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know I gave my first TED Talk which is crazy and I freaked out I you know I've

been speaking so much the past few months I didn't anticipate getting

nervous because I don't get nervous when I speak, but I will tell you, I completely lost it.

And for probably a month I've been working really intensely and intensely on the talk, but it came down to that day and I just, I freaked out.

Totally unexpected, not cool, not happy about it.

But I mean it just, the day started off, great,

and then I was a first speaker, so they said,

hey Heather, why don't you jump up on the red dot and

go through like the first five minutes of your talk and we'll you know do a mic check and I said yeah great

You know I was so excited because that would be helpful you know so excited because that would be helpful you know that you're getting up

there before you're really getting up there so I was in my sweats and I just jumped

up there and the first couple of minutes were great and I was killing it and then I completely went blank and couldn't remember what I was supposed to say.

That's never happened in my life that I was speechless. But I was and I just

froze standing there and they were like oh whatever you just you know Heather

just forgot what she's gonna say whatever and there was this

woman that works with speakers that was there and she's like oh you know I have a

friend that did the same thing he was a kicker in the NFL and it was the most

important game of his life and he just blew it and I was so taken aback by that comment that I had to get out of there.

I just said you know what here's what I need I need to leave and I need to be around people that

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