So how do you speak in front of a really big crowd? So if you've never spoken to more than 20 people before 50 people all of a sudden seemed like a really big crowd. If you're used to speaking in front of 500 people that may be for you, the threshold is 5000 people. But for most of us, there's some threshold of an audience size where we think, wow, this is different. And this is scary. Well, let me share with you the secrets you really need to know for starters, it's not that you need to really do things that differently speaking to a large audience, from what you do when you're speaking to five or 10 people.

The problem is your body is going to get nervous and tense up. So what happens is people change themselves when they get in front of a larger audience and they change themselves for the worse they get scared. So instead of walking around gesturing next Really, they freeze up. Instead of being conversational, giving examples telling stories, they feel like they need to play it safe because they might forget and they start reading a script or reading bullet points, which is the kiss of death. So, so much of being a great speaker, in front of a large audience is really doing exactly the same thing you do. When you're speaking to a small, comfortable audience, and simply not changing yourself.

Part of it is just getting more comfortable by doing it more often part of it by rehearsing in the same venue. If you've never spoken on a large elevated platform or stage, get to the place the day before or at least several hours earlier when no one's there, and practice on that stage. And of course, you need to practice on video so you have an image of yourself coming across exactly the way you want. There are a few minor technical differences when you're speaking to a really large groups need longer pauses. It takes time for your sounds to filter around a large auditorium. walk a little more, create a little more variety if you're on a large stage that can help.

And if you just make everything a little bit bigger, more energy, slightly bigger hand motions, everything sort of bigger, but don't make the mistake of yelling. Because the problem a lot of people have is they see an audience member who's now 300 yards away. So they feel like they have to speak like this projecting and that's awful. That can wear out your audience that seems like you're shouting, you're going to have a microphone or you better have a microphone. If you're speaking to a large audience. So you want conversational tone in your voice.

That's one of the telltale signs when you see people speaking at major national political conventions, they're not regular speakers talking to thousand people. So they tend to shout by fellow American and it just makes them seem phony and staged and contrived. So you want that full, normal conversational tone of your voice do that. And you'll be great. Here's the other thing about speaking to large audiences because it scares people so much. If you do it and you do it competently, people are gonna think you're a genius.

They're gonna be like, Oh my gosh, I could never do that. And really all you're doing is the same thing. As when you talk to 20 people. So if you have the opportunity, take it