10 Ways to Reduce Public Speaking Fear (Part 1)

One of the fears of public speaking that comes up the most is, "I'm afraid I will lose my train of thought," or "I'm afraid I will forget what I'm going to say." So in the first session of Fearless Presentations®, our instructors combine the teaching aspect of delivering the 10 tips with a memory skill that helps people improve their memory dramatically in just a few minutes. When participants first experience this skill, they are often amazed at the "magic" that they have just witnessed, but in reality, the memory technique that we teach has been around for over 1000 years. It's just been lost in our modern society. With technology at our fingertips, we don't challenge our brains the way that our ancestors did. The potential is still there inside all of us, but it takes a little practice to tap into this hidden potential. However, when I say "a little practice," that is exactly what I mean. Most class members are able to improve their memory dramatically in less than ten minutes. So, it is an easy skill to master very quickly.

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This is the fearless Presentations podcast, the fastest, easiest way to reduce public speaking fear. I want to absolutely eliminate public speaking here. This podcast is the answer. Here's the guy who literally wrote the book on Phyllis Presentations Done standard. Welcome to the very first Fearless Presentations podcast on Doug Standard. I'm the CEO of the Fearless Presentations Company. And although we're new to podcasting, we're definitely not new to the public speaking business. I give you just a brief little background about myself. I I actually got into the public speaking business a whole lot differently than what most people do. A lot of people that get into this profession and want to be professional speakers. It's because they have a real calling is because they they got up in front of a group at one point in their life and just did such a bang up job that they they continue to do it over and over again and get better and better and better. I was the exact opposite with the very first time I got up in front of a group. I was a basket case. It was horrible, and as a result, I did a tremendous amount of training very early on in my career, and because of that training, I was able to really hone in and develop that skill. And so my passion is really for helping other people develop that same skill. Do do basically what I did, you know, go from a point where you're not necessarily a great speaker and turn into a real world class kind of speaker. So my story when I started out, I was in college and I had an internship with a big oil company. I was. I worked for Atlantic Richfield for the Arco Oil and Gas Company when I was in college, and it was just a three month internship. But it was There was a lot of pressure on it. During that three months, we did some really cool stuff. Like, for instance, I was in the I was in on office in West Texas, and one of the one of my roles was as it was in the acquisitions and divestitures department, and we were selling a lot of oil properties at the time. So here I was like, 20 almost 21 years old, and I was responsible for selling a gas plant, which was gotta cool of me. Not many young kids get to do stuff like that. So I was involved in a lot of really, really big projects and got a ton of experience. Why? At the end of that three month period of time, though, the company wanted us tow fly into Dallas and give a presentation on kind of what we done for the summer. And and the interesting thing about what happened, a couple expire before, that is I was not really nervous in the beginning, you know, giving presentations in high school and college. And I'd always done pretty well. I mean, it was not a phenomenal speaker, but it wasn't a terrible speaker either. And my boss called me into his office about two weeks before I was I was scheduled to do this presentation and he said, Hey, Doug, you know, just got word that they're gonna be reducing the intern program next year. And so since this was my junior year, he said, If you want to be invited back, you know that this presentation is gonna be real critical right now. We had 12 interns, and next year we're probably gonna have about three or four. And and I was so all of a sudden the pressure started to hit where I'm going. Holy crap. This was my chosen career field. This was I. I had made the assumption that, you know, if I got this internship, which I worked really, really hard for and I did a good job that I have my have my career said And being corporate, American, that kind of thing. So anyway, so I so the nervous and started hit a couple weeks before I actually gave the presentation. And when I flew in tow Dallas and and I was just about to deliver the presentation, I walked into the boardroom and this was a board room that was set up for maybe, Well, I mean, it was it was a science for maybe 25 people or so, and I think they were probably 30 or 35 people kind of crammed into it. So it was a little cramped and crowded, and I was sitting around this boardroom table, and when I walked in, I knew I was kind of outclassed anyway because everybody in the