Excited and a bit nervous
During my entrepreneurial decades I made well over 100 investor pitches and raised millions of dollars for a big handful of start-ups. I was always excited, but never nervous.
I have taught classes at Duke for 12 years, with over 2,000 students, helping them become the most creative and entrepreneurial versions of themselves they can be, and the success of that work has taken me to dozens of other schools and countless speaking gigs including a couple of TEDx’s and conference keynotes. In anticipation I was always excited, am always excited, but never nervous.
I was just invited to be a guest on ‘The State of Things’, on WUNC, on Thursday the 5th, to talk about The 53rd Parallel, and I am not only excited but much to my surprise I am also a bit nervous.
I think it must be that I love these stories, that they are so deeply a part of me. Early readers seem quite pleased with how well the stories are told in the book. I want to be true to that experience when I speak of the book.
And I am sure it’s also that I have never appeared in public as that thing I have most wanted to be: a novelist.
So tune in, the show starts at noon, June 5th, and send your good thoughts my way.
wunc.org/programs/state-things