How To Be Confident Under Pressure (Even if You're Shy)

Pressure is a confidence killer.

If you can keep calm when the pressure's on, you have the opportunity to land a job, start a relationship, or connect with new people.

But when you need your confidence the most, it may seem to evaporate.

You stumble over your words, your mind goes blank, and you can feel those opportunities slipping away.

Now, you might think that there's no way to fix this, especially if you're a naturally shy person.

And then my early 20s, I kind of got shyer and shyer and shyer.

Peak shy is when I had Obsession happen.

Indy Navarrete must have been feeling the pressure when she was invited to appear on Jimmy Kimmel Live to promote her movie Obsession.

No one was expecting this movie to blow up.

Now, she'd done some smaller interviews with other members of the cast, but going on Kimmel was something entirely different.

Hundreds of people in the studio audience, millions watching at home.

She had to do it alone.

When the stakes could not have been higher, how did she respond?