Talkative: * Make a question * Hear the answer * Repeat the answer with your own words * Relate yourself with the answer: me too and... / not me, but I experienced something similar... * Repeat

Try acting or locution classes. Actors do silly exercises to take away the scenic fear. If you have been a dog or a tree in front of several people, then being human seem a lot easier.

I've always thought that if a company claims rights over what you do outside worktime, they should do it not only for your genial ideas, but for the bad ones too. So, if you incur in a stupid debt it must belong to the company. Your newborn baby? The company mus pay alimony. It's all or nothing!

It wasn't too expensive to change in the rest of the world, though.