BY PETER WELTMAN, Fast Company
Public speaking is frightening. The National Social Anxiety Center places public speaking as the most common phobia behind death, spiders, and heights. Public speaking anxiety, or glossophobia, affects an astonishing 73% of the population. While I’ve hosted events and spoken at conferences all around the world, I’m no stranger to the sweaty palms, nausea, increased heart rate, weakened stance, blurred vision, and brain freeze that public speaking induces.