5 • 826 Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2022
⏱️ 94 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello, humans. Nothing is quite right today. I spent the weekend screaming and crying and shouting. I have no voice. And the paradoxical thing about that is I lost my voice finding it, if that makes sense. And if it doesn't, that's okay. I'm here in front of this camera right now because I said I wanted to learn how to |
0:22.7 | give a talk and how to talk to people and share messages that are important to me without a guest, |
0:29.4 | without somebody to fall back on. And so although nothing's perfect, although we could tinker |
0:34.6 | with the lights, we could tinker with the video, we could tinker with |
0:37.9 | the makeup making me less red or my hair, we could get a haircut, we're just going to do it. |
0:42.7 | We're going to do it broken voice, broken hair, imperfect. |
0:47.7 | I'm never ready. |
0:48.9 | There's always some amazing excuse why I'm not doing it, so we're just going to do it anyway. |
0:53.4 | I feel silly, but I think I would feel even sillier if I didn't do it. |
0:58.0 | I told my friends and my loved ones and my support group and my patrons |
1:03.0 | that I wanted to learn how to deliver a talk, that I wanted to learn how to communicate |
1:09.0 | alone without a guest on a stage. |
1:11.8 | And so here we are. |
1:13.2 | We're on a stage. |
1:14.7 | I am alone. |
1:16.0 | I have written something to say and I'm going to say it. |
1:19.0 | Thank you for being witnessed through this moment of me learning this skill. |
1:23.6 | This is talk number two called magic. |
1:31.9 | Magic is a bit of a nerve-wracking topic for me. |
1:32.7 | I love it. |
1:37.5 | It's something that plays a role in my life, but I'm ashamed of it on some level. |
1:40.5 | I think I would much rather be talking about something in the material world, |
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