Fearless Presentations
Want to eliminate public speaking fear and become a more poised and confident presenter and speaker? Fearless Presentations is the answer. This podcast is based on our famous two-day presentation skills class offered in cities all over the world. Each week, we offer free public speaking tips that help you develop the skill to present with poise when you deliver presentations. This is the fastest, easiest way to eliminate public speaking fear.
Episodes
313 episodes
How to Be a Motivational Speaker and Get Paid to Speak
Public speaking is one of (if not THE) highest-paid professions in the world.In this episode, I'll dispel the myth about what a professional speaker is. Basically, a professional speaker is just a person whom someone has paid ...
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What Is the Best Way to Conquer Public Speaking Fear in 2025?
This week, I explain the difference between the different formats of public speaking training in 2025. Communication has changed a lot in the last decade, and you now have every piece of information ever printed in the world at your fingertips....
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How to Stop Saying Um When Presenting
In his episode, we're going to talk about filler words and how to reduce the negative fillers that can be annoying. Fillers come in a few different formats. Some are just sounds. These fillers are the ones that, when we do them, we tend to get ...
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Reduce Nervousness Speaking If English Is Not Your First Language
On this episode, I cover seven easy ways for ESL presenters (presenters who present in English but English is their second language) to reduce nervousness. If English is your first language, don't worry, because most of the tips will help you a...
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How to Overcome Stage Fright
In his episode, I'm getting back to our roots -- so to speak. The topic is How to Overcome Stage Fright. In the past, we've covered different forms of this performance anxiety, like Imposter Syndrome, and I've covered how to reduce public speak...
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PowerPoint Tips-The 10 Biggest PowerPoint Mistakes and How to Fix Them
If you are scanning the internet for PowerPoint tips, it’s most likely because something has happened recently that wasn’t ideal. Perhaps you stood up in front of a group and forgot what you were going to say. Or, maybe, you got tongue-tied dur...
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How to Win High Level Shortlist Interviews (Sales Presentations) Part 12
This is lesson number 12 of our 12-lesson series on how to win group sales presentations. One of the myths that we tackled in one of the earlier episodes was that the PowerPoint slideshow itself is the shortlist presentation. That ...
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How to Win High Level Shortlist Interviews (Sales Presentations) Part 11
This is lesson number 11 of our 12-lesson series on how to win group sales presentations. So far, we've covered a lot of the foundational concepts of group selling skills and ways to get buying committees to buy from your team afte...
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How to Win High Level Shortlist Interviews (Sales Presentations) Part 10
This is episode 10 of our 12-episode series on how to win group sales presentations. So far in the first 9 episodes, we've covered a lot of the foundational concepts of group selling skills. And we've spent a lot of time on how val...
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How to Win High Level Shortlist Interviews (Sales Presentations) Part 8-9
This is episode eight and nine of our 12-episode series on how to win group sales presentations. So far, we've covered a lot of the foundational concepts of group selling skills. And we've spent a lot of time on how valuable case studies or suc...
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How to Win High Level Shortlist Interviews (Sales Presentations) Part 7
This is episode seven of our 12-episode series on how to win group sales presentations. Before the Christmas and New Years break, the last couple of sessions were about inserting case studies into your presentation as evidence that your potenti...
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How to Win High Level Shortlist Interviews (Sales Presentations) Part 6
This is episode six of our 12-episode series on how to win group sales presentations. For the last couple of weeks, we talked about how a case study is a story or example of how you've helped other clients solve similar problems to what this cl...
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How to Win High Level Shortlist Interviews (Sales Presentations) Part 5B
This is 2nd half of episode five of our 12-episode series on how to win shortlist presentations or other types of group sales presentations. Last week, we talked about how a case study is a story or example of how you've helped other clients so...
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How to Win High Level Shortlist Interviews (Sales Presentations) Part 5
This is episode five of our 12-week series on how to win shortlist presentations or other types of group sales presentations. Last week, we talked about how you can change the way that you introduce each team member when you present so that you...
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How to Win High Level Shortlist Interviews (Sales Presentations) Part 4
This is episode four of our 12-week series on how to win shortlist presentations or other types of group sales presentations. Last week, I gave you ten things you can do when preparing or delivering these presentations that will help you keep c...
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How to Win High Level Shortlist Interviews (Sales Presentations) Part 3
This is episode three of our 12-week series on how to win shortlist presentations or other types of group sales presentations. Last week, I briefly overviewed the five biggest secrets I've discovered about these high-level sales presentations. ...
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How to Win High Level Shortlist Interviews (Sales Presentations) Part 2
This is episode two of our 12-week series on how to win shortlist presentations or other types of group sales presentations. Last week, I explained what these presentations were and how I first got exposed to them. Just as a review, a Shortlist...
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How to Win High-Level Shortlist Interviews (Sales Presentations) Part 1
This week, we start a new series on how to win Shortlist Presentations or Shortlist Interviews. Basically, this is a very high level sales presentation. Companies will often submit a proposal to a potential customer or client. The potential cus...
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Deliver Presentations So That Your Audience Perceives You as the Expert
One of the real fears that many speakers have is that they don't feel like they are an "expert" on the topic. It actually leads to what some people call imposter syndrome.In this episode, I'm going to help you reduce that anxiety. Espec...
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A Few Ways to Make Your Presentations More Interesting for Your Audience Part 4 of 4
This is part four of a four-part series on how to make your presentations more interesting. So far, we spent the first couple of weeks cover my seven "impact ideas" which are fun things to add into presentations to jazz them up. La...
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A Few Ways to Make Your Presentations More Interesting for Your Audience Part 3 of 4
This is part three of a four-part series on how to make your presentations more interesting. This week, we cover audience participation -- how to get your audience to help you deliver your presentation. When you do audience participat...
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A Few Ways to Make Your Presentations More Interesting for Your Audience Part 2 of 4
This is part two of a four-part series on how to make your presentations more interesting. If you recall, last week, I mentioned that there are two major components of a fantastic speech. First, you have to have good content that t...
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A Few Ways to Make Your Presentations More Interesting for Your Audience Part 1 of 4
We've spent the last few months covering ways to reduce nervousness and the last couple of weeks uncovering a few low-risk venues to practice presenting. For the next few weeks, I'm going to show you how to make your presentations more fun and ...
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Low Risk Venues to Practice Public Speaking Part 2 of 2
This is part two of a two-part series about low-risk venues where you can practice public speaking. In the introduction last week, I mentioned that the absolute best place to practice public speaking is in a public speaking class w...
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Low Risk Venues to Practice Public Speaking Part 1 of 2
One of the most common questions that I get as a public speaking coach is, "Where can I go to practice speaking?" It is usually a good idea to practice your presentation skills somewhere that is more low risk than in front of a big client, or y...
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