You've done the work. The deck is tight, the numbers hold up, and you know this material better than anyone in the room. Now you just need your body to cooperate for the next twenty minutes.
Here's what nobody tells you about presenting: the preparation was never the hard part. You can rehearse an opening forty times and still feel it slip the moment you stand up — because what changes when you stand up isn't your knowledge. It's your physiology.
Your autonomic nervous system runs one program for high-stakes situations, and it was written long before boardrooms. Adrenaline releases. Heart rate climbs. Blood flow shifts toward your extremities on the assumption you're about to move fast — which means slightly less of it reaching the prefrontal cortex holding everything you rehearsed.
That's why breathing exercises only take you so far, and why the coffee in the lobby was a mistake. This is a physical event, and it responds to physical inputs. Which is good news — it means it's something you can actually prepare for.
This is the scenario the formula was built around. One 100ml shot, roughly thirty minutes before you're up: