165. Sandra Zimmer: Five Steps to Overcome the Fear of Public Speaking, and Shine!
Time to Shine Podcast : Public speaking | Communication skills | Storytelling - A podcast by Oscar Santolalla
Sandra Zimmer is a Coach for Public Speaking, Presentation, Voice, Accent Reduction and Executive Presence. Her degrees in psychology, acting, voice, esoteric philosophy and meditation gave her the perfect background to discover how to transform the #1 fear. Sandra translated her struggles with her own fears into the Sandra Zimmer Method which is a holistic mind/body/emotion system to overcome stage fright and fear of public speaking. She coaches individuals and groups live at her company Self-Expression Center in Houston, Texas and virtually via video conferencing. She’s author of the book It’s Your Time to Shine: How to Overcome Fear of Public Speaking, Develop Authentic Presence and Speak from Your Heart. Sandra’s beginnings Sandra started her journey being an actress. One night during a performance she had an amazing experience that led her to try to figure out, over the next four years, a way to transform his background, knowledge and experience into a method to help people to overcome their fears and shine when they speak in front of groups. Beating the fear of public speaking Sandra’s mastery is about overcoming fear of public speaking, not by mechanical speaking skills, but by guiding people to become comfortable in their skin and confident to be who they are in front of other people. She learned how to facilitate people in front of groups to release what she calls the tension of being the center of attention so they feel safe to be themselves, and speak from their hearts, and shine. In Sandra’s knowledge, people who have the most stage fright have the potential to be stars at speaking because they have the feelings and emotions up to the surface where they can be used to create genuine emotional connection with listeners. About feeling frightened to speak For most people fear of public speaking is about fear of speaking in front of people, but Sandra’s experience has taught her that fear of public speaking is really about not being comfortable to be who you are at the center of the attention....