How To Overcome Nerves in a Media Interview

What do you do when you know all the answers, but nerves render you helpless on live TV!  Don’t despair, it can happen to anyone.

Before the Interview

• Leave 30 minutes space before a TV interview to review materials and forget everything else that’s going on.
• Take some deep breaths. This works!  Take a deep breath in for 5, hold for 4, out for 7. Do this a few times to relax.

During the Interview

• Try to carefully listen to the question before starting to formulate your answer.
• Take a breath. Its ok for some space between a question being asked and answered.
• Ask the journalist to repeat the question (it also gives you thinking time).
• Repeat the question in the answer which will help prompt you.