Public Speaking Cure Blogs
OH NO; NOT AGAIN!
I know what you may be thinking. Another article from some unknown blogger with useless, surface level, unworthy, and anecdotal tips about how to overcome your fear of public speaking... why even bother?
WELL - THINK AGAIN!
Grab your popcorn because you're about to learn EVERYTHING you have been taught has been 1000% incorrect. Yes - everything you have learned about the fear of public speaking has been 1000% WRONG. Not 99%...not 100% ... 1000%. Okay lets be real -100%. I just needed to grab your attention!
Let me guess: You heard it all a 100 times: “Nail the first :30” … or "know your content", or... “take several :04 deep breaths in and slowly release”... Or “practice practice practice it several times in front of a mirror”... Or the worst, “picture everyone in their underwear” …
Why is it all these $3000-$7000 corporate seminar "experts”, speaking coaches, and institutes spend 5 minutes on the same outdated debunked breathing techniques and useless tips for dealing with your high anxiety then pivot to 2 days of pure content strategy? Hmmm.... more on that in a bit!
What about the 81% of us who are too terrified to even stand up in front of a boardroom with people we actually know, let alone rock a microphone on a stage or giving a toast or speech in front of hundreds we don’t?!!
FEAR. PHOBIA. FEAR. ANXIETY. FEAR. TERRIFIED. FEAR. HEART POUNDING.
SWEATING. QUIVERING VOICE. SHAKY HANDS. TREMBLING BODY. DIZZY SPELLS. FLUSHING. ANXIETY. PANIC. STOMACH ISSUES. INNER VOICE OF DOUBT. AVOIDANCE.
Did I mention FEAR?!
Well guess what?! This article is a GAME-CHANGER! I'm going to be your Public Speaking Super Hero!
Hi! My name is Robert Summa, and UNLIKE ALL those 100s of "presentation experts" and 1000's of faceless bloggers just pumping out repeated content... I am LinkedIn's Trusted and ONLY ISO Certified Public Speaking PHOBIA Expert. Yes... PHOBIA Expert. Today is your lucky day...
Oh... and guess what again?! By the end of this article we are going to find if you actually have a fear... or a PHOBIA... and your path forward!
Robert Summa ISO Public Speaking Phobia Expert
THERE ARE 5 CATEGORIES OF PUBLIC SPEAKING ANXIETY FROM LOW TO SEVERE.
3 FALL INTO PHOBIA.
WHICH ARE YOU?
SIT TIGHT: YOU WILL FIND OUT VERY SOON, BUT THIS ARTICLE IS FAR TOO IMPORTANT TO READ FIRST, SO NO SKIPPING AHEAD.
YOU’RE NOT ALONE!
Welcome to MY world! I OWNED that world! The terrifying and fearful world of Public Speaking Phobia; aka: GLOSSOPHOBIA (the official term).
Or at least so it was my world. For almost 18 years too. And I’m not talking typically nerves. Oh no… I’m talking worst case scenario. Anxiety, panic attacks, and avoidance at all cost.
And to top it all off, I suffer from slight Tourette’s syndrome which impacts my speech pattern. So not was I already fearful of presenting or public speaking or social networking… but add another layer that I stumble and slightly stammer upon my words when I get nervous or excited as the cherry on top of this messy glossophobia cake of me!
You’re not alone. You see, when I was 27, I was about to give a presentation in NYC for my clients. I was climbing the corporate ladder; fearless, bullet-proof, confident, looking sharp in my suit, briefcase in hand… and then …BAM! …I entered their board room, and all sets of the 75+ people’s eyes were on me.
And THAT’S when it happened. Only, it really wasn’t a bam…it was more of a WHOOOOOSH! This powerful body and mind take over of a dizzying feeling came over me. I felt like I was on a 6 flags rollercoaster going super fast and upside down. My heart…it was pounding hard, and I broke out in a sweat. I felt faint. I was tunnel visioned… and all the voices in the room became just a dim murmur… I had to get out and get out NOW! I looked over at my client…I could see her concerned face, seeing me in this way…I excused myself. I ran to the nearest bathroom. I ran cold water over my hands and face. I was hyperventilating. What was happening to me?! Am I dying? …am I having a heart attack?! Wait…am I having that thing called a panic attack?
BINGO. And so my very first ever panic attack came out of the blue right before presenting. And I never looked back after that day. I never wanted to feel THAT feeling again. And since I know what triggered it… my mind was made: I will NEVER present again. I will avoid it at all cost. I will never give a toast, give a speech, and yes, I even declined the offer to be a best man for a close friend to avoid the best man’s speech in front of 300 people. I closed off my life, and my career took a swerve.