room was wearing a jacket and a tie and a formal suit. And at the time I didn't even own a jacket. So I kind of walked in with my with my white button up shirt and a pretty nice time. But still, you know, I was already starting to feel a little bit kind of outclassed. And then the first couple of people that got up to speak did just did a bang up job. The first guy got up and he was telling jokes and as he was kind of delivering his jokes, I'm seeing everything. And holy crap, I have no jokes. And so I'm sitting there scrambling in my head, trying to think of some joke that didn't wasn't offensive to the did the group, and the next girl got up. The next person got up. She was a young lady that that was was a law student, and she had a just a ton of really nice visual aids. She had actually sent down to marketing and had them create a bunch of color visual aids, which at the time was kind of unheard of. This suspect before power point and stuff like that. So so it was so all of a sudden I'm sitting here thinking, Holy crap, I got no jobs, Got no visual aids. And so I was already getting nervous, and I could feel the clam Penis on my own, my poems. And that was a big challenge as well. So I was 1/3 person to speak. The woman who was in charge of the intern program, you know, invited Meteo come up and I speak pretty fast anyway. But when I get nervous for oh, man, I kind of assumed in my presentation. So I had about 15 minutes of prepared speech and I think I probably delivered the entire speech and maybe four minutes, three and 1/2 4 minutes or so, So I just kind of zoom through it. And when I got to the ending, I didn't really have ah, great ending. So I just kind of stopped and and sit down. And I think people were kind of shocked because it went so short and because it had such an abrupt ending that folks were kind of questioning when I said Now is like, Oh my God, is he done it? Is that what's gonna happen? And so I'm sitting there. I'm mortified. I'm sitting looking around the table and I'm thinking, OK, if there's if there's 12 of us in this room and three people are goingto be able to come back or get a permanent position, Man, I probably just blew my chance. Toa kind of get that and the what was what? Immediately after that, though, I I just kind of dwelled on it for a little while. And then I said, You know what? That is never ever, ever gonna happen to me again. I am never going to get at clout class like that. I am never gonna be unprepared for something that's that's gonna help me in my career. And so I started looking for training and I found a training program. Ah, leadership class won't even a public speaking class. But I found a leadership class where a lady was doing leadership coaching and was Texas where I was living at the time, and I actually she had, like, a three month coaching process that I went through and about halfway through that coaching process actually quit my job at the world company that I was working at at the time and ended up going into sales because I figured I could probably make more money doing that within six months. At the time that I had quit my job at the oil company, I was making more money in my bonus checks than when I was making on salary at the oil company. And so I went back to her and I said, Hey, you know, this stuff really works. You know, this communication skills, these people skills, his leadership skills, this stuff really, really works. And so I followed her around for a couple of years, begging her to let me be a sales rep for her. And finally she kind of broke down, and that's how I kind of got into the industry. So basically I was. I was the poster child for what not to do as a leader for what not to do as a speaker, and because of the changes that I've made in my life, I was able to thio become fairly successful in the industry. The fearless Presentations classes is a two day public speaking class, and we teach that in cities all over the United States and Canada and Europe, and we do these about every 234 months or so in each of the major cities. So if you ever want to go to a classic, one additional training than the two day public speaking class is a good way to do it. In each one of these sessions, each one of the podcast we're going toe kind of cover what I like to cover, you know, some kind of technical breakthrough or some kind of technology find that will help us be better speakers and also some skill development as well. Now, sometimes the skill development are gonna be things that I'm gonna be pulling from some of my classes and teacher well. And then other times, it's gonna be interviews with experts in the in the industry. So don't let the name fool you, though the even though we call this the fearless presentations podcast. That's our That's our brand name. And really, we really do help people reduce public speaking fear. It's one of the fastest, easiest ways to help people reduce public speaking. Fears are training programs, and hopefully this podcast will be a big help in that as well. But a lot of times what I think what? People are kind of surprised that when they go through one of our training programs is at the end of it. They go. Holy crap, I'm I'm much better than most everybody else I've ever