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The Causes of the Fear of Public Speaking and How to Overcome Them Aug 29, 2022

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In this episode, we will cover a few of the common situations that occur that lead to experiencing public speaking fear. As I cover each one, I will also give you a few simple things that you can do to counteract each of these causes.
So if you ever feel nervous when you stand up and speak in front of a group, these tips can really help.
The Causes of the Fear of Public Speaking and How to Overcome Them
You’re an expert in your field, and you know what you’re talking about. After all, you’ve worked in your field for years. You’ve done your research and received critical acclaim and possibly even some awards. But when you’re asked to speak in front of a crowd, which you often are, you break out into a cold sweat. Why does this happen? After all, nobody knows the topic quite as well as you.
You’re not alone.
The fear of public speaking is actually one of the most common fears in America.
Public speaking anxiety has common symptoms, and fortunately, there are ways to remedy them. You don’t have to live with it or suffer through it. The key lies in understanding the causes of the fear of public speaking and dealing with those individual issues. Possible reasons for anxiety during public speaking situations have fairly common causes and have simple fixes.
Here is your guide to some of the causes of the fear of public speaking and how to overcome those fears.
Show Notes: The Causes of the Fear of Public Speaking and How to Overcome Them
(https://www.fearlesspresentations.com/the-causes-of-the-fear-of-public-speaking-and-how-to-overcome-them/)

The Presentation Skills Checklist Aug 22, 2022

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In this episode, I share with you my presentation skills checklist that you can use when you are being asked to deliver a speech. It is kind of like a checklist that pilots use in order to lower the risk of failure. You can use it the same way. Make sure you do each of these simple tasks before you speak, and your risk of flubbing a speech shrinks, and your opportunity to perform well in front of the group increases dramatically.
This presentation skills checklist can make designing and delivering a presentation easier and less risky. When folks go through our presentation skills classes, they are often surprised at how simple public speaking really is. That is if you have a great structure and follow a simple checklist.
Before pilots take a plane off the ground, they always follow a written checklist. They don’t follow this process by memory. Instead, they check off each task one by one.
There is a reason why every pilot does this. The process takes a tremendous amount of risk out of the equation. The checklist also takes something very complex and makes it very simple.
Great presenters do the same thing. If you follow a simple presentation checklist, you make delivering the presentation less risky.
Show Notes: The Presentation Skills Checklist (https://www.fearlesspresentations.com/checklist-presentation-skills/)

5 Ways to Promote Yourself as a Professional Speaker (Part 2 of 2) Aug 15, 2022

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We just finished a five-part series about How to Start a Public Speaking Career. If you haven’t had a chance to listen to that series, it will help you understand the concepts that we talk about here much more clearly.
5 Ways to Promote Yourself as a Professional Speaker
In this session, we are going to cover how to promote yourself as a professional public speaker. In the earlier sessions, we talked about how to get experience speaking within your current industry. Some of the ideas were to start out as a trainer in your current industry and to speak to associations within your industry. This helps you practice your craft, but, more importantly, it helps you get a video of yourself in front of actual audiences. In the last session, we talked about how to create content like blog posts, videos, and books that you will be able to use to market yourself as a professional speaker.
Last week, I covered steps one through three. This week, I focus on the final two ways to promote yourself as a professional public speaker.
For full show notes, visit 5 Ways to Promote Yourself as a Professional Speaker
https://www.fearlesspresentations.com/how-to-promote-yourself-as-a-professional-speaker/

5 Ways to Promote Yourself as a Professional Speaker (Part 1 of 2) Aug 08, 2022

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We just finished a five-part series about How to Start a Public Speaking Career. If you haven’t had a chance to listen to that series, it will help you understand the concepts that we talk about here much more clearly.
5 Ways to Promote Yourself as a Professional Speaker
In this session, we are going to cover how to promote yourself as a professional public speaker. In the earlier sessions, we talked about how to get experience speaking within your current industry. Some of the ideas were to start out as a trainer in your current industry and to speak to associations within your industry. This helps you practice your craft, but, more importantly, it helps you get a video of yourself in front of actual audiences. In the last session, we talked about how to create content like blog posts, videos, and books that you will be able to use to market yourself as a professional speaker.
For full show notes, visit 5 Ways to Promote Yourself as a Professional Speaker
https://www.fearlesspresentations.com/how-to-promote-yourself-as-a-professional-speaker/

Start Your Own Public Speaking Company from Scratch Aug 01, 2022

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This is part five of a five-part series about how to start a public speaking career. In the past episodes, we focused on how to use public speaking within your current career, both as an income stream and as marketing.
We also covered a session on how to become a professional speaker for an established speaking company. In this episode, I cover a few step-by-step items that will help you create your own presentation company or speaking career from scratch. If you want to be a professional public speaker, these practical tips can help you get started.
Show Notes: Start Your Own Public Speaking Company from Scratch
https://www.fearlesspresentations.com/start-your-own-public-speaking-company-from-scratch/

