Owning It: Why we fear public speaking and how to break it with Pat Divilly

Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast

Caroline Foran

Overwhelm, Education, Health & Fitness, Panic Attack, Caroline Foran, Stress, Anxiety

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This week I'm joined by Pat Divilly for a brilliant discussion around the topic of public speaking. It was his biggest fear, it's one of mine - STILL! - and I know it's something that affects so many readers of both Owning It and The Confidence Kit. Pat Divilly is an author, public speaker and all round legend - he takes complex ideas and articulates them in a way that is just so easy to digest and I feel we are on the very same page when it comes to things like acceptance and working with ourselves rather than against ourselves. Pat also shares his own story of anxiety, along with chats about imposter syndrome and as is always my goal - we share some very practical tips and exercises to get you feeling a little bit less afraid at the prospect of public speaking - even if that just means speaking up in a meeting or at a social event. Pat doesn't claim to be fearless, and neither do I, but despite our fears and anxieties we can still forge ahead. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to owning it.
0:01.7	If you would like to support the series, the best thing you can do is just tell a friend or better yet share it on social media.
0:08.0	If you really, really want to support, you can subscribe to me on Substack where I write a weekly column.
0:13.0	Listeners of the pod get a 20% discount forever at carolinephorun.substack.com.
0:18.7	Thank you.
0:23.7	Hello, dear listeners, and welcome back to owning it, the anxiety podcast, with me, your host,
0:29.9	Caroline Forin, author of Owning It and The Confluence Kit and Proud Mama to the Owning a podcast,
0:36.9	which is starting to really grow and take flight.
0:41.0	And I'm proud of it.
0:41.9	And I'm so grateful for all of the response and the messages.
0:45.1	So thank you so much for listening so far.
0:47.8	I hope you've been enjoying the series.
0:49.6	There is a fair bit more to come.
0:51.8	Today, my intro, I'm keeping it super short and sweet because there is so
0:55.5	much in my conversation with my guest who is Pat Dively that I don't think you're going to want
0:59.9	to hear very much from me anyway. He has so much to say he's, well, I'm annoyed at him because he
1:05.6	completely outed me and the fact that I don't have any fancy high-tech recording podcasty studio stuff, we literally
1:12.4	recorded on a rooftop of a car park because he's so busy and it's very hard to pin him down
1:17.9	and he had some time in between meetings so I was like, let's do it here. We were so deep in chats
1:22.5	about everything from public speaking which was the theme to his own story and his own experience of anxiety to
1:28.8	acceptance and everything like that, that we were just so engrossed we didn't notice the fact
1:33.8	that about three different helicopters went over our heads and it just got a little bit noisy
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