Latest Glossophobia Podcast Episodes
An Easy Way to Introduce Yourself When You Start a Presentation
Fearless Presentations - April 22, 2024 12:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 84 ratingsFor the last few episodes, I've shown you how to start a speech, how to design a speech, and, last week, how to end a speech. But before we end this series, I wanted to cover one often-overlooked part of creating a compelling presentation. Today, I'm going to show you how to introduce yourself ...
7 Professional Ways to End Your Speech
Fearless Presentations - April 15, 2024 12:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★ - 84 ratingsThis week, we're continuing our series on how to design presentations that are more engaging for your audience. When your audience enjoys your speeches, they will give you positive feedback, which will boost your confidence. A couple of episodes ago, I showed you a few fun ways to start a speec...
A Simple Way to Design a Presentation So You Are Less Nervous Presenting
Fearless Presentations - April 01, 2024 13:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★ - 84 ratingsLast week, we started a new series on how to design presentations that are more engaging for your audience. When your audience enjoys your speeches, they will give you positive feedback, which will boost your confidence. Last week,, we covered seven ways to start your speech. Today, we'll cover...
A Few Ways to Start a Presentation (Presentation Starters) to Win Over a Tough Audience
Fearless Presentations - March 25, 2024 12:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 84 ratingsThis week we're starting a new series on how to design presentations that are more engaging for your audience. When your audience enjoys your speeches, they will give you positive feedback. When that happens, you confidence will go up. In this session, we'll cover a few different ways to start ...
Tips for Hybrid Workshops (Both In-Person and Virtual Attendees)
Fearless Presentations - October 09, 2023 12:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 84 ratingsLast week, I recovered a few tips for better virtual training sessions where your entire group is participating through Zoom or Teams. This week, though, I'm covering tips to help you lead better hybrid training sessions. These are sessions where some of your team is sitting in a room with you w...
Best Practices and Tips for Virtual Instructor-Led Training
Fearless Presentations - October 02, 2023 12:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 84 ratingsThe last few weeks I've been traveling around delivering a series of in-person training sessions all over the world. And I noticed that when I'm delivering this training in major urban areas like Washington DC, Chicago, New York, and the like, inevitably, my client will turn on a Teams meeting o...
Nothing Gets Sold Until the Story Is Told with Steve Multer
Fearless Presentations - September 25, 2023 22:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 84 ratingsSTEVE MULTER is a veteran corporate spokesman and trainer for more than 100 global brands, including Cisco, Panasonic, Siemens, Fujifilm, HP, NTT Data, and Bayer. He is known as the chief storytelling officer for these and other brands. I wanted to have him on as a guest to give us a few tips on...
Proper Conference Room Setup Makes Presenting Much Easier
Fearless Presentations - September 11, 2023 13:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 84 ratingsToday, I'm covering the importance of proper room setup and how the room that you present in will either make you more nervous or help you deliver a better presentation. The way that you set up the room before you even say a word has a lot of impact on how well you present. It also will determin...
The 5 Most Common Myths About Public Speaking Debunked
Fearless Presentations - September 04, 2023 12:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★ - 84 ratingsOn this episode, I'm going to cover a few of the biggest myths about public speaking. These are some of the things that well-meaning friends, family, and even coaches will suggest to us that are absolutely wrong. So, if you are doing any of these things, you may actually be causing yourself to b...
Stop the Errs, Uhhms, and Other Filler Words During a Presentation
Fearless Presentations - August 28, 2023 12:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★ - 84 ratingsOn this episode, I'm going to cover the dreaded errs and uhms. Yup, those filler words that High School teachers and Toasting Clubs try to eliminate from the speeches of their students and members. However, I think you will be shocked to learn that just about everything that you have ever learne...
How to Organize Business Presentation Training for Your Group
Fearless Presentations - August 21, 2023 12:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★ - 84 ratingsHave a team that needs to build communication skills as a group? Well, just as an FYI, business presentation training is quite different from university-level public speaking classes or what you might pick up at a tasting club. For instance, a good presentation that you deliver for your friends ...
How to Make Boring Speeches More Interesting and Exciting
Fearless Presentations - August 14, 2023 12:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★ - 84 ratingsThis week, I'm going to give you my secret to delivering boring presentations. In fact, this secret is the absolute most important thing that you have to know to have every audience fall in love with you as a speaker. I'll give you a hint... There actually is no such thing as a boring speech or...
Examples of Presentation Handouts
Fearless Presentations - August 07, 2023 12:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★ - 84 ratingsThis week, I'm going to give you a few simple ways to create some very effective presentation handouts. A couple are really easy and can be used effectively for internal presentations. The last one is the technique that I use when I create workshops and training programs. It takes a little more ...
How to Overcome Glossophobia (An Irrational Fear of Public Speaking) Part 2
Fearless Presentations - July 31, 2023 12:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★ - 84 ratingsThis is part two of a two-part series on Glossophobia -- the fear of public speaking. Last week, we talked about what this phobia is and what causes it. This week, I will give you a few of my best tips to overcome this fear -- even if you fall into the camp of having a full-blown phobia of publi...
How to Overcome Glossophobia (An Irrational Fear of Public Speaking) Part 1
Fearless Presentations - July 24, 2023 12:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★ - 84 ratingsWant to know how to overcome glossophobia? Does stage fright sometimes make you pass up opportunities in your career? Do you feel like you have an irrational fear of public speaking? You are not alone! Glossophobia, or the fear of public speaking, is very common. I’ve been in the presentation s...
