How can we use stress to speak more effectively? John Block of Effective Presentations

One thing that I've learned to accept, and I tell any of my clients or seminar attendees that the nerves don't go away with public speaking. Don't expect that to happen. Mick Jagger still gets nervous before he goes on stage. Al Pacino is still nervous before he shoots a scene or goes on stage. The key is that you can actually use those nerves to your advantage. Recognize it's just energy moving inside you. And nervousness and excitement are just two sides of the same coin.

Hi, my name is Stuart Alsop, and this is my podcast, Crazy Wisdom, where I interview creative people about how they work with and manage the stress that is inherent in creative work. Anybody who's ever created something knows that it comes with stress. When you put something out there, you worry about it. You want it to succeed. Sometimes it doesn't, sometimes it does. And anytime we separate the reality from what we want reality to be, it creates stress. Today I interviewed John Block. John created his own public speaking and coaching company and ended up selling it to and joining a company called Effective Presentations. I actually reached out to John because I have been listening to my own podcast and I realize I say a lot and I have a lot of filler words and I don't really put a lot of enthusiasm into my voice sometimes and I want to figure out how to get better. And so I talked to him and I asked him how do I. How do we. What his thoughts are on the stress of public speaking is and how we can kind of work with this in an intelligent and discriminating way. I learned a lot in this episode and a lot that can actually serve