What is the essence of RealTime Speaking?
The French novelist Emile Zola said, “If you ask me what I came to this world to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.” RealTime Speaking is a force that comes from within you, and it is all about your living out loud — authentically, with confidence, credibility, and connection. Q: Why is it so hard to do that? A: At some point in our life, we have all had our exuberant, free, creative powers of self-expression criticized, restricted, judged, or condemned. It is a common experience to have compromised what we wanted to say in the face of a strong, authoritative challenge. From these threatening experiences, we created survival-based decisions to repress our true feelings and voice, our authentic self-expression. RealTime Speaking is a means to recover our original freedom, joy, and fearlessness of authentic self-expression. This comes first, because without this return to wholeness, we will never become truly great speakers. Then, we learn to be effective, how to create a cons