Overcoming Job Interview Anxiety | Podcast Episode

“Anxiety when channeled positively can actually be a good thing” ~ Amanda Tobe

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Does the thought of speaking about yourself make your heart race and palms sweat? In this podcast episode, I speak to Emilie Aries, founder of BossedUp.org about so many things to help people develop confidence with public-speaking. We talk about the power of visualization and why it’s so hard, the tendency to become self-focused when we are nervous, breathing techniques to calm our nervous system, why creating a speech anxiety hierarchy is helpful and learning to view our butterflies as “performance energy” instead.

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