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Public speaking: these two little words can drive fear into the hearts of so many of us. Whether talking in front of a live audience for an event or communicating effectively on a Zoom call at work, ...

This article is first in a series focused on the profession of professional speaking. If you’ve always enjoyed presenting or been told you have a gift for engaging a room, you might want to consider ...

First my mouth dries up. I forget what I want to say and my heart beats so violently I wonder if this is what a heart attack feels like. Then my eyesight fails me. A crowd of people agglomerates into ...

As a college student, Tiffini Travis had to deliver a class presentation. So she stood up. She looked at the faces all around her. And she ran out of the room. “I was just so petrified,” remembers ...

Ugh, public speaking. That’s generally how most people feel about the topic — 90% of us, in fact. According to Forbes, only about 10 percent of the population actually loves public speaking. Ten ...

An interesting pilot study conducted by my lab found that people preferred to administer small but uncomfortable shocks to themselves than give a 5-min speech about their personal attributes. It might ...

Speaking from my experience as a Spanish-language learner, it can be pretty scary to try speaking in a new language. Here are some ideas from teachers to help our students do just that ... Irina ...

When I was in college, my boss drove me to a meeting. He had trouble finding a parking place—and, when he realized we were going to be late, pulled into a handicapped parking spot. As we got out of ...