heard speaking right? So So we cover some really professional kind of techniques in a very short period of time, and so you'll start to pick up on some of those, too, So I would encourage it to subscribe to the podcast. It's one of those things that, as we put new information out, it can be very, very helpful to you it personally in your career and also, if you're trying to coach other people and how to be better public Sears or better leaders, So that could be very, very helpful. So let's start this week with this week's tech fund. Theo Tech Find. This week is an app that you can find on your iPhone or your iPad basically in the in the Apple App store, and it's called NGO Creations e D. U C r a. T. I. O. N s edgy creations. It's a white board application that you can use toe to basically do more spontaneous kind of visual aids in the presentations that you're making. I tell you what some interesting situations that might come up, that where this could be helpful. When I first started doing training programs that were kind of tiny programs, I mean, I was working with 8 10 people, maybe 12 people in a board room. And when you're doing a presentation in a small board room, if you have a big, huge screen set up, it's kind of overwhelming. It doesn't really work well, So what I would have figured out that I could do in some of the smaller settings is to just is I could still use a PowerPoint slideshow. I could still use slide our slide deck. But if I projected that slide deck onto, like a white board or a flip chart, it made it to where I could do more spontaneous things. Like I could take a marker at highlight, something I could write in hand additional information. I could add stuff to the presentation, that kind of thing. So it made the presentations that it was creating a whole lot more intimate, a whole lot, Maur spontaneous to the group that I was presenting with. And since I did that for quite a few years, I got really good at creating those spontaneous types of additions to my presentation. Well, the channel's got when I started speaking too much bigger audiences when I was speaking to 100 or 1000 or £2010 people ah, white board. You mean if you have 10,000 people in your audience and you put a whiteboard upon the stage, it's gonna be very, very difficult for somebody to see it. So this basically takes some of those really cool things that you do with a small group and making applicable for a big group. A swell one of the ways that I've kind of used this is you can take your regular Power Point slide deck and you can turn it into images. You can actually just do a save as, and you can save each one of your slides as an image and then upload that image to too edgy creations. And when you do, you actually got your slide now as a visual late and you've got away now with an iPad or with your iPhone to just kind of right on the slide. You can actually highlight things. You can circle things. You can add additional content to the material, so it makes the whole presentation a whole lot more spontaneous. So take basically. One of the cool things that this Apple allow you to do is to make your bigger types of presentations where the audience is much bigger, make it more intimate, as if it were a much smaller group. So I think you'll get some great. It's a great advantages by using this particular app and go experiment with it, kind of try it out. By the way, if you have other abs or other technical finds that you want toe highlight, just email me at podcast at Pierre Val's presentations dot com, and I might do a segment on that one in one of our future programs. So, Doug, what's today's hot topic? So the hot topic for today is 10 things that you can do to help you reduce public speaking fear. In fact, because there's 10 items were gonna kind of break it down into two separate podcast. So we'll cover five of those things on this particular podcast, and then we'll cover the additional five things on the on the next podcast. These are the five things that you can do to reduce nervous instead of taken right from the first chapter of my book, Fearless Presentations. And this is one of the first things that we tend to talk about. It are two day public speaking class, one of the things that you really want to keep in mind about public speaking fears. It's it's pretty normal. In fact, surveys show that that in the United States anyway, about 95% of population has some type of public speaking fear. So you're in good company if you're if you're listening to this podcast, your your normal anyway. So the really good speakers of the ones who kind of like the old book said You gotta feel the fear and do it anyway. And what's interesting about the skill in public speaking is that the more times that you do it and have a success, the more confidence that you're gonna build as a speaker, and that's really what we kind of teaching our in our coaching sessions as well is that have a serious of successes and it makes it a whole lot easier now to stand up and speak in front of a group. So the very first thing, the very first tip that we're gonna cover is a tip. That kind of basically says that most of stuff that happens to us we get nervous are things that the audience is really going to see