Eric Edmeades went from terrified of public speaking to addressing 10,000 people in Cologne. He argues mastering storytelling on stage creates what he calls the "stage effect," a major income and career upgrade.
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I used to be absolutely terrified of speaking. If you called me on a Monday and said, eric, could you speak at my conference on Friday? I would absolutely say no. Today I literally have no nerves about walking on stage at all. I did an event earlier this year in Cologne, Germany. I walked into a stadium. The event was for 10,000 people. I wasn't nervous at all. I was super excited. And the funny thing is, if I were to go back and talk to me at like 25 years old and say, by the way, you're going to speak in front of, I just would have vomited. But I made a transition and I want you to know that that transition is one of the biggest life upgrades I've ever created for myself because of something called the stage effect. And stage effect is a almost magical attraction that gets created when somebody puts themselves on stage, shares valuable information with the audience. And I'll tell you something, the ability to educate, to inspire, the ability to affect the way people feel, no matter what career you're in, the single biggest income upgrade you could ever create for yourself is becoming really comfortable and confident at speaking. And if you can handle it, moving to the classification and being like a world class storyteller, it changes everything.