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, oh, welcome to today's episode of shrink for the shy guy.

I'm Dr. Aziz.

And today, we're going to be diving further into the skill and the art of public speaking,

of how to speak in front of a group and how to do it really well.

Because in the last episode, we were interviewing Danielle Louise Ross, and we continued

with that in today's episode, and we talked a lot about the fear.

And so if you haven't listened to that, go back and listen to that interview because there's

some powerful tips in there about how to overcome your fear, how to shift the way you see

nervousness and mastery and public speaking and the audience so that it's not so

terrifying. So it's not such an insurmountable obstacle or mountain to climb. But it's really

something that you can just develop step by step by step, which is absolutely the case.

And as you know, I myself was terrified of public speaking.

The very first time I tried to do it, I was in front of a big group of people, maybe 70,

and it was in a college course.

And I'd never really done it before that.

I went to a small high school, and I always kind of fumbled my way through presentations,

and there was a very small group, and I knew everyone.

So my first public speaking, like, hey, here's a bunch of people looking at you.

I went up there and I had all my slides and everything and I looked at the audience.

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