I would consider myself moderately anxious about public speaking. I remember the first few communication apprehensions I experienced in my personal and work life. With my personal experience, I was at church when I shared a testimony with the bible study. With my work encounter, I had to conduct status updates for two areas during project implementations and testing phases with a large group. In both situations, my heart pounded loudly right before I spoke and when the words came out of my mouth, I felt like I had to speak quickly like Speedy Gonzalez!
Early on, the source of my public speaking anxiety came from catastrophic failure where my inside voice would tell me that I would forget what I was going to say or my audience would negatively
Early on, the source of my public speaking anxiety came from catastrophic failure where my inside voice would tell me that I would forget what I was going to say or my audience would negatively