementExternalize your nasty voiceIgnore your nervesApplying these techniques using our free PDF about mastering nerves. The clip of Emma Stone battling her anxiety before a global audience is here. Each month, we share additional tools in our m...

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone. Tom here. A word before we begin. Recently, leaders from a manufacturing company
0:07.0	reached out to me about providing some training to their senior directors who report to their
0:11.3	executive staff. I do this sort of training a lot, and I told them about the topics that I
0:16.1	usually deliver, sorting and labeling, answering questions powerfully, executive thinking, storytelling,
0:23.0	and nervousness. I told them I would send them the PDFs that I used to support all those topics.
0:28.3	So after the call, I go into my folder, it has all the PDFs, and I realize, much to my surprise,
0:34.6	we have never made a PDF that supports my ideas about nervousness.
0:39.4	And I really couldn't believe it because in my decades of coaching,
0:43.9	nervousness is one of the topics that I talk about almost more than anything else.
0:48.0	So my team and I jumped right on it.
0:50.0	We created a PDF about conquering nervousness.
0:53.1	It's in our tool spin right now.
0:55.0	It's free.
0:55.7	Please help yourself.
0:56.6	The link is in the show notes.
0:58.2	To add depth to the ideas in this PDF,
1:01.4	I'm re-broadcasting an episode from April 2024
1:04.6	that was originally titled Mastering Nerves.
1:07.8	I hope it's helpful.
1:09.2	I'll jump back in with this month's gratitude, but meanwhile, here's the show. Enjoy.
1:17.3	Welcome back to the look and sound of leadership. An ongoing series of executive coaching tips
1:22.7	designed to help you be perceived in the workplace the way you want to be perceived. I'm Tom Henschel, your executive coach, and today we're talking about how to conquer nervousness.
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