Billie Wilde

Performance and presentation contributor

Billie Wilde contributes Allow Your Dream! to Dream Big And Act Fast. Her author note describes working with people on stage-related challenges, including presentations and performances, with an interest in helping them understand and take ownership of the process.

The chapter combines personal reflection with subjects such as breathing, posture, physical tension and preparation. Billie considers the effect of other people's expectations on a person's willingness to express an ambition or step in front of an audience.

One narrative follows a performer called Jodie before Billie reveals that the experience was her own. That structure is important to understanding the chapter: it brings her reflections on fear and confidence back to a personal performance history.

Billie's contribution is concerned with learning to approach a stage task more deliberately. Her perspective connects the practical details of preparation with the confidence that can develop through experience, support and a clearer understanding of what a person wants to communicate.