What Causes the Fear of Public Speaking?
Fearless Presentations - July 17, 2023 12:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★ - 84 ratingsThis week we're getting back to how to reduce public speaking fear. And on this episode, I give you the four main causes of public speaking fear. Once you understand why you are feeling the way you are, it becomes a lot easier to reduce that nervousness. As I cover each of the four causes of ne...
How to Get Paid to Speak (Even If You Are Still a Little Nervous.) Part 3 of 3
Fearless Presentations - July 10, 2023 12:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 84 ratingsA couple of weeks ago, I started a series on how to get paid to speak. I mentioned that a professional speaker is just a person who gets paid to give a presentation. So, teachers, trial attorneys, salespeople, and really any supervisor or manager who leads internal presentations are professional...
How to Get Paid to Speak (Even If You Are Still a Little Nervous.) Part 2 of 3
Fearless Presentations - July 03, 2023 12:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★ - 84 ratingsLast week I started a series on how to get paid to speak. And if you are a new listener to Fearless Presentations, you might be thinking, how can I get paid to speak if I'm scared to death to stand up in front of a group? If that is the case, just go back to some of the earlier episodes for tips...
How to Get Paid to Speak (Even If You Are Still a Little Nervous.) Part 2 of 2
Fearless Presentations - July 03, 2023 12:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★ - 84 ratingsLast week I started a series on how to get paid to speak. And if you are a new listener to Fearless Presentations, you might be thinking, how can I get paid to speak if I'm scared to death to stand up in front of a group? If that is the case, just go back to some of the earlier episodes for tips...
How to Get Paid to Speak (Even If You Are Still a Little Nervous.)
Fearless Presentations - June 26, 2023 12:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 84 ratingsI'm starting a new series on how to get paid to speak this week. And I know that a lot of our regular listeners subscribe to the podcast for tips and tricks to reduce nervousness and become more comfortable in front of a group. However, public speaking is one of (if not THE) highest-paid profess...
How to Get Paid to Speak (Even If You Are Still a Little Nervous.) Part 1 of 2
Fearless Presentations - June 26, 2023 12:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 84 ratingsI'm starting a new series on how to get paid to speak this week. And I know that a lot of our regular listeners subscribe to the podcast for tips and tricks to reduce nervousness and become more comfortable in front of a group. However, public speaking is one of (if not THE) highest-paid profess...
How to Get Paid to Speak (Even If You Are Still a Little Nervous.) Part 1 of 3
Fearless Presentations - June 26, 2023 12:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 84 ratingsI'm starting a new series on how to get paid to speak this week. And I know that a lot of our regular listeners subscribe to the podcast for tips and tricks to reduce nervousness and become more comfortable in front of a group. However, public speaking is one of (if not THE) highest-paid profess...
How to Get Audience Participation in a Presentation
Fearless Presentations - June 12, 2023 12:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★ - 84 ratingsFor the last couple of weeks, I've given you a series of presentation enhancers -- things that make good presentations better. This week, I'm going to cover a way that you can enhance persuasive speeches exponentially. If you are trying to win your audience to your way of thinking, then audience...
7 Ways to Make Your Speech More Interesting Part 2
Fearless Presentations - June 05, 2023 12:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★ - 84 ratingsLast week I started a two-part series on how to make a presentation more interesting. If you recall from the first episode, I mentioned that you can be the most charismatic and confident speaker on the planet. But if your presentation is boring or complicated or uninteresting, your skill as a sp...
7 Ways to Make Your Speech More Interesting-Part 1 of 2
Fearless Presentations - May 29, 2023 18:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★ - 84 ratingsI know that most people who listen to or download the show are looking for ways to reduce nervousness and feel more confident when they speak. However, there is a HUGE part of the presentation process that often gets overlooked that is critical to help you communicate better and more confidently...
Low Risk Venues Where You Can Practice Your Presentations - Part 2 of 2
Fearless Presentations - May 22, 2023 12:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★ - 84 ratingsOne of the biggest causes of public speaking fear and nervousness is having too much time in between each speech. I mentioned last week that if you only drove a car once a year, each time you got behind the wheel, you'd be nervous. If you are a comfortable driver, it is because you get behind t...
Low Risk Venues Where You Can Practice Your Presentations - Part 1 of 2
Fearless Presentations - May 15, 2023 12:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 84 ratingsOne of the biggest causes of public speaking fear and nervousness is having too much time in between each speech. For folks who only give a single presentation each month, once every few months, or once a year, there is a good chance that each time you stand up to present, you will be nervous. ...
Know Your Audience
Fearless Presentations - May 08, 2023 12:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 84 ratingsWe often hear the term "Know Your Audience," but what does that really mean? In this episode, I take you through a step-by-step process to help you customize every speech to the needs of the specific audience you are presenting to. Basically there are four things you need to know about your au...
How to Calm Down Before a Speech
Fearless Presentations - May 01, 2023 12:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 84 ratingsWant to calm down before a presentation? Even if you don’t regularly experience the fear of public speaking, just before you start a speech, it is easy to feel anxious. This initial nervous energy can cause a speaker to have a shaky voice, dry mouth, or sweaty palms just before a presentation. T...
Public Speaking Fear - Part 2 of 2
Fearless Presentations - April 24, 2023 14:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★ - 84 ratingsThis week is part 2 of a 2-part series on public speaking fear. Last week, I showed you where this fear comes from. We also cover five things that people do to try to reduce the nervousness that actually causes more nervousness. This week, I first show you how to lower the risk of failure when y...
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