Become a Certified Speaker for an Established Presentation Company Jul 25, 2022

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We are continuing our series on How to Start a Public Speaking Career, and in this session, we will show a shortcut by working for an organization that is already established. While the first episode mentioned a wide variety of approaches, one of the advantages of working with an established company is that the company the speaker is representing has already done the hard work. They have already created the content, vetted the content, and created a customer base. The downside is that the speaker can’t create or promote his/her own content as easily. In addition, if the speaker quits working for the company, he/she will likely have to start from scratch to create their own content and customer base.
In this episode, I’ll cover the pros and cons in more detail. I will also give a step-by-step process that you can go through if you want to become a speaker for one of these companies.
Show Notes: Become a Certified Speaker for an Established Presentation Company
https://www.fearlesspresentations.com/become-a-certified-speaker-for-an-established-presentation-company/

Become a Professional Public Speaker by Speaking within Your Current Industry Jul 18, 2022

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One of the easiest ways to become a professional public speaker is by speaking to groups within your current industry. In this article, we will show you several ways to get paid as a professional speaker without having to change careers. This episode continues our previous episode, How to Start a Public Speaking Career.
Although this is just one of the three routes we will cover in detail, this route is one of the most common (and perhaps the most lucrative). So, we will spend a little more time on this one.

One of the most important steps in beginning is just that, to start. Otherwise, there’s no change. Just starting out gives you practice and room to improve. Improvement might be necessary because while you might have a friendly face, your body language could portray something else. While speaking, you may not connect with your audience enough, and you might need to practice making more eye contact. So start off by speaking at low-stress meetings or community centers. Don’t start out your career by jumping into corporate events- they’re likely to have a large crowd. The best thing to do is to start where you’re comfortable.
In this episode, I show you a few ways to get practice as a professional speaker and generate income by speaking within your current industry.
Show Notes: Become a Professional Public Speaker by Speaking within Your Current Industry

How to Start a Public Speaking Career Jul 11, 2022

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For the last couple of episodes, I talked about how lucrative a professional speaker career is. Last week, I gave you a few things that have to be in place before you will have a lot of success speaking for a fee.
This week, I'm going to pull back the curtain and show you a step-by-step process of how to start a professional speaking career. By the way, if you don't think of yourself as a professional speaker but you have a following or a way of doing something better, the ideas in this episode will help you develop additional streams of income.
Being a professional speaker is a very lucrative and rewarding profession. But, if you have never actually made money from speaking before, you may be looking into how to start a public speaking career. Just as an FYI, the way that I did it is not the ideal way to become a professional speaker. In fact, when I give advice to new speakers, I tell them to do the opposite of what I did. I’ve now trained over 100 professional speakers over the past 20 years. Many of these presenters are at the top of their industries. Below are a few ideas that may help.
The ideas I share today can help you make public speaking an additional stream of income for you!
Show Notes: How to Start a Public Speaking Career
https://www.fearlesspresentations.com/how-to-start-a-public-speaking-career/

How to Become a Professional Speaker (Part 2) Jul 04, 2022

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This is part two of our two-part series on How to Become a Professional Speaker. Last week, I explained a few different types of professional speakers. This week, I give you five attributes that pretty much have to be in place to get people or organizations to pay you to speak.

Hone Your Craft Before Dabbling in Professional Speaking -- Basically, get good at something else first. No one is going to pay you to speak if you haven't first been successful at something.
Create a Magnetic Personality -- Professional speakers are larger than life.
Become an Expert in Your Industry (or Niche.)
Don't Rely on Speaking Gigs Alone. Create Multiple Streams of Income.
Develop a Tough Skin.

If you don't yet have these things in place, make sure to keep listening. The next few episodes can help you develop these traits.
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So You Want to Be a PAID and Successful Speaker. Here Are Five Things You Will Need to Become a Professional Speaker.
https://www.fearlesspresentations.com/want-a-career-as-a-public-speaker-ways-to-build-public-speaking-credentials/

How to Become a Professional Speaker Jun 27, 2022

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It’s easy to develop a career as a public speaker if you’re already a celebrity. If your last name is Trump or Schwarzenegger, you will have no problem getting people to pay you to speak. However, that is not the only way to become a professional speaker. In this post, I will share with you a few tips about how to become a professional speaker.

By the way, if you have a famous last name, it may not matter what you speak about. (People just want to say that they saw you in person.) You will also likely have a speech writer working on something inspirational for you anyway. But what if you don’t have a famous last name to back you up? What if you didn’t win an Olympic gold medal? What if people don’t know you from another face on the street?

Since 99.9% of us are in this situation, how can we increase our fame to become professional speakers? Before we explore these tips, let’s explore the types of professional speakers.
SHOW NOTES: How to Become a Professional Speaker
https://www.fearlesspresentations.com/want-a-career-as-a-public-speaker-ways-to-build-public-speaking-credentials/

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