Janet Hilts

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Public Speaking Expert

Janet Hilts Quick Facts

Main Areas: Public Speaking, Self Confidence
Career Focus: Business Owner

Janet Hilts is CEO of Speak Up And Shine, dedicated to helping professionals get their message out with stress-free speaking in all areas of business. Janet helps coaches, consultants and other entrepreneurs who struggle with confident speaking – whether it’s in person, on stage, online or on videotape.

She is committed to making business speaking easy and painless for professionals so they can be completely comfortable talking in any setting. With performance coaching and rapid change tools, Janet quickly helps clients get to the root cause of their speaking discomfort so it never comes back.

Janet is a long-time veteran of speaking, with a BA in Speech and Communications. Both as performance coach and former health educator, she has taught classes, led workshops, coached groups and been featured on stage at national conferences and on several radio shows. Her clients include professions as diverse as life coach, physician, network marketer, website creator, building contractor, voice coach, and yoga teacher. Janet brings extensive coach training to her specialized short-term coaching to achieve long-term effects for motivated business professionals.

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Speak With Confidence Through Visualization

Visualization is a great tool to help you boost your confidence in business speaking. And I'm using the term "visualize" very loosely. Some of us are more kinesthetic or auditory than we are visual. That doesn't matter. You can use this tool anyway. More on that in just a minute... First, I want to tell you why this visualizing is so important. Especially if you're uncomfortable speaking up, it's easy to focus on your fears. What you think will go wrong. What went wrong last time. All that stuff. However, focusing on imagining success can be much more useful.

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Public Speaking Fears: Your Reason To Stay Small?

If you have a fear of speaking up, you’re not alone. Studies show that 85% of people are more afraid of speaking in public than they are of death. Wow! That’s a huge fear. So you’re a fairly typical person if the thought of speaking makes you anxious. However, the consequences for you if you’re not speaking up are NOT typical. You’re a business owner. So you need to be heard. It’s critical that you get the word out calmly and clearly about what you do.

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Business Speaking Essential: Dust Off Your Enthusiasm!

Do you cringe when you hear an infomercial guy yelling with rollercoaster inflections in his voice? I know I do. He’s trying so hard to sound enthusiastic, but he just sounds annoying. All that hype-y up and down in his voice comes across as totally phony, doesn’t it? Enthusiasm Isn't Cool That 3 AM salesman is contributing to the bad rap given to showing enthusiasm. Plus, it’s not really cool to sound excited about anything.

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Public Speaking: Do You Overload Your Listeners?

Speaking with passion is a plus - whether talking with a prospective client, or doing a presentation. Letting your passion shine through to people is important, absolutely. Maybe even critical. Enthusiasm ignites from that passion, and makes you sparkle. People love that! Enthusiasm is contagious, so they fire up some good feelings of their own. Now you've got some ideal basic ingredients for a productive business communication. Here's The Tricky Part You need to let the enthusiasm flow, but restrain your information.

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Business Speaking: Why You Resist Getting Better And What To Do About It

Resistance usually comes from fear in some form (anxiety, worry, caution, or outright panic). But sometimes fear is a false alarm. It's just our "reptilian brain" telling us to watch out. That's how we're wired - and have been since cave people days. Consider the possibility that YOUR fearful feeling may be just a physical response to change. So it's not about logic. It's not about strength of character. It's just your brain doing a perfectly normal thing. Here's How It Works The oldest part of your brain is always working to protect you.

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Elevator Speech: Does Yours Take You To The Top?

You know the drill. You're supposed to follow your mentor's formula for writing your "elevator speech" or 30-second intro. And then deliver it with enthusiasm to everyone who will stop long enough to listen. Right? OK. You're following instructions. You've rewritten the thing at least 17 times. You've rehearsed it until you're blue in the face. Then why do people's eyes still glaze over? Try Something Different It's possible that what you really need is a new approach - not a new speech.

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