anyway. And if you think it's almost kind of common sense, but it not coming practice what? What What tends to happen when we get nervous? Our body tends to change in a lot of different ways. We're going to start sweating in weird places, or we're gonna get those butterflies in our stomach, our hearts going to start racing, get the clammy hands and the shaky hands, and we're gonna start talking faster and all that kind of stuff. So when those kind of things happen, those are very real. Those symptoms are very, very real. We feel those things. But most of those things are things that the audience would never even know had occurred anyway. Like, for instance, if you if you have butterflies in your stomach, you might feel queasy. You might feel like you're gonna throw up. But as long as you don't actually throw up, the audience isn't really gonna know that there was anything wrong. They're not going to see that as a difference. If your heart is racing, you may feel like your heart's gonna be out of our chest. But the audience will never know that. So, ah, lot of the stuff that happens to us when we get nervous are gonna be things that the that the audience will never see anyway. The by the way, some of the things that the audience will say see are things that the that may actually be advantageous to us. Like, for instance, when we get nervous, we tend to speak faster than what we normally would. So if you're talking faster, not only is that a symptom of nervousness, but that's actually a symptom of enthusiasm as well. Eso is moving around Maura. Lot of times when we get nervous, we tend to move around. We might pay, sir, we might do some some some of those nervous tics, but in reality we're actually moving more. That's also a symptom of energy. It's a symptom of enthusiasm. There is a good chance that there's probably at least a few people that are listening to the podcast right now that it's some time in your life. Sometime in your career, you got up to give a presentation, and when you sit down, you're like Oh my gosh, I did horrible. That was the worst experience ever. And then afterwards, people came up to you and said, Oh my God, you're so good at this. You're just like a natural. Well, there's a good chance that in those kind of situations they actually saw your nervousness and perceived it as being energy and perceived it as being enthusiasm. So you can actually use that to your advantage. Ah, lot of people that are in the public speaking industry, public speaking, coaching industry. Anyway, a lot of my competitors, they're going to tell you the exact opposite. They're gonna tell you that when you get nervous, slow down, all right, that's the exact opposite of what you want to dio. If you get nervous getting kind of speed up, that's gonna make you more exciting, it's gonna make you more interesting. It's gonna make people pay attention to you more so that's actually a symptom of nervousness that you can actually use to your advantage. I give you a good example. This in real life when I when I first started as a in sales Anyway, I had been in sales for maybe six months or so, and I got promoted to be a sales manager. First guy I hired was a guy that I was training just like the way I was trained. You know, I took the guy into my office and we kind of went through a sales pitch and went through it, you know, 345 times or so had I did it. And then he I had him do it. And, you know, it felt like we were pretty prepared when we went out to speak to the first quote unquote prospect that the person who was a prospective customer, I had this guy give the presentation and he was so nervous that he just soon through it I mean, it was typically it would take anywhere from 10 minutes 20 minutes or so to kind of go through the presentation, but he beats him through it like lightning speed. And at the end of the presentation, he just kind of looked at the the young lady that he was presenting to, and she paused for a second. And then she looked back. And at this point, I'm thinking, this is so bad. God, I'm gonna get fired. Is my first day as a sales manager and I'm gonna get fired. My first day. Holy crap. What I'm going to do next? I kind of think, and you look back at him. She said, Wow, that sounds pretty good. And I'm I'm shocked. I'm looking around. Going What? Well, did that happen? Right. And she said, Yeah, I don't know. I got to get started. And he pulled out a contract and and, you know, she became one of his first customers and one of the s he was kind of packing up Is his briefcase I Since since he was kind of off away from this little. But I kind of turned to the young lady that had purchased the product. And I said, Hey, just had a curiosity. What was it that may just so interested in this? What? What is it? That kind of puts you over the top. And she said, Well, the count was just so excited about this that I figured if I didn't buy it, then he was just gonna go to one of my competitors and they buy it. And then I'd be I have missed out on that opportunity and for the first time, it kind of hit me how nervousness can be perceived as energy. And it's enthusiast because he was terrified. But she was perceiving that as being energy and enthusiasm. And that happens a