Member-only story

7 solutions to overcome your fear of public speaking

Liam Sandford
2 min readAug 15, 2022

75% of the global population have a fear of public speaking. 7 solutions to help you overcome this fear…

1. There is no one size fits all for preparing.

Try what others suggest, but do what works for you.

Ask:

  • Where do you do your best thinking?
  • Are you task or people driven?
  • How do you like to prepare?
  • What stories can you tell?

This shapes your content preparation.

2. The hard thing is preparing your mind.

You have fear of screwing up,

Of being embarrassed in front of everyone.

But nobody is expecting you to be perfect.

Perfection does not exist.

You are instead striving for ‘good enough’.

3. You wonder, ‘what can I add that other people don’t already know?’

The reality is they don’t have the knowledge from your perspective.

You are not an imposter.

You would not be speaking if you didn’t know the topic.

Back yourself.

4. Less is more.

--

--

Liam Sandford
Liam Sandford

Written by Liam Sandford

I help ambitious people scale their impact with quiet communication • Best Selling Author of Effortless Public Speaking • liamsandford.com/subscribe

Responses (1)

Write a response