There are actually tools to begin identifying and changing what’s really going on for you before you ever even get to the stage, that make both the speaking and being you, easier.

Is this you?

• aware that you’d like to be speaking to audiences but terrified to start

• afraid that you’ll forget what you want to say and be standing up there naked and stupid

• every time you think of speaking you break out in a cold sweat and start shaking

• you get up to speak and your voice shakes and even worse, you’re not yourself

• avoiding this one thing that you know you’d really like to do
Most of the tools out there teach you how to prepare a speech, or how to write down your tips, and tell you to practice the same speech over and over, which seems like a practical set of tools, but don’t address the ‘you’ part.