[Untamed]

Congrats Ted. SPeaking in front of a crowd is never easy, and only becomes tolerable once you've done it a few hundred times. Those people who seem so relaxed up front only hide the anxiety that went into all the prep the hours and days before they stood up in front of the crowd. I make presentations to groups of people regularly. The key I have found is not imaging folks in their underwear, but by being confident that you actually know what you're talking about. Know the material backwards and forwards then... tell other people about it. That's all really.

Its easy for people, behind a keyboard, to encourage you to keep subjecting yourself to such things. But the best thing you really can do is speak publicly over and over until you've done it enough that you don't feel nervous in front of folks....

... that way when you're the CFO of a company that's hidden money, bilked investors, and underreported earnings for tax purposes, you can confidently tell the congressional hearing that you knew nothing about it... without breaking a sweat.