How to Present Yourself After Redundancy - Speaking Without Freaking with Dave James

<p>Most people navigating redundancy have spent years being good at their jobs. The doing was never really the problem. The bit that catches people out is the presenting — interview panels, networking rooms, video calls with recruiters — where suddenly you have to articulate your value out loud, to strangers, in real time, without your brain quietly filing everything under unavailable.</p><p><br></p><p>That gap between knowing your stuff and being able to say it, under pressure, while someone looks at you. That&#39;s what this episode is about.</p><p><br></p><p>Dave James is a twice TEDx speaker and speaker coach who spent years in healthcare before moving into coaching. What he took from nursing, A&amp;E and podiatry was a single transferable skill: building rapport fast with people who are frightened and don&#39;t know what&#39;s coming next. His framework is called Speaking Without Freaking, and his approach has little in common with the presentation training you sat through once and immediately forgot.</p><p><br></p><p>We talk about why confidence is the wrong thing to go looking for, why memorising interview answers reliably backfires, and why your redundancy story (the bit you&#39;re most tempted to skip past) is often the most powerful thing you&#39;ve got. </p><p><br></p><p>There&#39;s also a Bon Jovi misheard lyric, which I stand by to this day!</p><p></p><p>Connect with Dave:<br><a href="http://www.davethecoach.co.uk">www.davethecoach.co.uk</a><br><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/iamdavejames/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/iamdavejames/</a><br>Book a conversation: <a href="https://cuppawithdave.youcanbook.me/">https://cuppawithdave.youcanbook.me/</a></p><p><br></p><p>Find the show: <a href="https://www.thenowwhat.co.uk">https://www.thenowwhat.co.uk</a><br>The Invisible Queue community: <a href="https://www.theinvisiblequeue.co.uk">https://www.theinvisiblequeue.co.uk</a></p><p></p>