You see, I knew the higher you climb that corporate ladder the more you had to present and speak in public. I also knew that if I didn’t, I could kiss my career goodbye. And so…I sorta did. For 18 years. But it’s not like I just quit. I tried everything and everything 5x. Several 2-3 day corporate presentation courses at $3-5k a pop, expensive speaking coaches, even anxiety medications with crazy side effects. After spending at least $20,000 of my company's money (or my own) and almost 18 years researching every blog out there:
- Nothing quieted that inner voice of anxiety. No one actually taught me how to overcome the fear.
- The PHOBIA itself.
MY TRANSFORMATION & HOW IT'S RELAVENT TO YOU.
Fast forward almost 18 years while on a business trip in Tokyo, I was in my hotel room studying my meeting notes. I was worried the client might expect me to stand up and introduce myself and the material.
I started to have another anxiety attack. “Oh god please no, there has got to be a way I thought”. And so for the thousandth time in so many years, I googled “fear of public speaking”, but it came up with local ads in Japanese.
And that’s when I found my cure by the way of a small miracle. I found one ad in English! A local therapist in Japan; only he was a British panic disorder researcher living in Japan.
I called him. We spoke and he provided me with all kinds of words and methodologies I never heard before. He was not cheap, not even close at $5000, but this man knew something nobody else taught. And so I thought of this as the BEST investment of time and money in MYSELF. I stuck with him, using late night or 5am skype sessions from the U.S.
Within 30 days, I was CURED. I never looked back. He wasn’t even a doctor! Just a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) researcher. A normal guy like me who had overcome his own life tribulations and started helping people. I never had another anxiety or panic attack again since. WORTH EVERY PENNY!
LOOK MOM; NO HANDS!
Me now!
Today, and for over seven years; I LOVE presenting. And since nobody else likes it, I’m kind of the “department presenter” now.
Do I get some nerves, meh… yeah, but I got this…just nail the first :30, right!
I’m very confident now and with my new skill and visibility as a leader, I finally moved in senior leadership. I’m having fun again, and happy in career and personal life.
I even wrote my own vows at my wedding.
And not only was I the best man at my friend’s wedding recently, but the MC cancelled the morning of. I went from best man to also saving the wedding as the stand-in. Yep I rocked that microphone for 4 hours and MC’ed an entire wedding from start to finish! Who am I?!!
Sure…I’m still introverted, but my alter-ego is that extroverted guy who loves being center of attention when taking clients out for dinner. I’m the funny professional guy now. I’m a gosh darn wedding MC!!
CURED. Strong word, the word “cured”. However, I am living proof, as a previous severely panic-disordered guy, that it is truly possible to overcome your fear or phobia of public speaking.
And don’t forget I still live with Tourette’s Syndrome (something you CANNOT cure) and stammer when I present. But it does't bother me anymore! So as living proof and with a badge of honor as potentially a worst-case Case Study:
Yes - YOU can be CURED of your fear of public speaking. And we are talking in just several weeks of re-wiring your thought process and performing easy at-home exercises that fly in the face of logic of ALL those expensive seminars, experts and gurus out there that are actually making your anxiety and phobia 9-35x worse (fact) without even knowing it.
About 30 days is all it took me… and again… wherever you fall on the Glossophobia fear spectrum, I was hammering an “11” on a scale from 1 to 10 when it comes to fear of public speaking and stage fright!
YOUR TRANSFORMATION
“Pay it forward”. I love that phrase.
You may not realize it yet, but TODAY IS YOUR LUCKY DAY. You stumbled upon the BEST game and life changing blog article you will ever read, if you want to overcome your fear of public speaking, presenting, speeches, or even giving a toast. Maybe even become a wedding MC!
You see going back to the REAL REASON why all those public speaking courses, coaches, experts and gurus cannot help you is because, to be quite honest, they are totally clueless how to overcome a PHOBIA.
The actual fear and phobia itself within public speaking. They have no certifications or schooling in phobias, let alone Glossophobia, which is an extremely unique phobia and sits in its very own dedicated class of phobias... also the #1 PHOBIA ... over DEATH.
These coaches and courses provide you with 60s & 70s outdated silly deep breathing and other useless meditative techniques for 5 minutes, then waste two days on to how improve your content and craft .... never spending another minute on the REAL reason you attended... to get over your FEAR!
That’s where I come in.
That’s where I bridge that gap the size of the Grand Canyon.
You see; I am not only transformed and cured; but as a ~20 year ISO Certified Life and Health Coach, I also studied, researched and mentored under Leeds Psychology out of London and received my certification as a Mental Health Ambassador as a Public Speaking Phobia & Panic Attack Expert. I’m not a doctor, but I know just enough not to be dangerous! Phobias and anxiety and panic attacks stay clear away from me now!
