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What We Think We Know About Lying Is Wrong

Nick Morgan2017-03-07T04:00:44-05:00March 7, 2017|Audience Interaction, Authenticity, Body Language, Emotion, Fear of Public Speaking, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

A recent study has overturned what we think we know about lying.  Most of us have a pet theory about ...

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The Insider’s Guide to Successful Professional Speaking in 2017

Nick Morgan2017-01-03T04:00:44-05:00January 3, 2017|Authenticity, Branding, Community Building, Current Affairs, Event Planning and Management, Platform, Speaker Bureaus, Speaker Marketing, Successful Speakers, Travel|

Happy New Year to all, and here’s to a successful, passionate, clarity-filled year for all of us as public speakers ...

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How to Reduce Speech Anxiety – or Pre-Election-Results Anxiety

Nick Morgan2019-03-02T06:22:04-05:00November 8, 2016|Body Language, Emotion, Fear of Public Speaking, Non-Verbal Communication, Successful Speakers|

If you’re an American – heck, if you’re anywhere on the globe – you would be pardoned for feeling a ...

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Can You Handle Your Adrenaline? Can Your Audience?

Nick Morgan2019-03-02T08:27:24-05:00August 4, 2016|Audience Interaction, Body Language, Emotion, Fear of Public Speaking, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication, When Things Go Wrong|

Most speakers get to know their adrenaline fight-or-flight response very, very well. To be sure, I’ve met a few speakers ...

The Dangers of Last-Minute Changes to a Presentation

Nick Morgan2015-09-08T13:57:31-05:00September 8, 2015|Audience Interaction, Emotion, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication, Successful Speakers, When Things Go Wrong|

Public speaking means – for most people – stress and a sudden flurry of decision-making under stress. The conference organizer ...

Dealing with the Fear of Public Speaking

Nick Morgan2015-08-18T07:00:19-05:00August 18, 2015|Current Affairs, Emotion, Fear of Public Speaking|

Most of us have heard about a study that claims public speaking is our number one fear. Jerry Seinfeld even made ...

Three Steps to Delivering a Powerful Speech

Nick Morgan2014-09-02T07:00:28-05:00September 2, 2014|Body Language, Charisma, Fear of Public Speaking, Neuroscience|

OK, to kick off the fall speaking season in the best possible way, I’m putting together a couple of studies ...

How Your Unconscious Mind Betrays You – and What You Can Do about It

Nick Morgan2014-07-31T07:00:06-05:00July 31, 2014|Audience Interaction, Fear of Public Speaking, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication, When Things Go Wrong|

Back in the cave person era, by all accounts, we evolved this exquisite mechanism, the fight or flight response, to ...

Manning, the Broncos, and Adrenaline: What Went Wrong? Lessons for Speakers

Nick Morgan2014-02-04T15:01:29-05:00February 4, 2014|Body Language, Current Affairs, Emotion, Fear of Public Speaking, Non-Verbal Communication, When Things Go Wrong|

Watching the first few calamitous minutes of the Super Bowl -- calamitous, at least, for Peyton Manning and the Broncos ...

Stage Fright? Here’s What to Do

Nick Morgan2013-06-25T17:04:48-05:00June 25, 2013|Fear of Public Speaking|

Peak performance requires peak functioning, both mental and physical.  To accomplish that, a little adrenaline helps.  Yet most of us ...