#37 Change the Story You are Telling About Yourself

Find Your Voice, Change Your Life · Nov 30, 2021 · 32m

Today, I interview Brian Wagstaff whose first experience with speaking anxiety came as during his childhood. When asked to make a phone call for his mother, the call ended in embarrassment. From this point forward, Brian hesitated to speak up in social situations for fear of experiencing another embarrassing situation.

As a teenager, he had a wardrobe mishap and ended up feeling quite humiliated about it, which didn't help. And again during those years, he experienced an unnerving band class error (not even his own!) which gave him stage fright in the most literal sense.

Eventually after…