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		<title>Make Yourself Comfortable</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 14:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not too long ago, my six-year-old son invited a friend from school over for a play date. A few minutes before the boy was due to arrive, my husband and I got a call from the boy’s mother saying he had a question for us. When she put him on the phone, he began asking about a number of safety-related issues: “Do you have any smoke alarms in your house? How many? Has your house ever been on fire?”

We were a little confused why he was asking. Turns out, the little boy was pretty anxious about going to new places, generally, and about fire safety, specifically. Apparently, he would go through this routine before he visited a new place so he could feel comfortable enough to go. 

I sort of think he was onto something. ]]></description>
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		<title>Overcoming Stage Fright</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Emily Lewis Sweaty palms. A keen urge to pee despite plenty of visits to the restroom. Mixed martial artists sparring in my stomach. A shaky voice that sounds like I could cry at any moment. A flight instinct that wants to overpower fight. This is me before giving a presentation; I get stage fright. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Misfits Make Great Speakers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:16:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rachel Lovinger The number of women at tech conferences is growing, but we still represent a fraction of the attendees, not to mention the speakers. You may look around at a conference and say, “There aren’t a lot of people like me here.” But that’s not inherently a bad thing. Hear me out. Sometimes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Self-Fulfilling Prophecy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<blockquote>Do or do not. There is no try.
 - Yoda</blockquote>

When I was five years old, my parents took my sister, Ana, and me to Hong Kong as part of a business trip. On the last day, my mother took us into a toy store and, feeling generous, told us to pick out anything we wished. Ana chose a red toy piano.

<em>I chose a toy computer.</em>]]></description>
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		<title>You have to ask to get a &#8220;Yes.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Estelle Weyl The first step to speaking at a conference is to ask to speak at the conference. To some people this is self-evident. For me, it came as a surprise: when attending my first technical conference, I assumed the organizers had asked all of the speakers to be there. It made sense to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asking For Help</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 14:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Laura Kalbag The first web talk I ever gave took place in a little basement at a BarCamp in front of six or seven people. We chose the rooms we spoke in, so after waiting for all the other rooms to be taken, I volunteered myself for the smallest room. After all, I thought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>United We Speak</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 14:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Yesenia Perez-Cruz Public speaking is rarely regarded as a team sport. Baring your soul in front of a crowd is vulnerable and personal. It’s like climbing a mountain of doubt, insecurity, nerves, and criticism—alone. Triumph usually means, “I did it.” “I conquered my self-doubt.” “I survived.” While public speaking is a deeply personal activity, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Website: Seize the Room</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Emily Lewis When I started giving presentations back in 2008, it didn’t occur to me that the act of public speaking is a skill in and of itself. That’s probably because my focus at the time was really just getting the nerve to speak in front of people well enough to do my topic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speak and Be Seen</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Whitney Hess Image credit: Jessica Hagy My mom loves to tell a story about when she and my dad came to see me in a play at day camp. I was six. I had the very important job of carrying title cards from stage-left to stage-right, which depicted time passing between scenes. It wasn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stepping Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I started co-organizing the DC Lean Startup Circle, I made a commitment to involve more women in the group -- because I usually was only one of a few ladies in a room of a hundred dudes.

Now we routinely see 20 to 30 ladies at each of our monthly meet-ups -- which is awesome. 

But getting women to speak is like pulling teeth -- and this was a huge eye-opener to me. Because never has a man rejected a speaking invitation I’ve sent; and many hunt me down for a chance to speak, too.]]></description>
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