Fearless Presentations
Fearless Presentations is a podcast dedicated to helping people overcome public speaking anxiety and become more confident, poised presenters. Each week, the show offers free practical tips based on the host's two-day presentation skills class, which is taught in cities around the world. The episodes focus on developing the skills needed to deliver presentations with poise and ease. It is a straightforward, skill-oriented resource for anyone looking to improve their speaking abilities.
Episodes
101 Public Speaking Tips | Part 2 of 4
This is part two of the 101 Public Speaking Tips series. Last week, we covered 24 tips in less than 24 minutes. Last week, we covered tips to create an outline of a speech, a few ways to add energy to boring speeches, and finished with a few ways to add pizzaz to the presentations. We ended last week with tip #24. This week, we start with four ways to use stories and examples more effectively to
101 Public Speaking Tips | Part 1 of 4
This is episode 401, and way back on episode 101, we did a fun episode called 101 public speaking tips to coincide with the episode number. When we did that episode, it was like a summary of all the 100 episodes from the first couple of years of the broadcast. So, basically, I crammed absolutely everything that I know about public speaking skills into a few episodes. Then, on episode 201, we did i
3 Ways to Add Humor to Your Speech Without Being Cringe-worthy
Want to add humor to your speech? Quite often, when we are designing speeches and presentations for a professional audience, we discount the value of entertainment and humor. However, a good presentation should be both informative and entertaining. You have to have both. If you aren't providing the audience with good information, then you're wasting their time. If you aren't providi
Recognizing the Causes of Public Speaking Fear
What causes the fear of public speaking? Why do I get heart palpitations? I mean, I like to think of myself as being an expert in your field (at least within my own company.) And I know what I’m talking about. After all, I’ve worked in my field for years. I’ve done my research. So, why do I break out into a cold sweat when I have to speak in front of groups of people?Well stick around and hear abo
Get Better Audience Participation During Your Presentations!
Audience Participation is an excellent way to make a good presentation into a stellar presentation. It can also be the scariest. That is why most speakers — even seasoned professionals — avoid asking their audience questions. It is too risky. Or is it?The truth is that the types of audience participation that most speakers use can come across as cheesy or forced. Also, our audiences have been trai
How to Present a Proposal to Your Boss
You have identified a problem or opportunity for your company. Now you need to get approval. So, how do you present a proposal to management that will get approved? The process is actually pretty simple. The method of how to present a proposal to management that we use works about 100% of the time. Just follow the simple steps below, and your project will easily get funded.By the way, if you are p
How to Present a Proposal to a Client
Here are a few tips to keep in mind when you present a proposal to a client. Here is the scenario… You have done your homework. A team at your company painstakingly created the perfect sales proposal. In fact, the potential client was so impressed, that they moved you to their “shortlist.” Now, though, they want you to present a bid proposal to the purchasing committee. Your team is one of just si
How to Collect Feedback on a Presentation
How, exactly do we collect feedback on a presentation? Are there ways to solicit feedback that will help us grow as speakers? The answer is, absolutely, YES! However, the way that you typically ask for feedback may not be the best way to gain confidence as a speaker. In fact, many traditional feedback techniques can actually make you more nervous. In addition, speakers will sometimes make adjustme
The 10 Biggest Public Speaking Mistakes | What Not to do During a Presentation
Most of what we cover on this podcast are things that you need to do. The secrets to effective visual aids, curbs against anxiety, the right ways to present, but what about the wrong ways? You have to know what not to do in order to know what to do and, for a lot of us, we do a lot of what we shouldn't do. There are so many small habits you might not even realize you do that are actively hurt
5 Ironclad Ways to Prepare for a Presentation
“I don’t present very often, so how do I prepare for a presentation?” That is, by far, one of the most common questions that we get as presentation skills coaches. In fact, most public speaking fear comes from situations where presenters just don’t speak very often. They have a hard time building up momentum. For instance, if you only drive a car once every couple of years, you will likely be nerv
How to Find Venues to Practice Public Speaking