And now I have transformed well over 150 peoples lives with my ON-LINE Course and 1:1 ZOOM coaching on weekends and evenings when I can. The testimonials and feedback are nothing less than INCREDIBLE!
I’m super excited as I also released my 100% ALL-ONLINE COURSE, creating a super affordable option, providing a much larger global outreach to touch, and transform as many lives as possible. Plus you can always option to add an a la carte 1:1 Zoom call. Of course I still offer a "Done With You" course & coaching package that includes private 1:1 ZOOM calls.
THE CURE! WE ARE GOING TO “SUN TZU” YOUR PHOBIA!
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” - Sun Tzu, The Art of War
I love this quote by the infamous Chinese general and philosopher. It could not be more true when it comes to CONQUERING your fear and phobia of public speaking! Until you learn your enemy…which is your brain's fear response systems… and yourself (your personal physiological symptom and anxious inner voice triggers) , you cannot be cured and you will live with fear forever.
Many know that anxiety and panic attacks are part of the fight or flight response. It is true. But it is MUCH deeper than that. And until you peel the layers of the onion and understand the why… only then can you know the enemy (how your brain processes) and yourself (how you react) … and ONLY then can we “SUN TZU” your fear of public speaking forever!
INTRODUCING: PUBLIC SPEAKING CURE
From Stage Fright to Spotlight
Overcome Public Speaking Anxiety in Just 14-28 Days so You can Speak Confidently in Front of Audiences WITHOUT:
High Anxiety, Pounding Heart, Sweating, Quivering Voice, Flushing, Trembling Hands, Anxious Inner Voice, Tunnel Vision, Brain Freeze, Weak Legs, Avoidance, and even Panic Attacks.
THERE ARE 5 CATEGORIES OF PUBLIC SPEAKING ANXIETY FROM LOW TO SEVERE.
3 FALL INTO PHOBIA.
WHICH ARE YOU?
NEXT STEP: TAKE YOUR FREE SPEAKING ANXIETY SELF ASSESSMENT QUIZ & WATCH MY 50 MINUTE SPEAKING PHOBIA WEBINAR
WHAT IF: I could literally CURE your FEAR and Phobia of Public Speaking & Presenting within 4 Weeks from the Comfort of YOUR home WITHOUT practicing in front of people.
HOW: Using My SIGNATURE Non-Exposure Method; taught only in IVY League and Top Global Universities, we will re-wire your ANXIOUS brain and CONQUER your FEAR and phobia (even panic attacks) from the privacy and comfort of your home.
Non-Exposure means you will not even approach a microphone until you are 100% CURED!
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Thank you for reading!
Robert Summa
ISO Certified Speaking Phobia Expert
(Transcript)
Hey guys, Bob Summa here welcome back to public speaking cure the only channel on YouTube that is dedicated to helping you get over your fears and phobias, especially with public speaking, if you have them.
0:17
So in today's video I'm going to go over my very first panic attack associated with public speaking, but more importantly, how it's relevant to you and your story. And as you'll see, 99% of all the information you've been told out there is just incorrect, and that is how it's relevant to you. Because if you're like me, 20 years ago, you've been looking on the internet researching blogs, you've probably taken seminars you probably coaches might even try medication, only to find out that everything out there, is just 100% Incorrect when it comes to how you get over your fears or phobias of public speaking.
1:18
So before we dive into my story. I'm going to use a really cheesy 80s movie analogy I just love using these because it really helps explain my story and how you can kind of relate to him, and I'm sure everybody out there wants to karate kid in. If you watch The Karate Kid, everybody remembers Danielson right data someone's getting bullied in school he's getting his butt kicked. He was in a new place, and he hated going to school and he was avoiding school, right, and kind of like we avoid public speaking because we're afraid of it, and then he found his Mr. Miyagi. Well, before I go into my story. At the end you will see what happened to me so stay tuned as it goes my story and how it relates to the Karate Kid. So back when I was 27 years old, I was doing really great at my company was called Westinghouse and for those who don't know Westinghouse Westinghouse in the 90s was like the Google and Walmart, and maybe even Apple, maybe combined, it was that big, and maybe not that big but it was pretty big company, and I was literally the youngest manager. In Westinghouse history. At the age of 26. So I'm 27 years old, and I was invited to a speaking engagement down in your city from one of my clients. I was really jumping at that opportunity right how much better can I just keep that trajectory going upwards and up that corporate ladder so I was really excited to do this. I go down, I'm on the train. I got my computer with me, I got my briefcase with me I'm looking sharpened by Sue, you know, I'm confident, I'm young, and I'm gonna do a presentation for this boardroom, and that's when it happened.
