Dotty Scott describes how she moved past fear of public speaking by starting small and working up to a quarterly panel event. She still finds it uncomfortable, but bringing friends for support helped her keep going.
And it took me a long time. I will say a very long time to get over the fear of just standing up in front of a small group of people. If I can do it, you can do it. And if you're already there, fabulous. Start scheduling appointments to speak in groups. I then graduated to like their, I think they called it a quarterly event, something like that, where all of the groups would come together in one location and they would have a speaker. And I was on a panel. And I couldn't even tell you what the panel was about. I was just like, I, I invited my friends to this just to give me support for sitting on a panel of about 6 people. So I wasn't even speaking myself and I got through it. I got through it. Everything that came up, I got through it. It still is not my favorite thing in the world to do.
