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The emotional stages every speaker goes through don't disappear with experience. In fact, one of the most reassuring patterns I’ve seen after coaching thousands of speakers is that the emotional stages tend to remain remarkably consistent. The faces and contexts change, but the internal weather is often the same. The goal, then, isn’t to avoid these feelings or to treat them as proof you shouldn’t be on a stage. The goal is to recognize them, understand what they’re doing, an