Conquer Public Speaking Fear: My College Journey #shorts

Name: Conquer Public Speaking Fear: My College Journey #shorts
Uploaded: 2026-01-20T20:02:36+00:00
Duration: 1 min
Channel: Jake Burhans
Description: In this YouTube short, Jake Burhans recounts his intense fear of public speaking that began in his freshman year of college. He describes a first…

20 Jan 2026 · 1 min

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In this YouTube short, Jake Burhans recounts his intense fear of public speaking that began in his freshman year of college. He describes a first presentation where his legs shook, he felt like he might black out, and no one commented on his visible anxiety. Determined to improve, he joined an investment club despite his dread, forcing himself to present regularly. He explains that he initially didn’t understand his anxiety, treating it as a lingering emotion, but discovered that after about 60 seconds into a talk his fear vanished and he entered a flow state. The video highlights his personal journey from crippling anxiety to realizing that anxiety is an energy he can release, emphasizing the power of repeated exposure and mindset shift.

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It's like me, I was deathly afraid of public speaking for the longest time. When I was like freshman in college, I remember I was deathly afraid. Like I had to do a presentation freshman year. And when I got up, I started presenting, my legs were literally shaking in my suit as I was doing the presentation. I was like, no one ever said anything about it after the presentation, but I was like, they, I'm surprised. Cause like my legs were really shaking. Like I blacked out as I was speaking. That would have been terrible if I actually like passed out. That would have been, I would have never lived that down. It was fear, right? So that was an example. But then I got into this other, here's an example about public speaking. I got into this other like investment club in college and just again, deathly afraid of public speaking, but I kind of did it because I knew that I needed to work on my public speaking. But each presentation I had for this investment club, again, soup, I didn't know how to deal with my emotions. I didn't know how to deal with my thoughts. Like when that anxiety came in, I didn't know that it was just an emotion, energy that I could let go, right? So I'm holding onto it. I'm like caught up in it for weeks on end for this presentation. 60 seconds into the presentation, completely fine. Right? Completely relaxed. I'm in a flow state. I'm loving it. I'm doing the presentation. Boom! All the fear goes away, right?