I often get a common question after people attend our 2-day presentation class. “Now that I feel more confident, where do I go to practice to continue to get better as a speaker?” “How can I continue to grow as a great speaker?” The best way to continue to grow is with continued and consistent use of your presentation skills. If you take a public speaking class and then don’t present again for a y
Riskier (and More Rewarding) Ways to Start Your Presentation
Now that you know a few of the best (and safe) ways to start your presentation right, let's get spicier. No memorable speech you've ever sat through took no risks. The bare minimum a speech can be to not be bad is inoffensive. All the introductions I gave you last week are enough to make sure you don't have an embarrassingly awful first impression but they're not enough to make
The Best Way to Start Your Presentation
The opening is really the most important part of your presentation. You want to make a good first impression. In addition, you also want the audience to see as a subject matter expert.Of course, we’ve all been there as a speaker. First, we design a powerful presentation. Then, we nervously walk out onto a stage or into the front of the room. The audience stares with skepticism written all over the
How to Write a Valedictorian Speech
So you did it! You graduated at the top of your class. You’ve proved you are the apex of knowledge, skill, and potential within your school, and now you get to prove it with a beautiful Valedictorian Speech. Just one problem, since this is the first (and only) time you will ever do it, you don’t know how to write a valedictorian speech. Don’t worry, you’re not alone. Just about every Valedictorian
How to Write a Commencement Speech
Most of the time, if you're good at writing one style of speech, you're good at writing all of them. Speech writing is a very transferable skill no matter if it's for a keynote, a lecture, a sales pitch, or pretty much anything else. But there are some exceptions. Commencement speeches draw a weird, wobbly fine line between being casual, inspirational, funny, and reflective. You can
5 Ways to Calm Down Before a Presentation
Want to calm down before a presentation? Even if you don’t regularly experience the fear of public speaking, just before you start a speech, it is easy to feel anxious. This initial nervous energy can cause a speaker to have a shaky voice, dry mouth, or sweaty palms just before a presentation. The good news is that this experience is very common. Most of the time, if you start your presentation we
Talking With Your Hands
Picture this: You arrive at a concert venue to see your favorite artist. The lights dim, the crowd buzzes, anticipation builds. They finally step on stage and perform the entire set with their hands stuck in their pockets. No gestures. No movement. No visible energy. Even if the music sounds incredible, something feels off. You’re listening, but you’re not fully feeling it. The performance lacks p
People Judge Your COMPETENCE by the CONFIDENCE That You Show
The quickest way to make people not believe you're qualified is to not believe it yourself. Saying that confidence is important certainly isn't the most groundbreaking thing to hear but knowing exactly WHY it's so important is what really gives people the push to develop it. After last week's episode discussing why you need to have more self-confidence in what you already know,
How to Prove You're an Expert (Even if You're Not)
Every speaker wants to become a subject matter expert on the topic they present, but here's the truth these people aren't realizing:Regardless of what industry you are in or what expertise you have, you are the expert. The knowledge that you have on a specific topic is valuable to somebody, and that's really all that matters.Becoming an expert on a subject doesn't come with som
The 7 Qualities of Every Great Speaker
What are the most important qualities of a good public speaker? What makes a great presenter? Just what are the fundamentals of a good public speaker that allow one orator to get up in front of an audience and mesmerize the crowd while another fails?When I first started teaching the Fearless Presentations ® classes, I did so because I knew from my own experience that the more self-confident a pres
How to Become a Public Speaker From Nothing
In the past few weeks we've covered a couple of the best entry points into public speaking from wherever you're starting at, but what do you do if you're starting with nothing at all. If you're not already in an industry that is looking for more speakers and you've tried to apply to some public speaking companies to no avail, it can start to feel hopeless. Luckily, so many
The Easiest Way to Become a Public Speaker
Over the last 2 weeks I've been going over the best ways to get started as a public speaker, and today we're delving into what I think is the easiest of those ways. Speaking on topics you already know and are passionate about takes so much of the stress away. Having real pedigree in something you're speaking on and the ability to go off-hand whenever you need to is something that ea
