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Hi and welcome back. I'm so glad you're here

So a lot to catch you up on in the last week

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 I completely lost it and for probably a month I've been working

really intently 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 they 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 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

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