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Your Delivery Prepare an outline to keep you on track during a presentation or speech. Practice your presentation aloud, and if possible, in the space where you will be giving the presentation. Practicing aloud will allow you to refine your presentation for time and content as necessary, as well as help you to reduce those dread- ed vocal fillers. Practicing in the place you will be giving the presentation will allow you to become comfortable with using the space around you, as dis- cussed above.

“With all this information to remember, it’s hard to not let the nerves get the best of you.”

Sounds easy, right? With all this information to remember, it’s hard to not let the nerves get the best of you. Nicole taught us a few tricks to reframe our thinking about public speaking. She suggested breathing exercises and “planting an anchor” to slow our heart rate and get those nerves in check. Planting an anchor uses Pavlovian conditioning to associate calm memo-

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