Can someone recommend me a personal coach for public speaking?
Hello, first of all, it's important to know I'm in my 40's and I'm terrified of public speaking. I've basically spent my entire life avoiding it. It's caused me to make decisions on things like my career choice and my interests in order to continue in a pattern of avoidance.
Well it seems I just can't do that anymore. You see, I started a small business just under two years ago and in order to keep maintaining growth and capitalize on my success thus far I feel I can no longer continue avoiding it. I have this task that I want to do which will certainly require that I perform some public speaking and things like elevator pitches.
I'm so scared in fact I'm half in tears and near enough ready to cry. But here I am and I just really need some advice. I'm willing to pay a coach for classes. If you have experience with this or know somebody can you PM me? Or if you think I'd be better looking elsewhere other than Reddit can you point me in the right direction?
Thank you in advance.