BECOMING A CONFIDENT SPEAKER
How do you become a more powerful, confident speaker? Katherin Nukk-Freeman, who was introduced in Chapter 4, loves speaking today, but it wasn’t always that way. Born in Chicago, Nukk-Freeman describes herself as a shy kid. Her father was a chemical engineer, and because her family moved all over the country, she loved to read and write but didn’t speak up much in class. As she relates: “Teachers would tell my parents that ‘we know she has the answer, but she doesn’t raise her hand.’”
One day Nukk-Freeman got up and decided that shyness would no longer define her. She ran for student government and made herself practice her speeches. She won the election. Every year after that, she challenged herself to do more and ...
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