Delight in the Limelight

021. Love the Sound of Your Speaking Voice Discover the joy of reading out loud, allowing your lips to dance and your voice to resonate with clarity and expressiveness. Embrace the dynamic range of your voice, infusing your words with a spectrum of emotions and creating a captivating experience for your listeners. Listen to the Podcast Here Connect with Linda Download your Free Speaker Empowerment...

020. Breathing Easy for Speaking Freedom This episode guides you to build a strong and harmonious relationship with your breath. By embracing its nourishing qualities and developing the capacity to feel more—both the uncomfortable and the pleasurable—you can integrate a sense of ease, pleasure, and serenity into your neurophysiology. Your breath becomes a dependable ally, offering you relaxation,...

019. Build Your Confident Speaking Presence You’ll get practical tips on how you can incorporate practice of these elements right now into your life so that you can enhance your effectiveness in all the speaking you do. Listen to the Podcast Here Connect with Linda Download your Free Speaker Empowerment Kit with 3 mental rehearsals to pre-pave your speaking confidence whether you’re speaking live,...

018. The Power of Positive Regard on Being Seen In this episode, we explore the power of positive regard and its profound impact on our self-belief and speaking confidence. Join me as we delve into the art of receiving compliments and overcoming the common tendencies to deflect or downplay them. Discover the underlying reasons behind these behaviors and uncover strategies to embrace compliments an...

017. Handling Mistakes When You Speak Learn how to handle mistakes when speaking and not let them disrupt your composure. Learn six mental reframes and reminders to help you repattern your thinking about mistakes, and hear examples of how to handle various mistakes that may occur during a speech or presentation. Listen to the Podcast Here Connect with Linda Download your Free Speaker Empowerment K...

016. How to Get Comfy on Camera Although speaking is our human design, getting on video is not. Most advice out there suggests you just turn on the camera and make a video, to just do it and trust that you’ll get comfortable with it over time. In this episode, I offer a new approach to practicing feeling comfy on camera which involves breaking it down step by step so that you build your camera con...

015. Heal Your Self-Image for Speaking Confidence In this episode, we take a close look at healing your self-image. I go into the ways it can impact your speaking with confidence as well as suggest six tools and mindsets that you can use to heal your self-image so that it no longer stands in your way. Listen to the Podcast Here Connect with Linda FREE download – The Speaker Preparation Checklist T...

014. Transform the Inner Critic for Speaking Confidence Although you might be worried about what others will think, say, or do, when you speak, usually, you are your own harshest critic. In this episode, I explore the importance of restoring safety within ourselves in order to boost our speaking confidence. I’ll also offer practical tools to transform the inner critic into an inner ally and becomi...

013. Healing Modalities for Clearing Trauma Part 2 It’s not enough to know where you fear of speaking came from. You also need to clear it away. In this episode, we explore the foundational tools of working through forgiveness, dance, and ritual for healing past experiences so you can move toward your speaking with comfort and ease. Listen to the Podcast Here Connect with Linda Download your Free...

012. Healing Modalities for Clearing Trauma Part 1 In this episode, I share with you three foundational tools for healing trauma and improving speaking confidence. Through Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), Creative Visualization, and Creative Journaling, you can create new experiences out of old ones and shift your perspective on past events, freeing yourself from triggers that hold you back from...

011. How Healing Works to Clear Speaking Anxiety In this episode I dive into the healing journey necessary for moving past speaking anxiety. I unpack what a healing journey looks like to be thorough, effective, and long lasting so you can feel free of these triggers and delight in the limelight. Listen to the Podcast Here Connect with Linda FREE download – The Speaker Preparation Checklist The Boo...

010. Corporal Punishment and School Bullying on Speaking Confidence If you or someone you know has experienced bullying or physical punishment in school, this episode provides important insights and resources for healing and building speaking confidence. Listen to the Podcast Here Connect with Linda FREE download – The Speaker Preparation Checklist The Book: Delight in the Limelight: Overcome your...

009. Reveal to Heal: The Rules from School There are big and small ways that schooling programs you to be afraid to express yourself. Were you a rule follower or rule breaker in school? Whichever path you choose could have impact on your free self-expression. Listen and reflect on your experience with these 4 ways that the rules in school might have inhibited you in your speaking confidence. Liste...

008. Silenced by Grades: The Impact on Speaking Confidence The root causes of speaking anxiety are often rooted in our school experience. A major feature of school is the grading system. I encourage you to reflect on how this system may have affected how you feel about yourself, how you view others, and how you look at speaking itself so you can continue to untangle the web of uncertainty when spe...

007. Reveal to Heal: Traumas from Home The first step to overcome your fear of speaking is to reflect on the experiences you had growing up that may have led you to believe it wasn’t safe to speak up or be the center of attention. We begin with our relationships with our family. Listen to reflect on your own experiences. Listen to the Podcast Here Connect with Linda FREE download – The Speaker Pre...

006. Simple, Effective Rituals to Manage Your Speaking Nerves While you work to uncover the root causes of your speaking anxiety, here are 6 simple yet effective preparation rituals you can use to manage your fear so you can speak with more confidence and serenity. From mental rehearsal and inner encouragement, to movement and mantras, these rituals can bring you to a place of grounded focus when...

005. The Inner Freedom Framework for Speaking Confidence The Inner Freedom Framework provides a roadmap to being a grounded, present, and confident speaker with authentic style. It involves clearing away the stuff that keeps you from being present, in you mind, body, and emotions. Listen in to learn how it can work for you. Listen to the Podcast Here Connect with Linda The Book: Delight in the Lim...

004. Limiting Beliefs Behind the Fear of Speaking I discuss the concept of “Set Point” as described in The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks. There are four types of limiting beliefs according to Hendricks: not being good enough, feeling like a burden, feeling it’s not safe to outshine others, and fearing disloyalty. I give examples of how these things can impact your speaking confidence. Listen to the Po...

003. Psychic Clutter Under the Fear of Speaking Psychic clutter refers to experiences and beliefs stored in our subconscious mind that impact our experience in the limelight without our awareness. The four types of psychic clutter are past experiences, meaning we’ve ascribed to these experiences, messages we received, and negative thought patterns. When you declutter and heal the past experiences...

002. Scary Speaking Experiences and their Root Cause In today’s episode, I share my own personal experiences of awful and scary public speaking and what led me to discover the key to overcome the fear 25 years later. I recall a time when I couldn’t utter a single sound in public. However, a decade later, I found myself delivering a 90-second speech that left a huge impact on my audience. As...

001. Busting Myths about the Fear of Speaking There’s a lot of well-intentioned advice out there about the fear of speaking: “Feel the fear and do it anyway. Just do it, Ignore the fear, don’t let it hold you back.” Explore the impact of limiting beliefs on speaking confidence and learn how to recognize them with today’s episode. I discuss the concept of “Set Point” as described in The...

000. Delight in the Limelight Trailer Do you dread speaking in public? Would you love to LOVE the limelight? Join me each week, beginning February 14th, 2023, for processes and expert tips to overcome the anxiety and free up your self-expression. My goal is to excite, motivate, and inspire you along your journey to make speaking something you look forward to. I’ll also be chatting with guest exper...