How to Become a Speaker at a Company
Last week, we went over a few of the best ways to get into the public speaking industry. There's a few different entry points and over this episode and the next couple, we'll be covering, in more detail those three different ways to get started. The first one I'm covering is joining an already established company. If the prospect of entrepreneurship daunts you and you want to go the
How to Start Your Public Speaking Career Right
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.In this episode, we'll be starting our series on the absolute best and easiest ways to get started on your public speaking journey!Show Notes: How to Start a Public Speaking Career(https://www.f
Create the Perfect Presentation Handout
Last week, at the very end of the episode, I mentioned that one way to make your PowerPoint Presentations better is to create a good handout for the audience. And I shared a story about a breakout session I led where I spend most of the time in the presentation using the handout as the visual aid versus the slideshow.On this episode, I'm going to go into more detail about what I did. The titl
3 Simple Ways to Design Better PowerPoint Presentations
Last week, on the last episode of the series on the Presentation Skills Checklist, we covered how many slides to put into a PowerPoint Presentation. This week, our topic is "3 Simple Ways to Create Better PowerPoint Presentations."By the way, if you are using the techniques I outline on other episodes of the podcast, creating a PowerPoint presentation should be really easy. Basically, in
How Many PowerPoint Slides Should You Use
I hope you have enjoyed the Presentation Skills Checklist series. So far, we covered how to know your audience. Next we helped you create a great presentation title. Then, we helped you organize your presentation outline. And in the last couple weeks we showed you how to add credible evidence to reinforce the points you created in your outline.The last step is to create your PowerPoint Slideshow.
Make Your Presentations More Interesting to Your Audiences
If you want to be a fantastic speaker, you have to be able to make any topic really interesting -- even if you aren't that excited about it. So on this episode, I'm going to give you nine things that I call "Impact Ideas". They are different types of evidence that you can use to make your point more compelling or interesting.This is a continuation of the series we started a few
How to Become a Great Storyteller and Engage Your Audience
Great speakers know how to tell a great story. On this episode, I'll give you the five key steps of storytelling that these great speakers know and use in every single speech that they deliver. (That's hat makes them great speakers!)This is a continuation of the series we started a few weeks ago about your Presentation Skills Checklist. And over the last couple of weeks, we covered the f
A Simple 3-Step Process to Design Presentations
A few weeks ago, I gave you my Presentation Skills Checklist. And over the last couple of weeks, we covered the first two items on that checklist, (1) how to know your audience better, and (2) how to design a catchy title.On today's episode, I'm going to show you how to quickly and easily design your speech in a whole lot less time that what most people take to create a presentation. If
Presentation Title Generator
A couple of weeks ago, I gave you my Presentation Skills Checklist. And last week, we covered step one in that checklist which was know your audience. If you haven't had a chance to listen to that episode yet, the things I covered were essential in creating better presentations and reducing public speaking nervousness.Most people design presentations by creating a long list of items they coul
Know Your Audience before Designing Presentation
Last week, I gave you my Presentation Skills Checklist. And step one in that checklist was to know your audience.Listen to any speaking coach, go to any Toastmasters, attend any presentation seminar, you will hear a single phrase over and over. “Know your audience.” Sounds really good too. When we hear the phrase, we think, “Well, of course. That makes sense.” But what exactly does “know your audi
The Presentation Skills Checklist
On today's episode, I'm going to give you a presentation skills checklist that 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 al
How to Design Presentations Quickly
!!ANNOUNCEMENT!!We are super excited to announce the new way we will be doing our Fearless Presentations classes and if you are interested in hearing all about it I cover it pretty extensively from 2:33 - 15:32.For those that are more of our loyal listeners to the podcast, y'all probably started listening in the first place because you were wanting to reduce nervousness when you present. Of c
Music Is the Key to Accent Reduction?
