Eric Edmeades teaches you the fast path to influence.
“I was phobic. Terrified. Jittering. I would stare at the stage, the faces in the audience, and I would be drenched in cold sweat.”
Eric Edmeades, like so many of us, used to consider public speaking as a kind of personal torture. And he felt that for the same reason that people consider public speaking to be among their top three fears. In fact, he offers three reasons for this:
But Edmeades has come a long way from his initial terror. Once a homeless 15-year-old, he now travels the world speaking to large audiences on subjects spanning health, business acumen, mental discipline – and the skill of speaking itself. He’s shared stages with Bill Clinton, Tony Robbins, and Sir Richard Branson.
As a result, he has become both an evangelist for – and a leading trainer of – public speaking.
But Edmeades insists he stumbled into his role as founder of Speaker Nation, a leading international public speaking training program.
“I was teaching business and a student asked me what’s the most effective kind of marketing. And it had become crystal clear to me. You can only conduct so many face-to-face meetings in a day. But from the stage, you can have 5,000 people paying rapt attention to your message. This is real power, as both the worst dictators, as well as the greatest forces for good – Martin Luther King first among them – have known and mastered.”
So what are the keys to a powerful, effective, influential stage talk? Edmeades lists a few:
The good news, says Edmeades, is that everyone is a born speaker.
“Just have two glasses of wine and it comes out! It’s already in you. Really, anybody can do this and excel. You just need a bit of training and to attune to the frequency of the audience. You get up there, make a strong claim that you're gonna be outstanding, live up to that claim, then receive the accolades. The hard part – but only in the beginning – is believing them all!”
Written by Adam Gilad
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