Nina Zakharenko gives some great advice about giving tech talks.
We talk about a blog series that Nina wrote called "The Ultimate Guide To Memorable Tech Talks". This episode is full of great help and encouragement for your own public speaking adventures.

Some of what we discuss:


overcoming the fear of public speaking
breathing and pausing during talks
planning your talk as well as planning your time to get ready for the talk
writing proposals and getting feedback on proposals
Nina's talk in PyCascades on programming Adafruit chips
types of talks that are often rejected
pre-recording demos to avoid live demo problems
why you should speak, even if you are an introvert
benefits of public speaking
a super cool announcement at the end
Special Guest: Nina Zakharenko.Links:The Ultimate Guide To Memorable Tech Talks — Nina's series of posts with lots of advice on giving excellent tech talks.Azure for Python developers — Tutorials, API Reference | Microsoft DocsHow to Do a Deep, Diaphragmatic Belly BreathingExample accepted and rejected conference talk proposals — Nina's examplesAllison Kaptur's PyCon Proposal examplesEmily Morehouse's proposal examples.Brandon Rhodes' example PyCon talk proposalsNina's PyCascades talk on Python and LEDs — PyCascades – Light Up Your Life – With Python and LEDs, starts at 13:26.Nina has a keynote at PyCon 2019 — woohoo!

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