Insights
I froze on stage. Ten years apart.
The fear doesn't go away. It never does.
Leo Judkins, Founder, The iGaming Leader
Ten years ago I froze on stage for eight minutes.
Not a pause. Not a stumble. Eight minutes of standing there, mind completely blank, in front of 100 colleagues.
My boss had to come up and put his arm around me. Handed me a bottle of water.
It was the most humiliating moment of my professional career.
A few years ago I ran a session for EGR Power 50. I had prepared for weeks. Room full. And I froze again.
Nerves got to me. Didn't say half of what I wanted to say.
But every hand in the room went up when I asked who'd walked away with an insight.
The EGR team told me afterwards they'd been looking for this level of interactivity between their guests for seven years.
So I froze. And it still worked.
The fear doesn't go away. It never does.
But ten years ago I couldn't get through the first two minutes.
That day, I got through the whole thing.
That's progress.
Two days later I went again, for EGR Power Affiliates. Said half of what I wanted to say the first time.
Showing up again is the only answer I've got.