{"id":839,"date":"2026-03-20T09:02:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T09:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carynkatz.co.za\/?p=839"},"modified":"2026-03-20T09:02:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T09:02:03","slug":"10-things-to-remember-for-confident-public-speaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carynkatz.co.za\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/10-things-to-remember-for-confident-public-speaking\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Things to Remember for Confident Public Speaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\" style=\"--awb-text-transform:none;\"><p><strong>1. Arrive. Don\u2019t rush in.<\/strong><br \/>Take a moment to land in the space.<br \/>Feel your feet on the floor.<br \/>Let your attention drop out of your head and into your body.<br \/>Presence begins before you speak.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Inhibit the habit to panic<\/strong><br \/>When we speak in public, the old pattern is to tighten, rush, and try too hard.<br \/>Pause.<br \/>Do less.<br \/>Give yourself a moment before you begin.<br \/>Confidence often comes from what you stop doing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Come back to the breath<\/strong><br \/>Breathe in\u2026 and sigh out.<br \/>Let the jaw soften, the neck free, the ribs move.<br \/>Close your lips and breathe through your nose.<br \/>Express warmth through your eyes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Get clear on your intention<\/strong><br \/>What is your wish for this moment?<br \/>You are not here to prove yourself.<br \/>You are here to communicate, to share, to connect.<br \/>When the intention is clear, the body organizes itself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. Take the focus off yourself<\/strong><br \/>Self-consciousness comes from turning inward.<br \/>Connection comes from looking outward.<br \/>Let your attention go to the people, the space, the room.<br \/>Speaking is a relationship, not a performance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6. Let the space support you<\/strong><br \/>You do not have to hold yourself up alone.<br \/>Allow the floor to carry you.<br \/>Allow the room to receive your voice.<br \/>\u201cBreathing in the space, Breathing presence out\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>7. Organise the body, not just the words<\/strong><br \/>Plan where you will stand.<br \/>Know when you will move and when you will be still.<br \/>Give yourself physical places to land.<br \/>Good use of the body creates ease in the voice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8. Practice in the real voice<\/strong><br \/>Say the words out loud.<br \/>Meet your own eyes in the mirror.<br \/>Let the voice travel where the eyes go.<br \/>The body learns confidence through experience, not thinking.<\/p>\n<p><strong>9. Take more time than you think you need<\/strong><br \/>Adrenaline speeds everything up.<br \/>Allow pauses.<br \/>Allow silence.<br \/>The audience reads time as confidence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10. Your state affects the whole room<\/strong><br \/>People do not only hear your words \u2014 they feel your condition.<br \/>If you are tight, they feel it.<br \/>If you are present, they settle.<br \/>If you are available, they listen.<br \/>True confidence is not perfection.<br \/>It is ease, direction, and willingness to be seen.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carynkatz.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carynkatz.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carynkatz.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carynkatz.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carynkatz.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.carynkatz.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":841,"href":"https:\/\/www.carynkatz.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions\/841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carynkatz.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carynkatz.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carynkatz.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carynkatz.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}