For those of you that follow regularly, you will know I did a talk for International Woman’s Day on March 8 about Being Bold for Change, which was the theme.
I have been asked many times how I thought it went.
It’s a complicated feeling.
Being a woman and speaking in front of women has a huge feeling of responsibility to it.
I had so much muck of my own to sort through including all of the self doubt that always keeps me small.
As I worked through my stories and what I was going to say, sometimes I wondered if everyone knew all of the mistakes I’ve made and people I’ve hurt if they would even listen.
At times I felt like I haven’t shown up often enough in life or accomplished big enough things to be the guy on stage.
I am really just an ordinary girl living a fairly ordinary life.
It didn’t matter which side of the doubts I was feeling, the common theme playing in my mind was that I wasn’t enough.
But the show had to go on.
The beauty of having a deadline…and good friends and family, kept me pushing through until I came up with something to say.
Then I showed up and gave my talk.
The ladies were so kind to me, everyone listened intently and nobody got up and walked out. They even giggled at a couple of my jokes, and a few came up to me after and said they were inspired by my story.
We have a low quality video of it, and the ending was cut off… but if you would like to watch it, here is the link.