You're listening to the Creating a Brand podcast success story segment.

I am your host, Alex San Felipe.

In this short segment of the show, I bring on friends of the podcast to share a motivational,

inspiring, and sometimes even challenging story from their entrepreneurial journey,

along with a

practical takeaway for us to implement. The point is for each of us to be able to learn and

grow from the experiences of others. With that said, please enjoy today's success story episode.

Hi, my name is Jamie Silva. I am a public speaking coach and you can learn more about me on my website, Silva Speechcoaching.com.

What I want to talk to you about today is an experience that I had in college and a lesson,

valuable lesson that I learned from that.

So in college, I was a member of the sports radio broadcast team. Our station broadcast,

baseball, basketball, and football games. Now, I only did baseball and basketball. I didn't know

football. I just had never followed it growing up. But one day, I got a call from the head of the

sports department. He said, Jamie, someone's dropped out of the upcoming game against Salt Lake.

We'd like you to fill in as an answer.

And I said, well, I'd be happy to, but just FYI, I don't know football.

I've never followed it.

I don't know how the game is played.

Nothing like that.

And the head of the sports department said, you know, I'm sure you'll figure it out.

Games in three weeks. So, I had to just learn the game of football in about three weeks, during midterm season, I might

add.

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