Social Anxiety or Speaking Fear? One Shift to Conquer Both! With Marla Genova

Welcome to the Personal Development Trailblazers Podcast! In today’s episode, we're going to be talking about how to break free from a limited life controlled by debilitating social anxiety and public speaking phobia.Marla Genova began having panic attacks while speaking at the podium at age 12. She lived a very limited life until her late 20s when she began facilitating support groups and sharing many different methods and resources. She has worked with thousands of people with social anxiety and/or public speaking fear for the past 19 years through individual and group sessions, workshops, including a 16-hour intensive weekend workshop for many years. Marla uses a cognitive-behavioral therapy approach that focuses strictly on anxiety, not presentation techniques or Toastmasters-like tips. She teaches you how to genuinely connect with your audience, calm your physical symptoms and empower your thought patterns, by shifting the critical, negative thoughts about yourself into much larger, positive perspectives. She has the unique combination of her own personal anxiety journal, a Masters in Psychology and a professional background as a researcher and author of scientific journal publications in mental health clinical trials at Yale University and at the University of Connecticut Health Center for 25 years. Marla became a certified master coach through the International Coaching Federation in 2017 and founded Socially Speaking LLC in 2018. She offers in-person in Connecticut services and remote services worldwide: complimentary support groups, individual and group sessions, workshops, finds customized resources for loved ones trying to help someone with this type of anxiety. She mostly works with ages 18 and up but has recently been working with teenagers and youth to overcome the fear of phone calls, and job and college interviews anxiety. Having suffered from intense social anxiety from ages 12-30, she strongly advocates for transitioning youth as early as possible, before it severely limits their personal and professional lives. Connect with Marla Here: https://lnk.bio/MarlaGenova_SociallySpeakingLLC/ - everything is linked here and up to datehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/marlagenova/https://www.meetup.com/connecticut-ct-social-anxiety-public-speaking-support-group/https://www.instagram.com/anxietycoachmarla/https://www.facebook.com/SociallySpeakingPlus/https://calendly.com/marlagenova/30-min-complimentary-call/https://sociallyspeakingplus.com/Grab the freebie here: https://sociallyspeakingplus.com/===================================If you enjoyed this episode, remember to hit the like button and subscribe. Then share this episode with your friends.Thanks for watching the Personal Development Trailblazers Podcast. This podcast is part of the Digital Trailblazer family of podcasts. To learn more about Digital Trailblazer and what we do to help entrepreneurs, go to DigitalTrailblazer.com.Are you a coach, consultant, expert, or online course creator? Then we’d love to invite you to our FREE Facebook Group where you can learn the best strategies to land more high-ticket clients and customers. QUICK LINKS: APPLY TO BE FEATURED: https://app.digitaltrailblazer.com/podcast-guest-applicationDIGITAL TRAILBLAZER: https://digitaltrailblazer.com/