Are you secretly terrified of public speaking, hiding behind slides, scripts, and numbers, hoping nobody notices your hands shaking? You are not alone.

In this episode of The Story I'm Telling Myself, host Rita Ernst sits down with storytelling expert John Elbing to dismantle the crippling anxiety that keeps so many of us standing in our own way.

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As a premier personal growth podcast, we dive deep into how stage fright can be transformed into a professional superpower.

John shares his cringeworthy early career horror stories—including the exact presentation where the technology failed and the audience walked out one by one. He explains why standard advice like memorizing scripts or "imagining the audience naked" backfires.

His breakthrough "Standpoint" framework shifts your focus from proving your own expertise to understanding your audience's struggles, so you can replace performance anxiety with deep connection.

Listeners of our mindset podcast will learn actionable strategies to instantly bring ease to high-stakes situations.

Whether you are looking for a self-improvement podcast to boost your career, a positivity podcast to rewrite your inner narrative, or a personal transformation podcast to silence your inner critic, this episode delivers the tools to overwrite narratives of shame and self-doubt.

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