Hi, I'm Nuski

Before communication or public speaking became something I loved, I was just a kid happy in his own world, playing, imagining, mostly keeping to myself.

That changed when a teacher named Mr. Nihal introduced me to this idea, that the first eleven seconds decide whether someone's going to listen to your speech or not.

So I kept testing Mr. Nihal's theory, always looking for the sharpest way to open a speech, a crazy quote, raising my voice, sometimes doing something completely insane just to grab the room. And it worked wonders, pretty much every time.

That's what really pulled me in, because if eleven seconds could do that, I wanted to know what else was possible, how you properly build the rest of a speech, how you hold a room, how you gesture and move, how you ask the right questions, how you make it memorable for people.

Communication has now become my ultimate tool of progress, and I want to share it with everyone.

The Moment I Knew I Could Help

Back in university, during a group assignment for my business degree, one of my teammates (let's call him Kyle), was terrified of presenting. We'd done the writing, the research, the analysis, all of it solid, but when it came to standing up and presenting our findings, he told me straight up, he didn't know how to start, he didn't know how to end, and the second he pictured the room staring at him, his mind just went blank.

So we sat down together, and I asked him, "What part of our assignment do you have the most interest in?" He said the section on employee engagement. That's when I had an idea.

I told him, "Crush a piece of paper. Then, right at the start of your presentation, throw it, let it sail past the lecturer, past the whole room, and land wherever it lands."

Kyle looked at me like I was crazy.

"But that's exactly the point," I said. "Nobody's going to be watching you anymore, they're watching the paper. All that pressure you're feeling, it just transfers, and suddenly the room is curious instead of judging."

He did it. And the room lit up, people sat forward, wondering what on earth just happened. He rode that energy straight into his main point of the presentation: A good employee cleans up after themselves for the sake of the company, even when nobody's asking them to.

Kyle had an instant shift in confidence and a new appreciation for effective speaking.

And honestly, that's part of why I love what I do now.

Everyone's afraid of something different up there, for Kyle it was the weight of all those eyes on him. Finding that one thing, whatever it is for someone, and showing them it's a lot easier to get past than they think, that's the part I enjoy most.