lot in public speaking, by the way, you can actually use that nervousness to your advantage. By the way, I mentioned earlier that nervousness is kind of normal, even for professional speakers and even professional speakers get nervous. But the audience will likely not even perceive that nervousness, uh, give you a good example that from my from my own life when I was a couple years ago, I got nominated for a marketing award by Public Speaking Association. So So basically, these were everybody that was in the audience, were peers of mine. These were people that actually do professional speaking for a living and the the It was a contest, basically that there were six of us that were nominated that had businesses that were pretty good at doing marketing in the speaking industry. And out of the six, each one of us got to come up on stage and present for like 15 minutes, and the audience was gonna choose the winner at that. Wow, that's a pretty good opportunity. It didn't hit me until I I saw the other names on the list. The other five nominees and I knew these guys. These were really prestigious keynote speakers and people that were really well known in the industry, and I was competing against him. So I kind of for the first time started to get a little bit nervous. And then what really increase? My nervousness, though, was that I was looking. And I'm the only guy whose specialty is fearless, public speaking, right? So other people were doing leadership and marketing and different things like that. But But it kind of hit me a few days, really, Before I was about to give the speech that, you know, I'm supposed to be the foot public speaking guy, the fearless presentations guy. So if I get up on stage and I look nervous, Holy crap, my career is over. And so the the anxiety started to kind of build. Well, we got into the room. They were the six of us were sitting at the at the front table and there were a couple of people that were going before before me. And there were another three that we're going after me. And the as the second person was presenting, he did a a really good job. I was really impressed. I've never heard of this guy and he was in a really good job and I looked over and the table was it. That was the only guy now sitting at the table. The other three people that were going to go after me actually weren't even sitting at the head table anymore, and I looked off to the side on It was a big ballroom that had kind of the accordion doors that separated it from other sections of the ballroom, and I looked at each one of those other three guys, these professional speakers, these guys that do this for a living. They were pacing back and forth like until they were kind of going through their speech and and I got up. Andi, I think I did a pretty good job and the other three guys got up on day did a pretty good job as well. So the thing is, is that I could tell that they were doing that. They were going through those paces because they were nervous. But when they got up in front of the group, the audience couldn't see it. And it's likely that's a very similar thing that will happen to you as well. So even if you feel that nervousness, you know, keep in mind that a lot of that stuff is gonna be things that the audience didn't see anyway. Now, some of these other nine things that we're gonna cover are gonna be things that will help you actually reduce that nervousness. So the number two and number three are are two that really go together. And they are the cause of more public speaking fear than just about anything else that you can do the 1st 1 Our tip number two, anyway, is that you never, ever, ever want to write a presentation word for word. Because if you think about it, if you right out of presentation, word for word, what you most likely to do you're most likely going to want to read it, right? So when you read a presentation, it's gonna sound. I don't care how good of a speaker you are. It's gonna sound boring. That's a that's a very unique skill is to be able to read a presentation and make it sound interesting and make it sound, too, where you make it sound like something people want the kind of here. So that's a very, very difficult skill to kind of master. So what we kind of teach our customers our clients to do is to make notes, you know, jot down a couple of bullet points and then add in content that you don't necessarily have to kind of right out word for word in the olden days, what people used to do back when I first started doing presentations, people used to kind of write out their entire presentation on a legal pad or they, you know, these sticky d'oh uh, flash cards or something like that. And now today, So it's kind of high tech now. What most people do is they just put their entire presentation on on a slide show. They'll put 142 bullet points on PowerPoint slideshow. Well, basically, that's the same thing. Is writing an outward forward? It's just you're not writing every single exact word, but it's pretty damn close because what tends to happen is people will kind of read a bullet point and then say just a little bit and then read another bullet points a little bit and read another bullet point. Kind of say a little bit. So those that kind of thing