Power Public Speaking Harness Your Fear

Few things are capable of invoking the kind of anxiety and terror as the thought of making a public speech. The fight-or-flight response triggered by the idea is a defense mechanism no longer useful to us in this modern age. In this book, you'll learn easy and powerful techniques to override this all-too-common fear, and begin to view the idea of public speaking with excitement and confidence.

Few things are capable of invoking the kind of anxiety and terror as the thought of making a public speech. The fight-or-flight response triggered by the idea is a defense mechanism no longer useful to us in this modern age. In this book, you'll learn easy and powerful techniques to override this all-too-common fear, and begin to view the idea of public speaking with excitement and confidence. The techniques discussed within the book were developed by author Michael McCarthy and used in real time. The beauty and power of the techniques lie in their simplicity. In under one hour, you'll gain the knowledge to exchange your fear for excitement and give an amazing speech with self-assurance and poise.

Michael McCarthy is a serial entrepreneur and instructor at Harvard Extension School. He started his first business at just 16 years old, and his first three weeks of sales financed his freshman year at New York University. Between 1994 and 2004, he was the #1 Stock Market Timer in the United States and raised $100 million in client assets with an inbound marketing referral program he developed. After a brief period of early retirement, Michael founded Budi Products in 2010, a food company designing brain-healthy gourmet snacks which was acquired in 2015. McCarthy now focuses on teaching entrepreneurship, sales, leadership, and public speaking. He developed the Leadership Sailing Program for MIT Sloan Executive Education in 2016 and is the founder of Power Speaking Coach, a Boston-based consulting firm.