How to Speak in Public with Confidence!

What do you call a fish with no eyes?

Fsh!

What else is happening?

She's killing it!

I can't follow this act

What do you call a deer with no eyes and no legs?

I can't do this

- Still no idea

what do you mean you can't do this?

it's too overwhelming

Look at all these people here

Oh! I don't want to be here.

I want to be a home

You're gonna be fine!

Really?

Yeah

How

i'm gonna show you, and YOU

In 5 steps how anyone can overcome the fear of public speaking!

Who are you talking to?

Never mind them. Let's focus on you.

Let's start with some breathing techniques

and you guys as well, if you're practicing for a public speaking event,

use these techniques, follow along with me

Who are you talking to?

Shh

Just breathe with me

Look if you breathe like that it's gonna make you all panicky

It increases your stress levels increases your adrenaline

It's rubbish

What we want to do is breathe from the lower part of your body

Breathe from your diaphragm. Imagine the whole bottom part of your body is filling with air

and release all the air out of your system

and you can do this three times, four times,

as many times as you need, in order to feel comfortable

Is there someone out there?

Breathe in for four

And out for four

Feel more relaxed?

yeah calmer

The most important thing is to know your subject

Research your subject as best as you can

Do you know everything there is to know about it?

If someone has questions about it could you answer those questions?

I mean for example, Brian, you're a comedian!

Do you know your jokes?

yeah

Are you excited about them? Are they funny to you?

Yeah yeah

That's all that matters

If you're interested in it, your audience are gonna love it

Okay

Find a passion in that subject, learn to love it!

If you enjoy talking about it, it's gonna make it much easier to talk about in public

I've got the script

That's great but look

When you're practicing a speech

it's better not to have a script where you have to memorise every single word

it's better just to have bullet points

You know which pieces of information you have to give

The words which you use in order to explain those points

are not super important

it's the message that counts

Remember it like you're telling a joke for example

I am telling a joke

Exactly

So what if I forget my lines or I can't remember...

...what I'm saying?

Don't try and be perfect

Everyone in public speaking makes mistakes and that's fine

if you skip a line or if you make a mistake,

don't worry it happens

you can always come back to that part later in the speech

and don't apologize for making a mistake

there's no shame in correcting yourself

Have you practiced over and over again until it feels natural?

Yep

Practicing until you can't fail

until it's impossible to forget

This is key to feeling more calm and more confident about your speech

before delivering it

Just remember people want you to succeed

no one here wants you to fail

well what about those two over there at the bar just chatting to each other?

Don't worry about them in every audience there's gonna be people bored,

asleep, on their phone, people that just don't want to be there

You can say whatever you want,

you're still not gonna get some people in the audience's attention

Okay your body language, I mean how are you planning to stand onstage?

Well...

I mean no you you're gonna be...

shit

Try to be open, a bit loose, that stage is yours!

feel free to move around

Show how confident you are!

and look, sometimes...

You can take a strategic pause

Taking a strategic pause can make you not only seem confident

but it can also give you time to think about what you're going to say...

...next

And finally: Eye contact

You don't want to be looking at everyone in the audience in the eye

that's kind of creepy

Where am I looking then?

There's this really great trick that you can use

once you're on stage

don't look at people in the eye

just look just above their heads

that way it still looks like you're interacting with the audience

but you're not

and you feel a bit more relaxed and confident about it

Who are you talking to?

It doesn't matter.

Are you ready? you ready to go on stage?

Yep!

You're gonna be amazing!

Go get em, tiger!

Okay!

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