Fear. We all know the feeling from a terrifying experience at some point in our lives. However, 75% of the people get fearful when having to speak in front of a group of people. Even the idea of doing it is sometimes enough for many people to get fearful.
Yes, most of us — even those at the top — struggle with public-speaking anxiety. When people think about what makes them nervous, they usually come up with the same answers:
Some might say the fear will go away as you do more and more talks. This is not always true: our guest today, Thierry de Pauw, has done many talks: about Continuous Delivery, Agile transformations, Trunk based development and so on. However, Thierry has publicly shared about his struggle to start public talks.
Thierry is a Senior IT Engineer at the fintech startup PaxFamilia.
On the side, he founded ThinkingLabs, an advisory firm in the adoption of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
He is an occasional speaker at international conferences about everything Continuous Delivery.
Thierry's website: https://thinkinglabs.io/
Thierry on twitter: @tdpauw
Thierry on linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tdpauw/
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