I did something I thought I would never do. I talked on Ori’s radio show, Couch Surfing Radio (fair warning: when you click on that link, the show starts playing immediately). I mean, I knew it was coming eventually, he’s had *one* broadcast since I met him where he didn’t either talk about me, or put me on air ‘accidentally’.
I just didn’t think I would make it through the broadcast without losing my ability to remain coherent. But, really, it was just like talking to Ori on the phone. We’d talk, he’d get distracted, we’d talk some more. My phone dropped the call twice, you know the usual.
I have to call him out on this:
First I saw the description of the show:
I’ve not broadcast in 3 weeks, as I’ve been on a big roadtrip, then was over inundated with work. This week I’m going to talk about a lot of that. I have learned A LOT from it! Everything about health, productivity, relationships, car insurance, guitar, Kathryn’s adventures, friends, recharging my brain, and even my hair!
Then I get a text at 9:58:
Doin show 2nite, wanna talk about ur road trip & upcoming plans?
I agreed as long as he would ask questions to keep me from getting flustered and two minutes later called in because the show was starting.
Since it fell squarely into the ‘not gonna kill me’ category I knew I had to do it. Plus, as much as Ori likes to push my comfort zone, I know I can trust him. We talked about a bunch of topics, but one I didn’t expect was announcing that we are going to submit a panel idea/pitch to the SxSW PanelPicker for 2011. It’s on location independence and I’ll post more once I’ve gotten it square in my head and probably on paper even.
So, since I’ve said it out loud, had it recorded, and now, written it down, I kinda have to do it. Because really, the first time you decide to look at speaking in front of an audience, it should be at a conference whose attendees number in the tens of thousands and include almost the *entire* start-up community.
Breathe in, 2, 3, 4, Breathe out, 2, 3, 4…
Tags: anxiety, comfort zone, couch surfing ori, Outside of my Comfort Zone, risk, sxsw, unnerving
