It is empowering to identify your own universal message that you want to deliver.   It will energize your presentations with passion for what you are saying.  A contributing factor to stage fright is the fact that people leave out their most deeply held beliefs and values from their presentations.  They tend to edit out the […]

The thrust of my entire life has been about working through insecurity to develop self-confidence.  The main thing I have learned is that authenticity fosters confidence.  As an actor, I trembled at auditions.  As long as I fought my tremors and made myself wrong for feeling afraid, I tensed to protect myself from showing my […]

Right after the final night of American Idol, I posted this comment.  It did not seem to show up on my blog, so I am reposting it.  I was so taken with the quality of talent this year, but when a real professional singer performed the last night, the difference was palpable.  Forgive me if […]

John Tesh just posted a blog called Taming Fear on which he shared that one of his biggest fears was stage fright.  He was wonderfully honest about his fear and shared his experience of getting help from a therapist named Dr Hart. What pleased me so much was that Dr. Hart’s approach to healing stage […]

 When it comes to speaking, presenting or performing, each of us must decide how we are going to present ourselves to the world.  We might each ask ourselves, “Will I create an image I think my audience will approve or will I risk presenting myself as I authentically am?”  This question determines whether we will […]

Darren’s comment on a recent blog post opened the door for me to delve more deeply into my awareness of what causes stage fright and fear of public speaking.  In response, I’d like to focus on what triggers stage fright and what heals it, what releases us from the grip of negativity and unleashes our potential to […]

Mick Jagger allowed Martin Scorscese to shine a camera upclose, almost down his throat during a concert in order to share what a Rolling Stones concert is really like. This is a part of the upcoming Rolling Stones Movie, “Shine a Light.” Interviewing Mick, Matt Lauer of The Today Show on NBC asked, “You must feel […]

I chanced upon a fantastic website unconditionalconfidence.com.  Nancy Tierney is the author of this site.  She has made similar discoveries about stage fright and fear of public speaking as I have. Her blog is full of great ideas and insights! For instance she says “The fear of speaking in public could be cured with a […]

I have been teaching my Zimmer Method for unleashing natural speaking potential for 20 years.  Over the years, people have said I should be more bold in speaking about my method. It has taken a long time to soak into my consciousness.  I guess I am a slow learner, but I always felt that people would […]

    I’d like to tell you a story. It’s a story that helps people see what is different about the Zimmer Method for presentation, public speaking and performance. It’s a story about my client, Tyrone and his success.      
Tyrone Moncriffe is a criminal defense attorney who was one of the first lawyers I trained.  When Tyrone […]