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Aaron Irizarry · 2 months ago

Very Cool!
Hopefully this preso is on the slate for AEA when it hits San Diego next year so I can catch it live!

davevogler · 2 months ago

That was a great article (and a great presentation). Thanks for sharing your perspective! Congratulations.

dannychapman · 2 months ago

Thanks so much for sharing so candidly. I was there, and I can tell you that the people around me in my row really got it and bought what you were saying (myself included). Congratulations on a job very very well done.

Eric Meyer · 2 months ago

Whitney, it was a FANTASTIC talk. I'm sorry we somehow didn't see each other after you came offstage so I could say so in person, but it was. Thank you so much for bringing it to the AEA stage.

franklakatos · 2 months ago

Great talk, great points, great case studies, great profanities.

xian · 2 months ago

Your learning curve is scary fast! Good for you for taking adversity and making use of it to rapidly improve your performance. You are inspiring a lot of people (myself among them).

Aaron Gustafson · 2 months ago

This is great Whitney. If it weren't for the damn client phonecall, I could have watched your whole session, but I loved the intro and from all accounts I've heard, you did a great job.

Even though I've done quite a few AEAs over the years, each time is different, each audience is different, and, in my case, each presentation is different. I love the feedback from the audience and, likewise, look to see how I can tweak and re-focus my presentation style and my presentations themselves to better resonate with the audience. Each one is different, as I said, so it's like trying to hit a moving target, but it's nice to feel the presentation getting tighter each time.

Anyway, great post and I look forward to actually seeing a full Whitney Hess talk at AEA in the future.

Daniel Szuc · 2 months ago

Great post and when you allow the content to guide you rather than rule you, it flows and feels great :)

Jeremy White · 2 months ago

Any nervousness did NOT show. Wow, it was really great. I've already given a short version of your presentation to my coworkers and it was well received. It's great to be able say, "Look, we can do this!" and have some real examples to back me up.

Rachel · 1 month ago

Thanks for sharing this and congrats on overcoming your fear!

""What’s the worst that could happen? I’d bomb? Well I already did that and the world didn’t end, so I didn’t have much to lose.""

These are words to live by I swear! I have to remind myself constantly not to be afraid of failure. It's one of the best ways to learn. Great post.