What do you do when you're sitting in the audience, you're up next, the stage is enormous, and every cell in your body is screaming "absolutely not"? In this first episode of Electric Voices, I take you inside the moment I nearly walked away from the biggest stage of my life and what happened when I got up and did it anyway.
I've spent 12 years working with entrepreneurs, healers, therapists and creative thinkers, and I've watched the same thing happen every single time someone's ready to rise: the fear rises too. In this episode, I share how I coached myself through that fear in real time, why putting yourself out there opens you up to judgment and to the right people finding you, and what one well-crafted talk actually did for my business.
You'll hear about the "lightning bolt opener" that made the whole room erupt, the slip of paper that told me my calendar was broken (it wasn't, it was full), and the clients who signed on because of how I showed up on stage. More than that, you'll hear why your voice, your real, imperfect, still-on-the-journey voice is the key to building a business that genuinely fulfils you.
Plus: why audiences want your setbacks far more than your highlight reel, and a first look at what's coming in future episodes.
What's inside:
- Why showing up opens you to judgment and to the right clients, opportunities and open doors
- How to coach yourself through fear in the moment, instead of fighting it
- The "lightning bolt opener" and what one well-crafted talk can do for your business
- Why people connect with your journey, not your mountaintop
- A first look at "speaker magic," structuring a talk, and loving up on your fear
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Timestamps:
00:00 The 2015 video and the stranger who called me "weird"
00:57 We love to judge, but we hate to be judged
02:07 Showing up changes everything and the biggest stage yet
