People Magazineさんのインスタグラム写真 - (People MagazineInstagram)「Standing onstage in October at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., Oliver James wanted to pinch himself. Instead the 35-year-old motivational speaker, who was being honored by the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy, took a deep breath before he began reading from a teleprompter. “I was nervous,” Oliver tells PEOPLE in this week's issue. “But knowing that I was about to do something in front of all those people that I wasn’t very good at was an exciting type of nervousness that I’ll never forget.” Just a year ago, James would have been hard-pressed to read a restaurant menu, let alone a teleprompter. All that changed in October 2022, when he kicked off a post on his TikTok with a simple but brutally honest confession: “What’s up? I can’t read.” More on Oliver's in our bio link.