A few years ago, my wife and I went to see the movie Bohemian Rhapsody. When I was a kid, I remember hearing Another One Bites the Dust and We Are the Champions, but I was by no means a Queen fan. I was surprised, though, how many songs from the movie I knew every word to.But, I have to admit, the most surprising thing to me was that Freddie Mercury was a Persian Indian man who lived in England. W
How to Introduce Yourself
One of the more challenging parts of any presentation is the very first part. If you are wondering how to introduce yourself before starting your presentation, you are in good company. For most of us, once we get the first few sentences out, our nervousness will diminish pretty significantly. So, this initial self-introduction is really important. If we struggle here, our nervousness will increase
7 Presentation Habits that Actually Cause Public Speaking Fear
After years of presentation coaching, one of the major things that I have realized is that many of the things presenters do to reduce nervousness actually cause nervousness. And because most business presenters deliver presentations so infrequently, those bad ideas get repeated over and over. Eventually, they become habits.So, on this episode, I'll give you the seven presentation habits that
4 Tips to Handle Hecklers
If you practice great presentation skills, and focus on designing your presentations on what your audience needs and wants, the last thing you will have trouble with is hecklers. However, it only takes a single mad-at-the-world heckler to quickly turn your presentation masterpiece into modern art. So, when you are rudely interrupted in front of an audience of strangers, you will want to have a str
Tip #30: Add Energy and Enthusiasm to Your Delivery | 30 Public Speaking Tips
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Tip #29: Talk with Your Hands - Use Gestures to Better Explain Your Content | 30 Public Speaking Tips
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Tip #28: Realize that Butterflies Are Normal | 30 Public Speaking Tips
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Tip #27: Most of the Nervousness that You Feel Will Not Be Noticed by Your Audience? | 30 Public Speaking Tips
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Tip #26: Practice Your Speech with a Partner | 30 Public Speaking Tips
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Tip #25: Do Not Video Yourself to Overcome Nervousness | 30 Public Speaking Tips
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Tip #24: Consider Other Types of Visual Aids (Visuals that Aren't Slides) | 30 Public Speaking Tips
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Tip #23: Use the 6X6 Rule When Creating a PowerPoint Slides | 30 Public Speaking Tips
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Tip #22: If You Use a Slideshow, Limit Your Slides | 30 Public Speaking Tips
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Tip #21: Add Showmanship | 30 Public Speaking Tips
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Tip #20: Borrow Credibility from Another Expert Using a Quote You Can Memorize | 30 Public Speaking Tips
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Tip #19: Add Funny Anecdotes | 30 Public Speaking Tips
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Tip #18: Every Two Minutes (or So) Give the Audience an Example/Story | 30 Public Speaking Tips
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Tip #17: Make Your Bullets Audience Focused (Give them a Reason to Keep Listening) | 30 Public Speaking Tips
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Tip #16: Limit Your Content to 5 or Fewer Main Points | 30 Public Speaking Tips
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Tip #15: Make Your Title Audience Focused | 30 Public Speaking Tips
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Tip #14: Create Different Versions of Your Story (for Time) | 30 Public Speaking Tips
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Tip #13: End Your Story with an Action/Benefit Statement. | 30 Public Speaking Tips
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Tip #12: Build up to a Climax (Turning Point) in Your Story | 30 Public Speaking Tips
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Tip #11: Paint a Descriptive Picture with Your Story Details | 30 Public Speaking Tips
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Tip #10: Start with the WWWW | 30 Public Speaking Tips
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Tip #9: Have a Clear Point in Mind Before Practicing Your Story | 30 Public Speaking Tips
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Tip #8: Become a Great Storyteller | 30 Public Speaking Tips
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Tip #7 Stand Up When You Speak? | 30 Public Speaking Tips
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Tip #6: Speak on Topics You Are an Expert On? | 30 Public Speaking Tips
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Tip #5: Look for a Friendly Face? | 30 Public Speaking Tips
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Tip #4: Take a Deep Breath Just Before You Go on Stage? | 30 Public Speaking Tips
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Tip #3: Don't Try to Memorize Your Entire Speech? | 30 Public Speaking Tips
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Tip #2: Don't Write Your Speech Word-for-Word? | 30 Public Speaking Tips
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Tip #1: Figure Out What You Want to Say First, Then Design Your Slideshow | 30 Public Speaking Tips
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How to Recover From a Terrible Speech (What to Do If You Bomb a Presentation)
Last week, I did a quick session on why people feel nervous speaking in front of a group -- even though, they are doing things to reduce that nervousness. This week, I cover what to do if you just absolutely bomb a speech.If you just delivered a terrible presentation and feel like yo fell on your face, take heart. The tips I give at the end of this episode can help.But first, we'll talk about
Why Do I Still Get Nervous When I Speak in Public?