will cause your your nervousness to increase exponentially. So if you design if you if you design your presentations even just a little bit differently, you're gonna reduce that nervousness pretty dramatically in ah few podcast down the road, we're going to show you how to really design presentations in a way that will help you reduce that nervousness and make it for you. You don't necessarily have to write out the presentation word for word and get a much better results of so Tip number two is you want to avoid writing out the presentation work forward now. Tip number three goes right along with Tip number two is you don't want to try to memorize your presentation word for because that's the That's the trap that people tend to fall into. They will first, they'll try Teoh right there. Presentation where? Forward. And then they'll try to if when they read it, they know they sound boring. So they say, OK, great. I read this thing. I must sound really boring. So what? I'm gonna do something. Memorize that, and that's gonna make me sound better, which actually doesn't even make any sense. And basically, you're saying the same exact thing is you would have said if you were reading the presentation. But now you probably don't have your cheat notes in front of you so that if you're nervous already and you've gotta memorize speech and you flub a line or you forget what you're going to say, then that nervousness is gonna increase exponentially in just a couple of seconds. So those two things right there number two, number three, writing a presentation, work forward and trying to memorize a presentation where forward are the two biggest mistakes that people make in the design process that caused a lot of public speaking Here, Tip number four is You want to show up early, the if you're the presenter. If you're the person who's actually delivering the presentation. You want to make sure that you're there. Well, in front of the time that you're gonna be starting, especially if you have some type of visual aids. So if you have, ah, Elektronik slide show some kind of power pointer, President, something like that. And you have to kind of look that up. It's a whole lot better toe kind of attach those things or practice with those kind of things an hour before you speak. Then three minutes before you speak because there's a good chance something's gonna go wrong. I don't care how many times you've done it. I don't care how technical you are. Somewhere along the way, you're gonna try to hook up your PowerPoint slideshow, and it's not gonna work. And if that happens two minutes before you speak, all of a sudden that panic will kind of set in. Whereas if it happens in our it, let's just say it only takes a minute to fix it. You know, you're still starting on time. You're still starting your presentation on time. But a minute before you're starting. Now listen. That panic has set in and It kind of throws you off your game pretty dramatically, so so show up early. Another good reason for for being at your new early is that you get a chance to kind of see the room. You get to kind of t meet with the people. So especially if it's a group that you don't speak too often or if it's a brand new group that you've never met, it gives you a chance to kind of network with the folks a little bit, so you can better customize your content of your presentation to these folks. So So there's a lot of advantages toe kind of showing up early way I would years ago. This is probably, I don't know, six or seven years or so ago. I was. I was speaking with it with another one of my prisoners were doing a leadership conference in in a small town, and we way we were staying at a hotel that was like 10.3 miles away from from the venue. And so we did that on purpose. You know, we've been onto the the travel website and we put in the address of where we're going to be speaking the next morning and saw that this was actual closest hotel. So we kind of book that. So we get into the hotel the night before, and it's kind of dark, but we see that there are a couple of high rise buildings that Aaron kind of the same parking lot. So we're thinking, Oh, that must be That must be We're gonna be speaking the next morning, right? Well, the speaker that I was presenting with it had a brand new kind of GPS. So this was, you know, this was probably right before the GPS says we're real popular on the cell phones, and he had so he had he'd spent, you know, the high dollars to get this really good, I think was like a garment or something like that, right? And he puts the address in just to make sure that we're going to the right place and we're 45 minutes or so before we're gonna be starting. And I think it's about an hour. So before we're gonna be starting. So we have plenty of time or only 450.3 miles away. So it's gonna be, you know, a couple of minutes or so to get there. He punches the address in the garment, and it says that it looks like it. It is 0.3 miles away, but it's on the opposite side of the road on the on the excess road of the freeway that we're next to. So not a big deal was like, you know, 1.2 miles or so to get there, so it's still only a couple of minutes, so So we get on the We were just about to get on the freeway