Better Choices For Life: Your Coaching Guide

Welcome to Episode 02! In the next three episodes – Before, During, and After Your Talk – we will focus on strategies that can help you overcome your nerves and improve your public speaking skills. We share simple, practical, and new tools that you can use to dramatically improve your public speaking. To develop individual techniques in one-on-one coaching, contact Julia or Nakul via their pages on this website.

In this episode, you’ll learn how to:

* Pause, and punctuate your talk, as you can only talk when you are breathing out!

* Think in terms of what you WANT INSTEAD of what you do NOT want.

* Channel your nervous energy into enthusiasm as successful speakers and performers do.

* Prepare and practice your script until you memorise it.

* Get into the powerful states of Confidence, Passion, and Enthusiasm leading up to your talk by altering your body just before.

Links and Resources mentioned in this episode:

* TED talk by Amy Cuddy http://blog.ted.com/2014/09/23/amy-cuddy-power-poses-through-pop-culture/

Welcome to our first podcast episode! We are dedicating this first season of our podcast show ‘Better Choices for Life’ to an issue which is the No.1 complaint amongst our clients, and highly common among the general population. We are talking about ‘Anxiety’ and the problems associated with it, and offer you free tools and techniques to overcome it. If you follow the guidelines suggested in these episodes, you can expect to have a better response to a variety of situations which make you anxious, and enjoy more of what you truly want in your life.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

* About the structure of Anxiety and how you make it happen in your brain

* How to coach your brain to think differently and focus on what’s more useful

* Three Tips on how to end Anxiety by-

* Identifying and modifying your internal triggers

* Directing your attention to what you want and setting realistic outcomes

* Adjusting your muscles, breathing and internal imagery

Links and Resources mentioned in this episode:

* http://btci.stanford.clockss.org/cgi/reprint/2/4/325.pdf, (Barlow, Esler and Vitali, 1998, p 312)

* https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-real-story-risk/201211/the-thing-we-fear-more-death

* http://www.livescience.com/9125-woman-fear-intrigues-scientists.html

* http://www.transformations.net.nz/trancescript/nlp-and-the-treatment-of-anxiety.html

* http://www.lynntimpany.co.nz/building-outcome-bridges

* http://www.thesecretsofyoga.com/breathing/how-the-nostrils-work.html

* http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/16/brain-damaged-no-fear_n_797848.html