The idea of public speaking makes a lot of people very nervous. What will I say? How will I say it? Will people laugh at the right times? Will they just start looking at their phones?

The Valley’s Phonetic Spit wants to get to kids early to make them comfortable with publicly expressing some of their most personal feelings, even as it seems the world is against them.

We talked to Tomas Stanton, co-founder of Phonetic Spit.