From the course: Communicating with Confidence (2015)

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Making fake confidence real

Making fake confidence real

From the course: Communicating with Confidence (2015)

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Making fake confidence real

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- Ever hear of the expression that sometimes the worst thing that can happen to you turns out to be the best thing that happened to you? After my handful of panic attacks live on the air, I learned how to breathe properly, and the problem went away, but not for good. It came back one more time. It happened when I was invited to be one of two keynote speakers at a convention in Texas. I flew into George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston only to discover that the other keynote speaker was former president George H. W. Bush. Never before had I shared a stage with a president. I was nervous. Now a little nervousness is fine and natural, but I was about to follow a former president on stage, plus there were about 2,000 people in the audience. As I stood backstage waiting to go on, my nervousness turned to anxiety, and I felt something grab my ankles. The shark was back. The same shark that tried to swallow me on live TV was back, and this was the worst possible time for this to…

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