and we just noticed that the traffic is kind of back up. There's some kind of construction at the next exit, so you know, So we kind of get on the freeway and get right back off. But it's taking, you know, 15 20 minutes or so, and we're not getting really close to this. This place, right? And and then the time keeps ticking, and now you know, 20 minutes of God by 25 minutes, 30 minutes, and we finally get off the freeway and make a quick U turn and kind of come back. We get to the exact spot that's on the GPS, and it turns out that That's just a It's a an empty field. There's There's nothing in the place where the GPS is. And so we ended up going back to where we started back to the hotel and going and looking at the buildings that were, you know, like we could have walked to where we started. And it turns out that that was the exact place that we were gonna be going to. So I was. I mean, I was so angry. I was just kind of throw this guy's GPS up out the window. But anyway, we end up rushing in, and it was still 20 minutes or so before we were supposed to start speaking. But But when we walked in the room, there were already a lot of the people that were in the audience. A lot of people that we're gonna be presenting to were already there, and they had, you know, their laptops kind of set upon their tables and all that kind of stuff. So we were kind of it looked like we were unprepared. And so it was one of those things that, you know, with any time that you're going to a new then you or something like that. It's a good idea to kind of make sure you know exactly where you gonna be. I usually like to do that the day before now, because of experiences like that, So But it does kind of threw off your game. If you're if you have that kind of pressure right before you right before you're about to speak through the last thing that we're gonna cover in this one is howto have to breathe more effectively when you're presenting. Now, this is something that I actually incorrectly taught for. I'd say probably the 1st 10 or 15 years or so that I was doing Public speaking training is I used to I used to tell people that when we get nervous, we tend to breathe more shallowly and as a result of breathing more Sally, it causes us tow kind of lose our train of thought Maur, which which is true but the but the mechanism of why that happens is actually it's a little bit more dramatic. What one of things that happens to people when they get nervous is their heart starts to beat faster. When our heart starts to beat faster, it throws off the chemistry in our bloodstream pretty dramatically. And so when you when you have that really fast racing heart, that means that you're more likely it's gonna mess with the oxygen levels in your bloodstream and all that kind of stuff. And as a result, it can make you more cloudy when you're more cloudy thinking anyway, so when you speak, it doesn't come out as clearly is what you wanted to. And you're more likely to kind of lose your train of thought or lose your place. I forget what you're gonna say and that kind of thing. Well, after doing ah bunch of these presentations and having medical doctors and surgeons kind of go through the they told me that this particular tip taking a few deep breaths is one of the best things that you could do to keep any of that stuff from happening. Because what happens is when you take a really deep breath from the diaphragm. Basically, what that does is it allows your heart rate thio slow down just a little bit toe, have amore controlled kind of heart rate, and after having medical doctors explain this to be a classic kind of hit me What, All you know, the coaches when I was younger, we're telling me when I was doing athletics, you know? So when I would play football in high school and in college and when I was doing weight lifting and and later on, when I started to in martial arts and ju jitsu and stuff like that, you know, all of those kind of things there. There we are trained to take a big, deep breath and really kind of control our heart rate. And the reason why is because it's when we get nervous, that heart starts to beat. It messes up our chemistry, and it makes it to where we're gonna get more confused. We're gonna be less clear, all that kind of stuff. So basically all of those those tips that our coaches were given us when we were younger on breathing that's very, very important toe kind of remain in control. So if you want to have a nice, poised presentation right before you speak, just kind of take a really deep kind of breath before you before you speak, and it will help you kind of get started on the right time right track anyway, and kind of reduce your nervousness. So So those are the 1st 5 things that we're gonna cover us far as waste to reduce public speaking fair. And I've got an additional five. Then I'm gonna cover on the next podcast. We're also gonna cover a new tech find in the next podcast. So if you if you haven't already done so, make sure and subscribe to the to the podcast. Because in time, we have new sessions coming out. You know, it'll kind of pop up on your on your your podcast device to make it much easier for you to kind of keep track. 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