251. Catching up with a friend and practicing my storytelling

Stepping up to the microphone has always been a dance with nerves for me, but it's in the candid relay of my journey from private voice memos to commanding the stage that I truly find my voice. In a heartfelt share, I take you through my evolution as a speaker, the initial comfort of audio recordings, and the eventual leap into the vulnerability of public speaking before an audience whose eyes and expectations weigh heavily. 

This episode isn't just about overcoming personal barriers; it's a deeper reflection on the shift from employee to entrepreneur and the weighty mantle of mentorship that follows. I underscore the urgency for consumer education in a business landscape teeming with both opportunity and exploitation, especially during times of economic turbulence like tech layoffs. Join me as I stress the resilience required to navigate the ever-shifting tides of professional life and the need to arm oneself with knowledge—ready to pivot with a plan B or C when plan A falls apart.

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:33

hey, how you doing, how you doing. We're back for another one. I do these in the mornings, but tonight it's 8 pm, um, and I'm practicing being able to own everything. Historically, I've been recording these. All met I.

Speaker 1: 0:49

I enjoy speech giving, I enjoy crowd, I enjoy being on stage in the center of attention, having the microphone to speak life into people. But beyond 10 people I start to freeze up Like I don't know who to look at, what to focus on and my words start to blur together. And that's why some people start their speaking career or like their consulting, their coaching, whatever they do that in different starting spots. And I grew up listening to radio. I grew up listening and just closing my eyes and hearing the scene, hearing the room, the engagement, dialogue, the interaction, the life, the downs, everything. And so that's why I was comfortable starting with these voice memos. I would feel weird talking to my laptop camera, not knowing what I was going to say, whereas here, like, my eyes can wander left or right, I can be tapping my feet, I can be clicking a pen and my voice tells the story more than anything else and my body and my eyes can move freely. And when I talk with someone one-on-one and there's that eye contact and telling the story and the good and the bad. For me, that limits one of my abilities to be distracted. Uh, when you have like those kids in school that are just fidgety and bouncy, you give them like a sandbag or like some magnets or like a little pendiclick, something to keep their jitters active, so that they can still pay attention, and I, deep down, I'm still that little jittery kid. I'm someone that needs engagement, interaction, two-way engagement, and for some reason, having one-on-one with this is going to be interesting. So, at the end of the day, I this is not about the studio, this is not about my day job, but growing into the next level, nate Nate.

Speaker 1: 2:34

First gear was employees. Second gear is business owner. Third gear is being a mentor to people, helping folks not get screwed. How to be a smart consumer, how to be one level smarter when there's a world out there that is ready to take your lunch and charge you at interest. That's not everyone, that's not most people even, but there are a handful of folks out there ready to do it, and it's usually the folks that have a lot more resources in their back pocket. I'm not saying rich people, I'm saying folks that are middle wealth or sometimes mega wealth, but middle wealth a lot of times know how to, how to swipe and how to do things and how to tip the odds in their favor, against the common person.

Speaker 1: 3:19

I'm not going to go down that road for the rest of this episode, but all I'm saying is I need the world to be smarter, because there's a big wave of entrepreneurship and business ownership going on and a lot of folks that don't want the weight and the responsibility of leading and managing people having careers and futures in their hands, households that are depending on them, on the job, on the company, to survive and to do. Well. Right now there's tech layoffs and folks should feel guilty over hiring and laying off people that now don't know how they're going to put food on the table. Folks that have taken a risk in their career and tried to work their way up, and now they get knocked over. All that to say, bringing it back to home base here, telling the story, sharing the passion, the desire for people to be smarter and ready to take the leap. That's not supposed to take your lunch, but take the leap and have the ability and the confidence to step forward boldly. And if plan A doesn't work out, how to figure out a plan B and if that is a dead end, find a plan C, something, something, something so that you can live to fight another day. And when I'm telling all this to a friend, I don't know how to do that. In a small group environment. I'm used to doing it talking to my windshield, talking to my dog, while I'm walking down the road and I just start figuring out how to scale my message, to broaden my voice, reach out and to consult with people that need this information, that need this wisdom.

Speaker 1: 4:52

This episode is probably a throwaway episode. More than anything, I'll still publish it because this is part of the journey of me changing and developing to who I am, 3.0. But, all this to say, I'm going to practice delivering my spiel. The last time I met this guy, the deal was locked down and I was like a one week into ownership and I was teed up for studio number two and I didn't realize things were going to fly into the tank pretty quickly. Financially, the studio and the staff are incredible. Financially, though, things are pretty quickly. Financially, the studio and the staff are incredible. Financially, though, things are pretty rough.

Speaker 1: 5:26

And so, to share the reality without throwing people under the bus, because that's not the point. That's not at all what we're doing here. The point is to talk about overcoming adversity, facing challenges when things look like they're going to go in your favor and you have to pivot fast. How do you do it? How do you survive the emotional rollercoaster, the mental bandwagon, the loneliness of fewer people out there that are doing this? How do you keep the momentum going? How do you build the momentum in your favor? And so just sharing with them, like, hey, your birthday, dude, happy birthday, and I'm going to celebrate you, I'm going to celebrate the friendship we have. And if the talk of this comes up, here's how it's going. Candidly, here is where we're at. I don't have the podcast or whatever for him to go to, but even just over the past, like couple, who I am has changed as a person, who he is has changed as a person, and this ride is one that we're all supposed to be on. That's where we're at, that's where we're going. Let's rock and roll.