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What is up, my friends? Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. My name is Graham Baldwin.

Good to have you here with us today on episode 16. We're going to be talking today all about how you deal with nerves before you speak. I know this is something, this is a question I get all the time from people going, man, I just, Grant, I still get nervous. Is that okay, Grant, do you get nervous? Are you supposed to be nervous? Is that a good thing? Is that a bad thing? We're going to be talking all about that today, why we feel nervous, what to do about that, how you can minimize and eliminate some of those fears and nerves. And also, I'm going to tell you why having those fears and nerves is not necessarily a bad thing. So we're going to be talking all about that today here again in the Speaker Lab podcast, episode 16. Now, before we get into it, let me remind you, we've got a

free workshop, free webinar that we are doing very soon. You're going to want to register for

where we're going to be talking all about the art of speaking. So we're going to be talking

about how you deal with the nerves before you speak, how you practice and rehearse, how you

create and craft a talk, using stories, using humor. How do you actually

give a good presentation? What goes into the art of making a talk really, really good? The talks,

the presentations that you've seen, that you're just like, man, that was just the speaker just

did such a great job of just captivating and entertaining, inspiring, motivating, whatever the goal was for that talk. How do I do that? And so we're going to be talking all about that in an upcoming free workshop. So here's what you can do. If you'd like to join us again, it's totally free. You can go to art of speakingwebinar.com. Again, that is art of speakingwebinar.com. You're not going to want to miss that.

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All right, let's get into this. Today, we're in episode 16 talking all about how do you deal with

nerves before you speak. So let's start off with a quote here. I came across this quote recently

that I thought was quite accurate. But it came from Mark Twain, who actually did quite a bit of public speaking.

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