I AM a public speaker

I AM a public speaker! 🗣📢

Those are words that some years ago I would never have thought I’d say.

I was terrified of public speaking. I would break out in a cold sweat just at the mention of doing a speech.

In 2008, I had the one and only panic attack of my life prior to my first significant public speaking engagement to 50 Business Change Directors at an event for my old recruitment company Chase Zander, organised by @emilydoe.dandelionstories in a previous life!

I had to lie down in the boardroom for an hour with the blinds down and calm myself down.

I somehow got up and did the talk. I’m embarrassed to say that truth be told I was only introducing the first speaker, which tells you how much fear I was carrying.

Shortly after that, I discovered NLP, healing, coaching and the inner journey and started to face and work through my fears, doubts, and insecurities.

Suffice to say that unbeknown to me, I’d been afraid of sooo much 😱

It’s been an amazing journey. I’ve gone full circle now, and I’m speaking again. A big thank you to @cosmicsongbird and @emilydoe.dandelionstories for inviting me to speak at their event The Power Of Us this week.

Thanks to all the amazing friends, coaches, and healers who supported me to get to this point. Too many to list but I’m so grateful to all of you guys.

Thanks to @iamrosiepeacock for the amazing photos of me as a public speaker – yay!

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