Coming to you from the Center for Social Confidence in Portland, Oregon, welcome to shrink for the shy guy, helping men everywhere go from social anxiety to social domination.

With your host, Dr. Raziz.

Hey, welcome today's episode of the show. Today we're going to be diving into something that is incredibly valuable for your life. And it's public speaking. Public speaking is one of the

most important things that you can develop. It is essential to your

career, to your work. If you want to move up in any form, any fashion, you need to be able to speak

to people, whether it's in a small meeting of three or five or seven where you can share your ideas

confidently there or to bigger groups, to presentations,

to sales presentations, conferences,

being able to get in front of a,

if you're a business owner,

being able to go to networking events

or other places in the community

where you can speak in front of people.

Or if you do anything online,

being able to record videos,

which is a form of public speaking,

as well as your personal life is impacted by public speaking, isn't it?

I mean, there's so many opportunities to get out there and share with a group of people

or maybe give a toast at a wedding or any event.

And so often we hold ourselves back out of fear it's one of the biggest fears

and according to some polls it's the biggest fear that we face as people and so we're held back

and it takes a lot of confidence to be able to get out there and speak up. And here's the thing,

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