Speak up with ease

“Erin is an inspiration! I initially met Erin briefly when I was a guest at a Toastmasters club, she made an impression from only one meeting, so when I saw that she was putting on a public speaking course in Brooklyn, I jumped at the chance! The course exceeded my expectations.

Erin has a wonderful way of inspiring confidence and making you realise that you can do it, and you can do it well. If you get the opportunity to attend a public speaking course run by Erin, do it!”

“I’ve just started a job and last week there was a department meeting. Turns out there were hundreds of people there. And the Head of Department started off saying “ohh we’d like to introduce the newcomers”. My anxiety kicked, and I felt like running out the door right away.

BUT I heard this voice in my head saying “you GET to speak.. breathe”. The Head asked if anybody wanted to start and I jumped off my chair raising my hand. I was shaking, my voice was shaking when I started speaking but I told them your advice, “Somebody taught me last week, not everybody gets to speak…” After that I kicked into Toastmaster mode! Did a bit of a sales pitch of my group and my team and threw in some jokes that everybody loved.

I later found out that people in my group rarely speak up or attend these sessions, some of them didn’t get up, my manager and two layers above were really impressed, the Head of Department came over to hug me and my manager’s manager was proud; apparently I was trying to get the voice out of our unit.

Anyways, thanks for your words. I had so much fun in my short public speaking experience and achievement last week.”

“Erin is my go-to person when I’m preparing a presentation. It’s easy for presenters to suffer from ‘the curse of knowledge’. Erin adds value by listening, checking, and asking astute questions from an audience point of view. Well worth the time.”