Trusting your innate ability to communicate creates confidence
Does unspoken anxiety make you over-think and over-prepare to hide how much you’re struggling? Learn how to trust your innate ability to communicate and stop over-working to be heard.
The Most Important Way to Shift How You Show Up on Video Calls: Camera Angle
Do you want to know the single most important things you can do in video meetings? No, it’s not finding the right words with perfect precision. The most important thing you can do to shift how you’re perceived on video is adjust your camera angle.
Reject Executive Presence
Getting feedback that you need more confidence or more executive presence only makes you less confident and less present. Here are my tips to reclaim your voice and speak with ease.
Honor Your Innate Rhythm: Refuse to be rushed while speaking
Do you feel like you ramble or repeat yourself while speaking off-the-cuff? Have people told you that you speak fast but telling yourself to “slow down” is just distracting? Speaking fast can take away your confidence and authority (and actually lead to people interrupting you more).
Holding Our Breath While Speaking
If you’re holding your breath while speaking, it can make you lose your train of thought and feed anxiety. Here are my tips for finding flow when speaking.
How to Prepare for Impromptu Speaking
When preparing to speak spontaneously, most people either avoid and wing it or over-prepare and memorize. Here’s my process for finding middle ground and preparing when you can’t prepare.
Prioritize Comfort
What are you prioritizing when speaking? Are you focusing on what you want to say? Or are you over-prioritizing other people’s perceptions of you?
Finding Your Tenth Floor
Do you find that you give way too much detail when describing some thing off-the-cuff? Ever feel like you are rambling or not ending with strength or clarity?
Expecting the Unexpected: Finding Agency in Uncertain Times
Trusting myself—and helping others trust themselves—has been my life’s work. As we close out this unexpected year, I hope you trust yourself—and your ability to handle anything unexpected that comes your way.
Working Through Your On-Camera Meeting Anxiety with Harvard Business Review
On-camera meetings aren’t going away, and they can be particularly nerve-wracking for people with anxiety. This article offers five questions to ask yourself to help quell on-camera meeting stress
Hat Not Hate: We talk about safety, bodily autonomy and gender identity
Check out my interview with Hat Not Hate, an anti-bullying platform, where I talk about safety, bodily autonomy and gender identity.
Speak Up and Be Heard With Authenticity
Interested in starting your own entrepreneurial journey but unsure what to expect? Then read up on our interview with Lee Bonvissuto, Founder of PresentVoices, located in New York, NY, USA.