Speaking in Public with Clarity
Transform speaking anxiety into clear, compelling delivery. Learn how to steady your nervous system, structure unforgettable points on the fly, and hold any room from your first sentence to the final question.
Like Duolingo, but for Speaking in Public with Clarity. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
A short one: 12 levels across 2 sections, about 24 minutes end to end, roughly 5 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Commanding the Room Under Pressure and Structuring Ideas and Sticking the Landing. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in Speaking in Public with Clarity
- Adrenaline automatically pushes breathing high into the chest, making a speaker's voice tight, shaky, or strained
- Two slow, low belly breaths physically slow the heart rate and stabilize breath support before speaking
- A narrow or shifting stance allows nervous energy to turn into unconscious swaying, rocking, or wandering across the stage
- Setting feet flat and shoulder-width apart stabilizes the hips and roots a speaker in place
- Trying to address an entire sea of faces simultaneously overwhelms a speaker's focus
- Holding eye contact with a single person for a full sentence or thought creates an intimate, conversational exchange and calms the speaker
- Filler words like 'um' and 'like' are reflexively used to prevent silence when a speaker is thinking
- A silent pause projects composure and gives listeners necessary time to process the meaning of a spoken idea
- Stopping speech entirely feels longer to the speaker than it actually sounds to the room
- Projecting toward the furthest listener naturally encourages speaking from the chest, lowering pitch into a richer, warmer register
- Focusing projection on distance keeps a speaker from pushing volume through throat tension or shouting
- Audience attention is naturally highest during the first sixty seconds of a speech
- Housekeeping like sound checks, reading agenda slides, and administrative disclaimers drains early curiosity without delivering value
- A speaker should begin immediately with content rather than walking listeners through procedural details
- Provocative questions or vivid scenarios make listeners curious before they know the formal topic
- Leading with a generic topic announcement triggers passive listening rather than active curiosity
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Speaking in Public with Clarity the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
What is the best way to calm your racing heart and steady your voice right before you speak?
Get it right to open this lesson and 11 more in the app.
Where Speaking in Public with Clarity takes you
- 1
Commanding the Room Under Pressure
- Calming the Body and Projecting the Voice
- Hooking Your Audience in the First Sixty Seconds
- 2
Structuring Ideas and Sticking the Landing
- Structuring Thoughts for Maximum Recall
- Closing Decisively and Handling Tough Questions
2 sections · 4 units · 12 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
Tomo is in ChatGPT
Tomo is also a ChatGPT plugin: the same playable courses, built and played inside your chat.
Add Tomo to ChatGPT- What to ask
- “Make me a Tomo course on black holes.” “Turn this chat into a Tomo course.”
- What you get
- Quick questions with instant feedback, hearts and stars, ready to play in about a minute.
- Where it goes
- No sign-up to start. Connect your Tomo account and your streak carries on in the app.
You pick the voice
Speaking in Public with Clarity is taught in the Explain Like I'm 5 style: no big words. promise.. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.
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