Healing Humans Requires the Communal Touch
I posted earlier this year about how a recent study showed that a single conversation a day with another human ...
How to Calm Your Stage Fright
What causes your body to jump into an adrenaline response? For most of us, snakes, spiders, and other creepy crawly ...
Are You Optimizing Your Voice?
I'm pleased to include a post by a new member of the PW team, Jessica Cooper, who is an accomplished voice coach ...
The Pursuit of Happiness
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that ...
How Empathetic Are We? Has the Pandemic Turned Us into Trolls?
If, like me, you’re a little worried about the state of humanity post-pandemic, then our Empathy Quiz will be of ...
How to Use Your Negative Bias to Communicate Better
Your brain’s job is to keep you alive in an uncertain world filled with saber-tooth tigers, woolly mammoths, and snakes. ...
Anxiety and the Zen of Public Speaking
This is my third and final piece of this series on the anxiety of public speaking. Adrenaline can cause speakers ...
How to Reduce the Anxiety of Public Speaking
The most common question I get asked about public speaking is, “how do I control (reduce, eliminate) my nerves?” As ...
Is Stress Bad for Speakers?
Is stress bad for humans? The popular view is that stress is bad, but the neurological research shows a more ...
How Are You Going to Add Music to Your Public Speaking?
A high percentage of the population is moved by music, from pop to classical, from global to Baroque. I’ve heard ...
