Okay, folks, this is the part of the course where we separate those who actually want to get over their fear of public speaking, versus those who just want to sit around and whine and cry and beat baby. I don't mean to sound like I'm insensitive. But I have a very, very specific exercise for you to do. And I feel so strongly about it. That I guarantee you. This will work and you will get over your fear of public speaking if you do what I asked you to do.

In fact, I feel so strongly I will give you your money back for this course I will make sure you get your money back from this course. Plus, I'll even send you a copy of my book. This was the number one USA Today bestseller Businessweek bestseller secret to foolproof presentations in a digital format. I'll send it to you, free of charge. If you try what I'm doing and you say you still have a fear of public speaking This is the part where people quit the course. And so I don't like TJ anymore.

I kind of like to be four banana like him anymore. Here's what I'm asking you to do. I need you to practice your speech, pull out of your pocket, a cell phone or any camera, and you got to record your speech. And you've got to watch it. Now I know some of your teach Anna, like the sound of my own voice or I don't like the way I look or, you know, my hair's falling out, or I'm getting jazz or my eyes are beating. I've heard it all before.

I've felt it before, too. Okay. But here's the thing, everyone in your audience, whether it's a classroom, or 1000 people at a trade association convention, they're all going to have to hear your voice. They're all going to have to watch you. So if they're going to have to, you might as well know what they're seeing and hearing. That's why it's critically important.

For you to practice on video, I can tell you very few people do this. It's emotionally hard to but it's not hard to do if this were a course on how to dunk a basketball, or become a world class violinist, or how to hit a hole and what those things are legitimately hard to do. And if I promised you I could have you do that in a day, I'd be lying. But this is different. Anyway, if you have the ability to move your mouth and have sounds come out and someone else perceives it as language, you can do what I'm asking you to do. doesn't even matter if you have your limbs or can walk around as long as you can talk.

You can do what I'm talking about. So I need you to practice your speech. You can lock yourself in a closet doesn't have to be in public in front of 1000 people. Practice your speech. Again, just pull out your cell phone, use a webcam Talk to it and record it. Now, if you stop there, you haven't done any good whatsoever.

You have to watch the video. When you watch the video, you have to take careful notes on what you like and what you don't like. I can tell you right now, if you're like most people, you're going to hate most of it. Join the club. Most people can't stand the sound of their own voice don't like the way they look. I had a client once.

She started watching and listening to her own video and she started to cry. Now is about to say what I normally do in those situations. Hey, relax. Nobody's 21 anymore. You know my hair's falling out. I'm getting wrinkles relax.

I was about to say that to her. But then I realized I couldn't because she in fact was 21. And you know what she was Miss Universe at the time. Had a fabulous day. Beyond Belief, and was gorgeous, extraordinarily gorgeous. She didn't like the way she sounded.

She'd like the way she looked. She claimed she'd never seen herself on video before. So if you don't like everything about how you sound, or everything about how you look, you are in good company. I can look at a video and say, Oh my gosh, more of my hair's falling out. I'm getting more real. What happened to my chin?

I mean, we can all point to things we don't like on video. It doesn't matter. You have to do it in the same way. You have to proofread and spellcheck a memo before you send somebody an email. If it's an important business document, you're going to have to refine and edit your presentation. Your presentation is not the PowerPoint slide.

It's not the type word, script, your presentation your talk. Your speech is you literally speaking so If you want to refine it or improve it, there is only one way to do it. You have to record it on video. Now when I got into this business 30 years ago, video cameras were big. They were expensive. A few people had them.

And you arguably had an excuse to not video rehearse every single speech, those excuses are gone. Everyone, at least in developed nations is completely surrounded by video cameras, every cell phone, every tablet, every iPad, every laptop has a video camera. So when you say Oh, I didn't get to it yet. I didn't get around to it. What you're really doing is saying, I'm very happy being nervous and fearful of public speaking and I don't want to get better. That's what you're saying.

So I'm not letting you off the hook. Don't kid yourself. You got to practice on video. Now if you practice on video wants and take notes of what you like and don't like and stop smoking. To help you at all, it's actually going to make you worse. Because that last image of yourself is going to be of this video where all you can do is think of the 33 things you hate about yourself.

You have to then quickly right away as soon as you finish watching it, stand up, or you could sit down, speak again and record it again. Don't try to solve every single problem, focus on one or two things you don't like. And do less of it this time. So if you saw yourself fidgeting a great deal the whole time with the ring on your finger. Try to give your same speech and not touch your ring finger focus on one or two things at a time. Watch the video.

Read it again. All the things in one column you didn't like all the things in another column you did like And ideally, the likes. The likes get higher, the dislikes go lower, and tell Get to the point where you actually like your speech and you're confident that this is the way you want to come across. This is the best you can be. Get think of it, as I mentioned in an earlier lesson, you're getting ready to go to the office, you it's a big meeting of that day, you're dressed exactly the way you want. You've looked in the mirror, you've shaved, you put on your makeup.

At that point, you're confident you look the best you can look, you're no longer worried that, oh, my hairstyle, my hair because my hair standing up, is my tie crooked. You know how you look. So you're not nervous. The exact same thing happens. When it comes to practicing your speech. on video.

You keep practicing, and keep practicing until you can point to the screen and say, Wow, if I can be as good as that guy or that woman. I can sound like that and look like that. I'll be happy. I'll be the star my company or my industry or my school. Now you might be able to do that in one take. It might take 100 takes, guess what?

Your audience doesn't care. I don't really care either. I mean, I'd like it to happen as quickly as possible. But all I care about is that you get to the point where you know, you look your best, you know, your sound your best. At that point, it becomes incredibly difficult to be nervous because you know how you're coming across. Now, I'm not nervous speaking to you right now, this is a form of public speaking, thousands of people are likely to see this.

I'm not nervous, not because I'm convinced that I'm the absolute best speaker in the world or the best looking person in the world. That's not it. It's just everything I'm saying to you. Now. I've said before on video, and I've watched it so I know. I can't come across any better than this.

I know how I look. I know how I sound. I know the speed of my voice. So I'm not With any nervousness or anxiety and not second guessing myself, and that's what makes me relaxed. And that's what makes this fun. Now you might not ever get to the point where you think of public speaking is fun.

But if you eliminate all the uncertainty, the wondering about how you're coming across, it makes it so much less stressful. So can you get ignore every single thing I say in this whole course if you follow this one tip, practice your speech on video until you like it. If you do that, I guarantee your nerves will be gone. Your fear of public speaking will be gone. If you don't do that. You're on your own