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Speaking Under Pressure Is Where Real Leadership Presence Gets Built (Part 2) | Ep 437

August 31, 2026•2 min read

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The best speech you'll ever give is always the next one.

This is part two of a two-part conversation, if you haven't caught part one, episode 436 covers seven more skills that speaking forces you to build. This time it's about what happens when the room doesn't cooperate: the projector that isn't there, the two pillars blocking half the audience, the sixty minutes of content that suddenly has to fit into forty.

Here's what you'll learn:

Keeping your composure when a room goes sideways, like losing half your speaking time without warning, is a skill you can train, and why the audience should never feel the chaos you're managing behind the scenes.
Walking into a room with no projector, no slides, or furniture set up all wrong forces you to think on your feet, which means the skill you build on stage shows up anywhere plans fall apart.
Having a handful of flexible stories ready to reshape for any room, before you ever open your mouth, means you can always hand an audience the lesson they actually came for.
Presence doesn't switch off the moment you step off stage, the moment you realize the version of you people meet backstage has to match the one they just watched speak.
Broken links, flubbed slides, and jokes that fall flat will happen, so next time one does, you'll already know how to shake it off and keep going.

The best speech you'll ever give is always the next one.

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Laurie-Ann Murabito

Speaking is the FASTEST way to build your business. As a public speaking coach, who works with leaders to help them write and deliver converting presentation to use as their best form of marketing and become the go to person in their industry. As a sought after professional speaker with over 25 years of speaking on leadership, personal development, and becoming a recognized authority. 2x Amazon best sellers and workbooks on the topics of leadership and emotional intelligence.

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