Speak with Confidence: free course

Voice, diction, pauses and stories: you speak out loud into the mic right in the lesson. Fear and your recorded voice · Breath and voice · Diction, pace and fillers · Getting people to listen · Stories and evergreen topics · The talk

1. Fear and your recorded voice

Why speaking feels scary, why the room notices less than you think, and how to listen to your recorded voice without pain.

• Why speaking feels scary
• Your voice on a recording

2. Breath and voice

Belly breathing, the long exhale, volume without shouting, resonance, range and calm a minute before you go on.

• Breath: what your voice rides on
• Voice: volume and range
• Nerves as fuel

3. Diction, pace and fillers

A warm-up for lips and tongue, tongue twisters at three speeds, pauses, word stress, melody, filler words and vocabulary.

• Diction: understood the first time
• Pace, pauses and melody
• Filler words and a living vocabulary

4. Getting people to listen

A hook in the first 30 seconds, the curiosity gap, one main idea, the rule of three, the PREP formula, a strong ending, eye contact and gestures.

• The first 30 seconds: how to hook them
• Structure: an idea people remember
• Eyes, hands, posture

5. Stories and evergreen topics

Why stories stick, what they’re made of, storytelling drills and what to talk about so people want to talk with you.

• Stories: why they stick
• Story workshop
• Evergreen topics: being good company

6. The talk

Preparation from the audience to rehearsals, slides, the day of the talk, questions from the floor and your final talk, compared with your first recording.

• Preparation: from plan to questions
• The final talk

Is the course free?

Yes. All lessons are free, and the first one opens without signing up. A free account only saves your progress.