What to Do When You Blank Out During a Speech

Two-hundred pairs of eyeballs were on me.  I had just delivered a dramatic, beautifully wordsmithed phrase in my contest speech.  Then my mind went blank.  I looked at the audience with the “deer-in-the-headlights” stare for what seemed like an eternity as my mind frantically groped for the next phrase. Has that ever happened to you?  […]