As a child, the considered talking in entrance or amongst massive teams of individuals made Anjay Anson nervous. However by a curious coincidence, the present biz newcomer ended up touchdown a internet hosting job within the morning present “Unang Hirit” final 12 months.

“I’m not used to it… When folks move me the mic, I move it to another person. It was my first time to strive internet hosting so I used to be apprehensive. I didn’t know what I used to be doing. I had no concept what I took on, or obtained myself into,” Anjay stated in an interview on the sidelines of “The Public Talking Huddle,” a workshop performed by tv host Boy Abunda on the Philippine Girls’s College (PWU).

However Anjay knew that if he had been to succeed and final in his chosen path, he must look past appearing, and increase his skillset to grow to be a well-rounded artist.

“Internet hosting is so completely different from appearing. You get completely different experiences from interacting with completely different folks. You don’t know the way they’d react or obtain you. And that makes it difficult,” the 20-year-old Sparkle GMA 7 expertise stated. “However I do know that I needed to get out of my consolation zone.”

Making an attempt new issues

The extra he did it, the extra assured he grew. “When you get the dangle of it, when you get going, you finally study to take pleasure in it,” stated Anjay, whose latest appearing stints embrace supporting roles within the collection “Sparkle U” and “The Write One,” and the sitcom “Open 24/7.”

“I’ve realized that it’s OK to strive new issues, with out expectations, as a result of that’s the place you uncover new issues in life… That’s the joys of it.”

Anjay not too long ago mustered the braveness to look at his reside internet hosting spots. “I couldn’t deliver myself to look at them earlier than as a result of the considered it makes me really feel shy. However once I lastly obtained round to watching myself, I noticed that there was plenty of useless air and miscommunication with my cohost,” he stated.

“It wasn’t excellent, but it surely was a place to begin. I knew what I needed to repair and enhance,” added Anjay, who put his research at De La Salle College on maintain to concentrate on present biz.

Anjay was one of many movie star contributors of the aforementioned workshop, the place Boy talked in regards to the significance of public talking and efficient communication—one thing he believes present biz personalities can vastly profit from, particularly within the age of social media.

“There’s plenty of noise on-line. Individuals have shorter consideration spans. Everyone has grow to be everyone to a sure extent. Anybody who engages on social media platforms is, in a method, a public individual. Subsequently, there are qualities anticipated from a public individual doing a public job,” Boy advised the Inquirer.

Increased schooling

Unbeknown to many, Boy is a communications educator and holds a doctoral diploma in Philosophy in Social Growth from PWU. And so, in his non-public conversations with celebrities, he tries to induce them to pursue greater schooling, given the possibility.

“I encourage folks to return to highschool, pursue greater schooling or simply proceed studying… I hope that extra celebrities grow to be to take, not simply programs on public talking, however the schooling path usually,” identified Boy, who sponsors the schooling of actors Kaori Oinuma and Aljon Mendoza.

“There’s this mindset that you just both study from the college of laborious knocks, otherwise you go to the academy. However the factor is, you are able to do each,” stated Boy, who’s very happy to impart his many years’ price of data to aspiring younger artists.

Anjay’s largest takeaway from the workshop, he stated, is that there’s nobody who can inform your story higher than your self. “Each individual has a novel story and it’s as much as you to deliver that story out. That’s what stood out to me… It was additionally reassuring to comprehend that nobody’s excellent. It’s regular to make errors; you settle for, study and transfer on,” he stated.

“This can be a new atmosphere for me. But it surely’s inspiring to see and be round passionate individuals who love what they’re doing and are all the time keen to study,” he added.