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Essentials Course

A beginner’s guide to speaking panic free in groups.

Understand how and why the speaking anxiety happens, learn techniques to control the stress chemicals in your body and the uncontrollable bodily symptoms like rapid heart rate, voice quivering and many more symptoms. Take your career to the next level.

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Self-paced

Learn at your convenience.

40 mins

Easy video lessons.

Help

Free consult with Dr. Mathews.

Lifetime

Lifetime access to course.

What you’ll learn

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Is this course for you?

– Overview of the course
⁃ Assess your anxiety level in different situations


⁃ The causes of public speaking fear
⁃ Your nervous system’s automatic fear response
⁃ How Sensitization works
⁃ How Anticipatory Anxiety Works
⁃ How your nervous system’s automatic relaxation response works
⁃ Stages of fear: First fear and second fear
⁃ How to manage first fear and second fear
⁃ How a phobia develops

⁃ The Law of Habituation and how it works
⁃ How your specific self-talk contributes to fear and how to change it
– Common myths
⁃ Common pitfalls to avoid

⁃ How to practice successfully: There is a right way to desensitize and a wrong way.
⁃ Tips

⁃ Schedule a free 30-minute consultation with Dr. Mathews to discuss next steps tailored to your situation
⁃ Ways to start practicing the right way

Here’s the kind of stuff you’ll learn

Your nervous system played a trick on you.
I’ll show you how to retrain your automatic fear response.

Is this course for me?

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Pricing

For $35, you’ll get lifetime access to the course and a 30-minute consult with Dr. Mathews.

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FAQs


Yes. Once you purchase the course, you’ll receive an email with a link to start the course.

The course is made up of approximately 30 videos that typically last 1-2 minutes each (total duration ~40 minutes). With the interactive exercises, the course will take a few hours to complete.


No, you don’t have to take the course in one sitting. You can pause, stop and start the course at any time. You can exit the course and come back to it later.

Modern computers have everything you need. You’ll need a computer or tablet with a browser and an internet connection. You may want to use headphones to listen to the videos.

We do not offer refunds because, once you buy the course, you have access to all of the content and proprietary materials. 


I recommend the Essentials Course and the Desensitization Laboratory (LAB). You need three things to improve: Information, personalized coaching tailored to your situation and supportive group practice where you can experiment with new anxiety management techniques. The Essentials course lays the groundwork with critical information and it works with the LAB to provide the personalized coaching and safe practice necessary to overcome high speaking anxiety and/or panic attacks.

Overcoming high speaking anxiety takes time because the fear center in your brain is programmed to believe that speaking is dangerous. It takes time for the fear center to trust that certain speaking situations are safe. 
Most participants in the SpeakCalm program see a 50% reduction in their fear after completing the Desensitization Laboratory (LAB). Then there is continual progress at 3, 6, 9 and 12 months. It’s like going to the gym to improve your physical fitness – it requires practicing the right way over time to make progress.