Discover You Voice, Speak With Confidence
Session Two

Recording of our first session, 17th March 2022

Fear of Public Speaking

  • Fear is an emotion, generally we make it a negative. Our goal is to change our perspective and turn our fear into a positive. 
  • Control and filter your thoughts - your thoughts produce your emotions. Fear is an emotion.
  • Fear is a made up story - it hasn't happened but our thinking makes us feel it has happened and our body manifests that way.
  • Fear tells us we will fail. We say when you give yourself permission to fail, you give yourself permission to fly.


Clarity & Conviction

  • To speak for impact, you need to know the end result your working towards. Be clear of your listener to feel and how to behave after listening to you.
  • Visualize how you and your audience are feeling once you have delivered your message, this is a powerful technique to help you get started with your message. This will work whether it will be with an audience of people, your spouse at the end of the table or your children.
  • Your conviction is powerful - your passion for what you are talking about will enhance your message.
  • It is very important to understand your audience before you speak, how they are feeling, what they are going through, what they are after and then talk. You have to go to where they are and then take them to where you want them to be.
  • Every word spoken from your mouth should be uplifting and encouraging. 
  • Sharing your own stories (related to theme) draw your audience near to you. You can inspire and stir the soul of you audience by sharing your journey - where some of your listeners may be and where you have already been before.

Safe Space

  • A safe space is where your listeners and you feel safe and comfortable to share.
  • Creating a safe space requires some boundaries to be set prior to conversation - that as we share there will be no judgement, there will be no condemnation and that whatever we share will be confidential.
  • There needs to be an agreement that we will end this conversation in a win/win. That we are doing this because we care for each other.
  • Safe space requires both parties to be honest and transparent to each other.
  • A safe space needs to be a dialogue. Both parties need to get a chance to hear each other out.

Video Assignment - Due 23rd March

Objective of this exercise is to do a 1min – 2min video addressing the below questions:


  • Imagine this, you have all the confidence in the world and no barriers. You are given the opportunity to speak to an audience, what would you like to speak on, where and to whom?


Please position yourself appropriately in front of the camera so that your hand movement and your upper body is seen in your video.

You will be evaluated on your conviction and passion for the topic.