I can hear a lot of room tone in your recording. This isn't surprising; in a room that small you won't be able to get far enough away from the walls, so unless you treat them, that's primarily what you are going to hear. Most importantly, you should note that nothing you can do in post production will alter this - that sound has effectively become a part of your voice, and the only way to get rid of it is to record in a space where the walls don't feed back into the mic.
One thing you can do that will make a significant improvement is to use one of these:
Reflexion filter
There are cheaper ones available but they don't work as well. I can tell you from personal experience that the sE Electronics one works exceptionally well - all you have to do is make sure that the space immediately behind you is has a blanket or some other sort of diffusion - a bookcase full of books works quite well - and use it facing into the room. This will keep the reflections from the room getting into the sides of the mic, and that's what is producing so much room tone. If you don't address this, then you'll never get a 'professional' sound at all.
Until you get this right, it won't be possible to say what else, if anything, is needed to process the results from your recordings - the room tone affects everything. One thing I would say though is that in general, don't use the graphic EQ - it is in its nature to introduce phase shifts where you don't really want them. A much better bet is to use the Parametric EQ, which has far less artifacts and produces a generally 'cleaner' sound. But if you get the basic sound in the room right, then you'll need to do far less to the sound anyway.
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