Do you lose sleep before presentations, interviews, client dinners, or holiday parties, only to find the event wasn't nearly as bad as you feared? In this episode, we discuss why pre-event social anxiety spikes before important moments, and share five practical tips to help you walk in feeling prepared. Links and Resources Take the Social Friction Quiz: StatureExecutivePresence.com/Quiz Book a Social Strategy Session Website: StatureExecutivePresence.com Connect with Susan: Email: Hello@StatureExecutivePresence.com LinkedIn: Instagram: TikTok Register for the free live training, Shatter Your Social Limits: Schedule a chat with Susan: statureexecutivepresence.com/coach Email: Hello@StatureExecutivePresence.com About Susan Callender Susan Callender is an executive presence coach and speaker, and facilitator, and the founder of Stature Executive Presence, a coaching and corporate training firm serving professionals worldwide. She's the host of the Social Skills Mastery Podcast, the #1 social confidence podcast for professionals, where she teaches socially reserved, high-performing professionals how to communicate with confidence, build influential relationships, and show up with the presence their expertise deserves. For 17 years, Susan has partnered with Fortune 100 companies and has coached professionals at organizations including PwC, JPMorgan Chase, Moderna, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Ernst & Young, Deloitte, Sun Life, and New York Life. She's the creator of the Social Identity Shift Framework™, a six-phase method that helps clients change how they see themselves socially so that confidence, connection, and executive presence follow naturally. Susan is a TEDx speaker whose talk, "The New Etiquette," explores how social skill transforms careers, and she has served as a commentator on global protocol for CNN's Airport Network. She's a trusted media resource on business etiquette, social confidence, and professional presence, and she works with individual clients and corporate teams fully online across time zones. Keywords and Topics pre-event anxiety, social anxiety before events, anticipatory anxiety, social anxiety at work, presentation anxiety, interview anxiety, holiday party anxiety, networking anxiety, fear vs anxiety, illusion of transparency, mental rehearsal, visualization for confidence, negative self-talk, believable thoughts, overthinking, can't sleep before a big event, how to calm nerves before a presentation, how to prepare for a networking event, small talk tips, social confidence, executive presence, confidence coaching, socially anxious professionals, introverted professionals, Social Identity Shift Framework, Susan Callender, Stature Executive Presence, Social Skills Mastery Podcast, Boston executive presence coach, social confidence coach