One of the most common things I still hear from people who are talking to me about public speaking is "why do I still get nervous when I'm giving a speech?". Now the preamble to the question is always a little different. The person may have already gone to classes or toasting clubs, maybe the person had already been speaking for years and years and years, but for some reason they st
Top 5 Most Common Public Speaking Myths DEBUNKED
I'm gonna do something a little bit different in this weeks episode. This week, we're covering the top 5 biggest public speaking myths, and I'm also debunking each and every single one. Just so you can get an idea of the myths I'll be debunking, this is a look at what they will be. 1. Good speakers are naturally good. 2. You are way more nervous than every other speaker out the
Glossophobia: What to Do If You Have an Intense Fear of Public Speaking | Part 2
Last week, on the first over glossophobia we went over what the fear actually was. We discussed how phobia may not be the best way to describe it and how a terror is probably more accurate. It's intense, it's dramatic, and it's something does effect your everyday life. If you believe after listening to last weeks episode that you are one of the many that may suffer from glossophobia
Glossophobia: What to Do If You Have an Intense Fear of Public Speaking | Part 1
Last week, I discussed the fastest and easiest way to solve public speaking fear (utilizing stories and examples), and I mentioned on that episode that most people have some type of nervousness when they stand up to present in front of others. But what do you do if your fear is more intense than just little jitters. Well, on this episode I'm going to tell you all about glossophobia, the extre
How Stories and Examples Reduce Public Speaking Fear
One of the absolute fastest and easiest ways to reduce your public speaking fear is to start introducing stories and examples into your formal presentations or PowerPoint deliveries. So when participants first come through our public speaking classes or our training classes, we introduce this technique and, a lot of times, a lot of folks will sort of resist it. They'll say things like "m
7 Ways to Advance Your Career Using Presentation Skills
We often talk on the podcast about how to improve your presentation skills or how to reduce nervousness so that you feel more confident or poised when you stand up to speak. But one of the things that we haven't covered a lot, or at least in a while, is why you should improve your presentation skills.The time and money you spend on improving your presentation skills has the highest return on
Group Presentation Guide - How to Give Presentations As a Team
There's something really special about group presentations.Group presentations are way, way more different than a normal presentation than most people believe. In fact, I've spent years and years (really the better part of a decade) studying everything that I could about presentation skills and how to deliver powerful speeches and then years later, that study kinda led me to becoming a p
Creating the Best Training and Development Programs in 2025
On today's episode we're gonna talk about designing training and development programs for employees in 2025, and it's interesting. Even several years after the COVID-19 pandemic has ended, it really left a lasting mark on the way we kind of do things. It significantly altered the way people communicate, the way that we interact, and while some of the most extreme changes were more
The Importance of Presentation Skills in the Workplace
A couple of years ago, I was teaching a public speaking workshop in Detroit and three of the people in that class happened to be job placement coaches.Throughout the course, I noticed a couple of really interesting things as the class went on. First the three of these folks that all did the same thing kept mentioning over and over again how the lessons I was covering in the public speaking class w
How to Deliver Inspirational Speeches in the Workplace
Today I'm going to show you use the way that you speak to become a better leader because if you want to strengthen your presence and really motivate your team to a higher performance. One of the fastest ways to do that is to be able to deliver inspiring speeches that energize, engage, and really align with your team. So in this session I'm going to teach you how to turn your standard bus
The 7 Best Reasons to Focus on Presentation Skills Training
Today I'll give you 7 compelling reason why you should focus more on improving your presentation skills. And, I know that I'm preaching to the choir because you're listening to the podcast.However, most people who subscribe to Fearless presentations typically subscribe to solve a single issue. Perhaps they have a big speech coming up and they want to feel more comfortable.Then, once
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