{"id":688947,"date":"2024-02-22T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T10:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/?p=688947"},"modified":"2024-02-22T10:00:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T10:00:02","slug":"author-and-guest-speaker-matthew-cossolotto-shares-surprising-secrets-for-turning-stage-fright-into-stage-delight-with-groundbreaking-book-the-joy-of-public-speaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/author-and-guest-speaker-matthew-cossolotto-shares-surprising-secrets-for-turning-stage-fright-into-stage-delight-with-groundbreaking-book-the-joy-of-public-speaking_688947.html","title":{"rendered":"Author and Guest Speaker Matthew Cossolotto Shares Surprising Secrets for Turning Stage Fright into Stage Delight with Groundbreaking Book, The Joy of Public Speaking"},"content":{"rendered":"
Whether you’re an experienced, novice, or terrified speaker, Matthew Cossolotto\u2019s The Joy of Public Speaking: Find Your Voice and Reach Your Peak Potential highlights powerful mindset shifts, profound insights, and practical tips to give your career, leadership skills, and self-confidence a big boost.<\/div>\n

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Matthew Cossolotto (aka “The Podium Pro”) is an author, guest speaker, and creator of Personal Empowerment Programs (PEPTalks) designed to help people reach their peak potential, on and off the podium.<\/p>\n

Matthew’s leadership communications career spans the corridors of power and influence on both sides of the Atlantic—from NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, to the Speaker’s Office in the U.S. House of Representatives. A former aide to Congressman Leon Panetta, Cossolotto has coached and penned speeches for senior executives in a wide range of organizations, including UCLA, PepsiCo, MasterCard, IBM, and other Fortune 100 corporations.<\/p>\n

Matthew is the author of several books, most recently The Joy of Public Speaking<\/em>. As a guest speaker and workshop leader, he has shared his personal empowerment ideas with a wide range of domestic and international audiences, including corporations, associations, government agencies, conferences, schools, community groups, and nonprofits\/NGOs.<\/p>\n

This one-on-one interview shares Matthew Cossolotto’s background and experience in writing The Joy of Public Speaking: Find Your Voice and Reach Your Peak Potential<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Tell us about The Joy of Public Speaking.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let’s start with the big picture. The ability to speak confidently and comfortably to audiences of all types is a widely recognized leadership and success skill. Yet, opinion surveys confirm that most people rank public speaking as one of their top fears, along with spiders, snakes, and death itself.<\/p>\n

The Joy of Public Speaking<\/em> embraces a simple proposition: People who learn to enjoy public speaking tend to be better at it than those hobbled by anxiety, trepidation, or outright terror. In the book—and in my speech coaching and speaking programs—I help readers and clients recognize self-defeating attitudes, feelings, and habits, and replace them with empowering mindsets to fast-track their success, on the podium and beyond.<\/p>\n

The encouraging fact is most of us actually enjoy talking with others—friends, relatives, colleagues, and even complete strangers. This brings me to a key insight in the book and in my various programs: there’s no such thing as public speaking—there’s just speaking. That realization is where the “joy” of speaking comes from. It’s an important step on the seven-step path to the joy of public speaking that I unveil in my book. I urge readers and clients to employ what I call “the gentle art of mental joyjitsu”<\/em> to make powerful mindset shifts that will propel them on a life-changing journey to joy.<\/p>\n

Readers of The Joy of Public Speaking<\/em> will learn about powerful concepts, including:<\/p>\n