“It all boils down to our relative status in the history of our species when we would hang out in groups of around 150 people,” he says. “Relative status wasn’t who drives the fanciest car or who’s ...

Public speaking is frightening. The National Social Anxiety Center places public speaking as the most common phobia behind death, spiders, and heights. Public speaking anxiety, or glossophobia, ...

Anxiety and stress go with public speaking for all but a lucky few. Now a recent study underscores the importance of recognizing and accepting those emotions rather than trying to deny them. According ...

The fear of public speaking, also known as glossophobia, is the most common of all fears. Seventy-five percent of people have it, and I’m one of them. That probably surprises some people because ...

We've all heard this advice to ease anxiety around public speaking: Picture your audience naked. Naked bodies are funny, and it makes sense that this might lighten the mood. It always seems to work on ...

Change your relationship with public speaking by embracing time travel and positive self-talk. Using the wrong words to describe how you feel about public speaking might keep you in a state of anxiety ...

Vulnerability is hard for anyone. For some, it feels wrong to acknowledge weaknesses when you hold the power in a classroom.

When my younger sister called in November 2022 to say she was getting married, I was slow to connect the dots. “YAAAAY!” I screeched into the phone. Meg had been my maid of honor a couple of years ...

President Barack Obama works with Terry Szuplat, Senior Director for Speechwriting. Great communicators are made, not born: It’s a conclusion about public speaking that I’ve reached after two decades ...