Love Your Audience: How to Conquer the Fear of Public Speaking

The fear of public speaking is most people's biggest fear. It can strike terror into the hearts of people of all ages, races, genders, sexual orientations, nationalities, faiths, occupations, and income levels. It can prevent you from achieving success and limit your effectiveness in all areas of life. During the course of over 25 years of public speaking experiences, Bob Abernethy learned how to overcome his own severe Fear of Public Speaking, becoming an excellent, in-demand, and powerful speaker, addressing hundreds of audiences around the world. Moving from IT to software sales and then into management, Bob is now President of Yosemite Analytics, which delivers industry-leading cloud-based Business Intelligence & Analytics. Bob's passion is to share with you the invaluable lessons he learned about how to conquer the fear of public speaking. Adopting the role of your own personal Public Speaking Coach, Bob is uniquely qualified to help you become the confident and fearless Public Speaker you really can be. Love Your Audience is specifically written to give you all the insight, understanding, tools, tips, techniques, motivation, and confidence you will need in order to become an excellent and fearless Public Speaker. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT LOVE YOUR AUDIENCE: “Bob Abernethy tackles the topic of public speaking with true empathy and enthusiasm. His learnings and advice are valuable for any reader who aspires to take the stage with confidence and leave the stage with success.” Bill McDermott CEO SAP “Every skilled trial attorney will tell you that the secret to success is reaching the hearts and minds of their particular audience - the jury. With Love Your Audience, Bob Abernethy demonstrates through personal insight and experience how best to develop and hone the skills of effective communication, and every word rings true because Mr. Abernethy has taken every step of that journey himself. This is not a self-help book. It's the intimate retelling of the metamorphosis of a brilliant, but frightened, would-be speaker into a passionate, compelling storyteller who now reaches the hearts and minds of everyone in the room, no matter how big or small.” Hon. William J. Condon N.Y. State Supreme Court “Bob Abernethy’s Love Your Audience takes us on a journey toward forming the right frame of mind with a tour de force on a philosophy of life drawn from his own considerable public speaking experience. If you are not in a hurry to find a cookbook solution to your fear of public speaking, this is a book you will enjoy. From Abernethy’s experience, love of your audience leads to courage, the counter force to fear. He writes this book for us from the basis of his own life experience, with great passion and a strong sense of service to his fellow public speaker.” John E. Miller Lieutenant General U.S. Army (Retired) Read more