My name is Ryan and I live in Grayslake, Illinois. This year I am a senior in high school and I am taking an English class, which might as well be a speech class because we do speeches almost every other week.
When I first heard we were going to be doing speeches I was just dreadfully nervous right off the bat. I have hated giving speeches every since grade school and I really don't know why.
I mean I never really was teased or picked on by teachers or what not, I just have always had this innate fear of speaking, let alone speaking in front of big groups.
Every time I would get up to do a speech in this class my knees would start shaking, I would get all sweaty, I would start swaying back and forth and I would forget to do things like breathe. Sometimes, I would omit entire paragraphs from my speech.
But ever since doing this program its not only given me more confidence but it's allowed me to speak as if I was just speaking to a few friends, you know? Instead of trying to fire off all these words that I had memorized a few nights before. It's almost like I'm just having a conversation with the room and that's really helped me a lot.
The speech that I did right after doing this program, right away all the kids were, and even my teacher on my grading, said "hey, you seem a lot more confident and calm, whats your secret?" so that was pretty cool. This is a great program. I would recommend it to anyone, and good luck to anyone who does use it. Thanks.
