One of the things I know is that the hormones or chemicals that race through your body at the time of fear are the EXACT same composition as those for excitement. If you can change the thought for fear to excited when you want to vomit it somehow subdues things a bit.

The other in regards to get over yourself..if you stay in tune with what you are there to do in service of your audience rather than indulge in yourself there is an energy flow that goes through you to the audience and back. It is a tangible energy. You can see it int their eyes and you as a speaker will be lost in time it will flow so smoothly.

Would have like to see your ignite presentation. Sounds rigorous. Great that you have a clear goal to conquer the fear and excel at presenting.

Here is my theory as to why: When I was in grade five I ran for class president. Candidates needed to prepare a short presentation. I went completely overboard. I created buttons, charts and graphs. I even wrote and recorded a campaign song! Of course the tape recorder jammed on me, and it went downhill from there. I knew I was in trouble when the teacher left the class room. I found out later that he was laughing his ass off and didn’t want me to see it. My fellow students just laughed in my face. I got zero votes, and my reputation as a complete nerd was confirmed for yet another year.

All of my worst fears about public speaking came true that day. So I learned that next time could never be worse, and to try to keep presentations simple, in context and rehearse, rehearse, rehearse!

I never ran for class president again, but my book reports crushed it!