2:54
So I walk into the building, and I go into the boardroom and all sudden, boom, it hit me only, it wasn't really a boom, it was more of a whoosh, feeling that came over me, and that was feeling that came over me happened when I wanted that room and I looked into that, and I saw 75 people in there, or maybe more, And I was really honestly expecting like 15 people. I was not expecting a large audience 75 people. And as soon as I walked in I saw the people in all their eyes when I meet definitely hit me as broke out to media sweat. My client is like, this is Bob Zuma, and he's gonna do a presentation on the Westinghouse systems.
3:37
I looked over and there's a podium, and there's a screen, and she was about to have me stand in front of that huge room and do the whole presentation from that standpoint at that podium, and I had a panic attack. So, I get this weird feeling over me, and I looked at her, she saw me in it she was like, are you okay with me. Are you okay, the eyes really only empty she asked me that she was more like that facial expression of, oh my god, are you alright, and I excuse myself to go to the bathroom really quick. So I run into the bathroom. I'm hyperventilating, I'm sweating and I'm just throwing water all over my body, I'm trying to move my hair I'm trying to move my Sue, but I was pretty cold water on my face, and I was hyperventilating, and I looked at my hands were shaking. And I had this anxious voice going in my head. My heart was pounding out of my heart. And I was like what's going on with me my dying here what was happening. And that's when I realized I was having my first panic attack and never have well before, never had a panic attack my entire life. So, it really hit me hard. So I did go back into the room.
4:45
And I asked him to sit down. In, she knew I was in a bad place. If you let me sit down and do my presentation there, and I battled through it, I battled through with the shaky hands i i was drinking water and I saw my hand shaking, you can water I felt my heart pounding through my voice the quivering of my voice, so I never wanted to experience that experience again, I was humiliated when I walked out of that room, I went from top of my game, young 27 Going up the corporate ladder to literally a freefall, and I hit rock bottom there, I knew I never want to feel that feeling again. So I went into an avoidance pattern, I knew the higher you go up that corporate ladder, the more presentations, you get to give, because that's what they do, when you become a director or VP or higher, you do a lot of presenting you're always on that stage or talking to your company. So, I took a sideways step. And I didn't want to go up that ladder I took a different route and in, I'll go into that more later but basically I want to avoid public speaking at all costs, but it wasn't like an inch wide thing. I tried everything out there, I tried all the seminars, I tried coaches and read books, and I even, nothing was working for me. I even went to a psychiatrist in tried medications and thank God I hadn't learned reactions with medications because, honestly, now I know better, that the stuff really works. When it comes to overcoming your fears and phobias that are associated with public speaking. So, all those years. I avoided public speaking. And fast forward, I find my Mr Miyagi, in here's where the movie comes back into play. So fast forward 20 years later and I'm in Tokyo. I'm about to meet my clients the next day and I was studying my presentation notes and I started thinking, wow, what did they have me stand up. This was a new group I'd never met before and I was really afraid that they might have me stand in front of the room, and I didn't know how big the audience was going to be when you go out there, you're expected maybe 1520 But they can can have 50 people. So I started having that fear come back to me, the same one I had 20 years prior. So I did what I always do, for the 1,000th time I go on Google Japan like Google's fear the phobia of public speaking, but I forgot I was in Japan so they came up in Japanese.
