[This post contains video, click to play]Stage fright can be a very debilitating thing, which can affect a lot of people.
But surely performers don’t get it, right?
Wrong!
Even the biggest of professional performers have had to battle stage fright at times during their career.
Join me and my special guest magician and mindreader Paul Newton as we discuss the whole topic of stage fright, and look at some of the ways he managed to start to overcome it on his journey.
And if you are watching the video version, stick around for a mid-credits bonus scene!



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You’re listening to the Keith Blakemore-Noble radio show, helping you transform your deepest fears into your greatest strengths. Here’s your host, Keith Blakemore Noble…
Keith: [00:00:30] Hey welcome, welcome to another episode. Glad to have you here. Now, my guest this week, I have a magical guest this week. In every sense of the word, good friend of mine by the name of Paul Newton. I’ll just tell you a little bit about Paul. Paul is an amazing new breed of professional magicians, infuses groundbreaking temporary magic with traditional conjuring. He has a long history of providing business insights, using psychometrics and skills in business. Beyond that of purely an entertainer. And he is working with some really big names these days, we can’t mention at the moment. It will come out in due course, but definitely something to keep an eye on. That’s my guest today. Paul Newton. Hey, Paul, how are you doing?
Paul: [00:01:17] Hello, buddy. How are you? I’m good, thank you. How are you, sir?
Keith: [00:01:21] Very kind of. You are. I am fabulous, as always. Thank you. Fabulous, as always.
Paul: [00:01:25] Good man. Good man.
Keith: [00:01:27] So we’ve we’ve heard a brief description of who Paul is. For anybody listening or watching who hasn’t yet had the pleasure of encountering Paul. Who is Paul? What’s he do?
Paul: [00:01:39] Oh, don’t. Don’t. Basically, if anyone hasn’t seen my work already, run and hide and get out. I’m a magician, a mind reader. I mess with people’s heads for a living. So I literally make a living out of meeting lovely people, going to really nice parties and entertaining them. I help with TV shows, I do stage shows. I help big corporates with their people and some of the issues of… Well, magine if a mind reader came in strong. Steal your passwords. How are you going to stop them?
Paul: [00:02:16] Ok, yes. So that’s what I do. Yeah. I mess with people’s heads for a living.
Keith: [00:02:24] Great! And how do you do that – close-up, on stage, or how?
Paul: [00:02:29] All of the above. So I did this weekend just gone is a great example. On Thursday, I was in a car park just doing close up magic for a corporate. And so on the Saturday morning, I was at a polo club up in Richmond entertaining some very, very gorgeous and far too expensive cars. I had Saturday evening I was in a guild hall doing a stage show for a charity. And then Sunday I was in a garden party. So all of the above, anything from close up. And I swear I do the closest tricks you will ever find all the way out to helping with TV shows.
Keith: [00:03:11] Quite, quite the range. You say all of the above. Quite a range. Yeah, pretty impressive.
Keith: [00:03:17] So I’m I’m guessing. I’m guessing you don’t get you don’t get nervous when you’re when you’re doing these things. You don’t get you’ll get stage fright.
Paul: [00:03:26] You know what? Sometimes it creeps in. But now I understand it and I know why