I never thought I would be a public speaker.... nor did I want to.
I didn't have anything to speak about, but as I started to put myself out there on my social media and I started to build my online business that started to change. People started to care about what I had to say, about my story!
So when the opportunity came up for me to speak at one of our business events I immediately said yes without hesitation, before my fears around speaking started to rise to the surface.
Then it got real... It started to sink in that I was going to be speaking in front of 500 people, in a massive venue for my FIRST time and I had no clue how to go about that. It was definitely stressful and I was nervous but I knew that everything good is on the other side of fear so it was no question that I was doing it even if it made me EXTREMELY uncomfortable.
After I got off that stage, with shaking hand, I really had no idea if I had impacted people or not...
Then after, when so many people came up to me with hugs, tears and saying thank you to me I knew that speaking and sharing my message and my story was something I would continue to do.
Since then I have spoke a total of 5 times and every time I have gotten so much more comfortable and confident, although I am still nervous before every time I think that thats the same for anyone, whether you have spoke 1 time or hundreds!
I hope this podcast episode gives you some inspiration to start seeing yourself sharing your story with others. I give you some things you can do now to start preparing yourself for doing that in the future!
Enjoy!
Xx
Alicia
