What exactly does it take for people to get confidence? Do we understand confidence in a useful way? What actions, beliefs and understandings do we need around confidence for public speaking?

Confidence is a tricky word. It has a number of meanings for people and they may not all be that useful for people who are scared of public speaking. People often write to me and say that they want to “appear” confident. They mean they don’t want to show any weakness or fear. They think that going red will make them seem vulnerable. They also think “confidence” means not feeling any fear when they “perform”. We need to have a better more helpful definition of confidence

Public Speaking Avoidance doesn’t help. Actually avoidance is really the problem

Why we do massively undermine our own confidence? What is the role of our inner critic? If we want to change how we feel about public speaking, it’s really useful to build confidence by re-thinking how we talk to ourselves