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Interested in learning more about speechwriting and public speaking courses? Find my courses here .    As a #TEDx curator and #speakercoach I get asked this a lot. A LOT. How do I give a #TEDxTalk? And how do I get selected? As our event’s YouTube and TED.com views catapulted to over 20 million views (with an average of 8 speakers a year and a total of 70 speakers), we began asking precisely that. What would you tell someone interested in giving a TEDx Talk? Well, this is the

Interested in learning more about speechwriting and public speaking courses? Find my courses here .    Have you heard the statistic that some people are more afraid of public speaking than death? Can it really be that bad? I suppose it can. The anxiety is real. I always ask clients: What about being on stage makes you so afraid? The answer is typically something like: 1. People will laugh at me. 2. I’ll be seen as a fraud because I really don’t know what I’m talking about. 3.

Interested in learning more about speechwriting and public speaking courses? Find my courses here .    Coming up with an idea is easy. Coming up with the idea is impossible. So, how do you come up with an idea that will captivate an audience and move them toward something? I find that there are generally three approaches to generating ideas: the hunter, the gatherer, and the explorer. First, the hunter is out searching for something. They have something very specific in mind