I bet that your next speech is going to be great! You’ve got an exciting  topic, your audience wants to hear what you have to say, and you’ve  created a speech that virtually crackles with great content. 

However, you can still blow this speech  and take away from the importance of public speaking. If instead of  delivering a tasty speech with great content to your audience you  instead provide them with a speech that is stuffed with filler words like “and”, “um”, “ah”, and even “so” then you will have failed in your attempt to win their hearts and minds. 

What’s are speakers to do?