Fsh!

What else is happening?

Oh, God! She's killing it!

I can't follow this act.

What do you call a deer with no eyes and no legs?

I can't do this.

Still no idea.

What do you mean you can't do this?

It's too overwhelming.

Look at all these people here.

Oh! I don't want to be here.

I want to be a home.

You're gonna be fine!

Really?

Yeah.

How?

I'm gonna show you, and you in five steps how anyone can overcome the fear of public speaking!

Who are you talking to?

Never mind them. Let's focus on you.

Let's start with some breathing techniques,

and you guys as well, if you're practicing for a public speaking event, use these techniques, follow along with me.

Who are you talking to?

Shh, just breathe with me.

Look, if you breathe like that it's gonna make you all panicky.

It increases your stress levels, increases your adrenaline.

It's rubbish.

What we want to do is breathe from the lower part of your body.

Breathe from your diaphragm.

-Imagine the whole bottom part of your body is filling with air. -Okay.

And release all the air out of your system.

And you can do this three times, four times, as many times as you need, in order to feel comfortable.

Is there someone out there?

Breathe in for four.

And out for four.

Feel more relaxed?

Yeah, calmer.

The most important thing is to know your subject.

Research your subject as best as you can.

Do you know everything there is to know about it?

If someone has questions about it, could you answer those questions?

I mean for example, Brian, you're a comedian!

Do you know your jokes?

Yeah.

Are you excited about them? Are they funny to you?

Yeah, yeah.

That's all that matters.

If you're interested in it, your audience are gonna love it.

Okay.

Find a passion in that subject, learn to love it!

If you enjoy talking about it, it's gonna make it much easier to talk about in public.

I've got the script.

That's great, but look, when you're practicing a speech it's better not to have a script where you have to memorise every single word.

It's better just to have bullet points.

You know which pieces of information you have to give.

The words which you use in order to explain those points are not super important.

It's the message that counts.

Remember it like you're telling a joke for example.

I am telling a joke.

Exactly.

So, what if I forget my lines or I can't remember what I'm saying?

Don't try and be perfect.

Everyone in public speaking makes mistakes, and that's fine.

If you skip a line or if you make a mistake, don't worry, it happens.

You can always come back to that part later in the speech, and don't apologize for making a mistake.

There's no shame in correcting yourself.

Have you practiced over and over again until it feels natural?

Yep.

Practicing until you can't fail.

Until it's impossible to forget.

This is key to feeling more calm and more confident about your speech before delivering it.

Just remember people want you to succeed.

No one here wants you to fail.

Well, what about those two over there at the bar just chatting to each other?

Don't worry about them.

In every audience there's gonna be people bored, asleep, on their phone, people that just don't want to be there.

You can say whatever you want.

You're still not gonna get some people in the audience's attention.

Okay, your body language, I mean how are you planning to stand on stage?

Well...

I mean, no, you you're gonna be... shit.

Try to be open, a bit loose, that stage is yours!

Feel free to move around.

Show how confident you are!

And look, sometimes... you can take a strategic pause.

Taking a strategic pause can make you not only seem confident, but it can also give you time to think about what you're going to say...

...next.

And finally: Eye contact.

You don't want to be looking at everyone in the audience in the eye.

That's kind of creepy.

Where am I looking then?

There's this really great trick that you can use.

Once you're on stage, don't look at people in the eye.

Just look just above their heads.

That way it still looks like you're interacting with the audience, but you're not.

And you feel a bit more relaxed and confident about it.

Who are you talking to?

It doesn't matter.

Are you ready? you ready to go on stage?

Yep!

You're gonna be amazing!

-Yup! -Go get em, tiger!

Okay!