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The Disempowering Story of a Public Speaker
Sally Kohn: I identified with your public speaking story, it here's mine in a lot of ways. My brain said, speaking is dangerous. You could be publicly humiliated. You should never do that. And so professionally, I just kept saying no to more and more opportunities. So then about five years ago, my team came to me and they said, you know, it's just the funniest thing. We realized you have never keynoted for us. She says she had been telling her stories for at least 20 years but didn't feel comfortable doing them anymore. "I'm ready to do battle with it. If it kills me because it kind of felt outdated,"