How to Handle Post-Pandemic Speaking Nerves
Most public speakers whom I’ve been checking in with of late are impatient to get back to face-to-face presentations. And ...
How to Make Your Fear of Public Speaking Work for You
Our thoughts are unruly children, aren’t they? They go where they want, show up when they want, and distract us ...
How to Change Minds with a Speech
What’s the best way to prepare people for change? This question is one that we speakers often ask ourselves, more ...
How to Use Memory to Help with Stage Fright
We know from a good deal of research on memory how unreliable it is, partly because retrieving a memory is ...
Talking to Teens and Other Challenges
According to some new research, our sensitivity to negative expressions and threats varies with age. We’re most sensitive as teens, ...
What To Do Before A Speech
If you’re a long-time reader of this blog, you know that I’m primarily a coach and secondarily a speaker. Lately, […]
Why You Need to Pitch Your Voice Lower
Back in the mid- or early nineties, I was videotaped for the first time, doing some media work for my ...
Why You Need to Breathe
We have two scientists, doctors Krasnow and Yackle, from Stanford at the time the study was done, to thank for ...
How to Handle the Post-Speech Come-down
A recent study sheds light on an important aspect of the speaker’s life – the post-speech end of the adrenaline ...
Three Ways for Speakers to Cope with Stress
Continuing with my theme of the past few blog posts on the nature of the speaking business and what it ...
