Public Speaking Secrets — Introduction

Welcome to Public Speaking Secrets. My name is Wes Rogers, and I’m extremely excited to be writing this book. I have been a member of Toastmasters International for over thirty years. I have held every club officer position and have served as District Public Relations Officer. I earned Toastmasters’ top educational award, the Distinguished Toastmaster […]

Public Speaking Secrets — Control Nervousness

Being nervous about giving a speech to an audience is normal. There is even a word for this fear, “glossophobia”. Psychologists have studied glossophobia and attributed this fear to what they call the illusion of transparency. In experiments on public speaking anxiety in relation to the illusion of transparency, they focused on the speaker’s perception […]