As a communications trainer, it's my ambition to help people overcome their fears of public speaking. For many of us, fear of public speaking is an everyday reality. But that's absolutely not necessary. The fear of public speaking is an irrational fear; a fear of something that is actually quite harmless. The bad news is that possibly eighty percent of the human race is afraid of something that they need not be afraid of. The good news is that an irrational fear can easily be overcome.