Episode 16 - Building Your Confidence Through Public Speaking with Christina Pooran

HIGHLIGHTS

01:59 Growing up in Guyana and moving to New York

07:22 A fascination with the moon and her emotional arrival in New York

12:17 Working and studying full-time and joining Toastmasters as an extracurricular activity

17:17 Being welcomed into Toastmasters and doing her first Table Topics

23:14 Toastmasters is a platform for sharing and learning

26:41 Losing her confidence and walking out of the room and the audience

33:19 Facing her fear of speaking in front of an audience and overcoming it

39:52 Joining a bilingual Toastmasters club

42:16 Keeping an open and mind listening to each speaker and their stories

44:17 Growing with Toastmasters and working on areas for improvement

QUOTES

10:01 "There's the other side of the world in Guyana where people who have seen you for all this time can't bear to let you go. So here I was sort of stuck in that limbo. Should I be happy that I'm here, or should I be sad that I'm here?"

15:43 "To be honest, I wasn't looking to go do speeches. I just really wanted somewhere to be, somewhere to go, so I can feel that I was a part of college outside of the academics."

23:46 "It's such a good platform. the way you can share and you can learn from people. So people go there and yes, they are improving their public speaking skills, but they're also sharing something that people in the audience would have never known."

31:51 "From that day on, I never went back to speak in front of an audience because there was this always lingering fear that okay, this happened, and this will probably happen again."

34:34 "Are you waiting for some miracle to happen for you to say, oh yeah, let me do this. I mean, I guess I realized that if I don't make that effort to work at it, I'll always be a prisoner to this fear."

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