7:07
And that's when I found my Mr Miyagi, who was one at just one ad in English if I clicked on it, there was a person who who actually specializes in panic attack. It also fiercer phobia public speaking. So I contacted the office, and he was busy in us he was two hours away, he wasn't even in Tokyo. But he said a few words to me in a wrestling words on the on the other website that's never heard before, nothing that was ever practiced in the United States was actually counterintuitive to everything I've read about getting over your fears of public speaking so I stuck with them. I stuck with my Mr Miyagi, and I paid a lot of money for him but I thought this was the best investment in myself for my career and for my life, because my life took a turn to. Don't forget, not just your career that takes a huge hit, but I declined being the best men for my friend because I didn't want to get the best speech in front of 300 people. I never want to get on stage new karaoke with my friends, I just said I was a bad singer. Actually, I'm not a bad singer, but I didn't want to get on stage and sing in front of people is all that fear phobia of being in front of people. So I stopped with him, and I paid, I think about $5,000 in over four to five weeks, he literally cured. And when I say cured me, I'm talking about. I've never had a panic attack. In over seven years, and now I'm like the public speaker from my from my department my company, I speak in front of the entire company, I speak about the entire departments. Do I get nervous. Yeah, everybody gets nerves, but this is normal nerves, this isn't that anxiety attack. So since then, I know, research, a lot about the phobia fears I want to learn more about what Miyagi told me by Mr Miyagi, he told me everything but I want to research more. So what I did was I really deep research, to all the top Ivy League professors in psychology and the top universities, I learned a lot more Adler, the reason why the whole reasoning behind it, which really helped me since since then. I'm now certified so what I did was I tutor on elite psychology at a London, and I passed the rigorous test, and I am now officially a certified mental health ambassador, which means I am now able to help people with their fears the phobia legally. So, that's my story. And I wanted to share that with you because I think you can probably relate to it, it's a relatable story for a lot of people, because, as I've said before, claustrophobia. Also, which is the official term for public speaking is the biggest phobia, in the world. 95% of people out there have some nerves of public speaking, but again 80% That's a big chunk 80% of people have the moderate to severe, severe being the most of your being panic attacks like I have, so you're not alone. And I'm here to tell you that I can help you overcome using my methodologies. And again, in my signature method. I do not use exposure therapy which is one of the biggest things that everybody out there gets wrong, they always want you to do the practice makes perfect. In studying your content and nailed the first 30 in, you just have to be, you know it's not golf, it's not like you just keep broke up here to get in Destiny overcome your fear phobia. If you go up there you have that experience like I did, I can tell you that you're never gonna do it again. So is not like other phobias, where exposure is the answer. When it comes to public speaking. That is not the answer. Exposure therapy does not work, and I will show you my signature theory, my signature method, that really works the best in. I'm living proof of it. So if you're excited, don't forget to hit the subscribe button, there's gonna be a lot more for me, I'm going to be your Mr Miyagi and Daniel son. If you're out there, I'm here to help you out. It was great talking to you today. I hope you enjoyed my story and I hope that you found helps kind of relates to you, because again you are not alone when it comes to this fear and phobia of public speaking thing.
Learn about my personal transformation to overcome my fear of public speaking (Glossophobia) and how it is relevant to YOU!
Welcome to Public Speaking Cure; the ONLY channel on Youtube that is dedicated to helping you overcome and get over your fear of public speaking. Statistics show that the fear of public speaking is the most common phobia, also known as glossophobia.
Many people fear speaking or presenting more than death. Some people call it stage fright or public speaking anxiety. Some even get panic attacks. This channel is dedicated to helping you overcome and conquer your fears and phobias of public speaking (glossophobia /stage fright) with proven techniques, tips, and practices.
My one of a kind SIGNATURE method uses a NON-EXPOSURE therapy, which is unlike 99% of ALL speaking programs, corporate seminars, presentation coaches, and stage fright specialists out there. Using my proven method only taught in the Top Ivy League and Universities, you will quickly overcome ANY level of fear, anxiety, stage fright, and even panic attacks associated with Public Speaking (Glossophobia), presenting, speeches, and social networking to EMPOWER you with a COMPLETE TRANSFORMATION to reach both your career, life aspirations.
Robert Summa: Certified Public Speaking Phobia Expert & Coach Specialties: Glossophobia (fear of public speaking), stage fright, presenting, communication skills, motivation, anxiety, panic attacks
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Today we will discuss the Truth About the Fear of Public Speaking! Is Everything You Learned Wrong? You may be SHOCKED to learn was is making your fears and phobias worse!
Welcome to Public Speaking Cure; the ONLY channel on Youtube that is dedicated to helping you overcome and get over your fear of public speaking. Statistics show that the fear of public speaking is the most common phobia, also known as glossophobia.
Many people fear speaking or presenting more than death. Some people call it stage fright or public speaking anxiety. Some even get panic attacks. This channel is dedicated to helping you overcome and conquer your fears and phobias of public speaking (glossophobia /stage fright) with proven techniques, tips, and practices.
My one of a kind SIGNATURE method uses a NON-EXPOSURE therapy, which is unlike 99% of ALL speaking programs, corporate seminars, presentation coaches, and stage fright specialists out there. Using my proven method only taught in the Top Ivy League and Universities, you will quickly overcome ANY level of fear, anxiety, stage fright, and even panic attacks associated with Public Speaking (Glossophobia), presenting, speeches, and social networking to EMPOWER you with a COMPLETE TRANSFORMATION to reach both your career, life aspirations.
Robert Summa: Certified Public Speaking Phobia Expert & Coach Specialties: Glossophobia (fear of public speaking), stage fright, presenting, communication skills, motivation, anxiety, panic attacks
#PublicSpeakingCure #RobertSumma #FearOfPublicSpeaking
