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Katie • Edited

I just delivered the last of my 3 back-to-back talks this Wednesday ... which were my first "serious" talks. Nothing more on deck -- phew!

I'm a year into conference/webinar speaking with no serious background in rhetoric, acting, or teaching (although, luckily, also without too much stage fright).

It was a lot of work. Like, part-time job levels of work.

But I gave 3 talks (1 conference and 2 "guest" webinars on YouTube series) that I'm proud of.

  • In 5 years, perhaps I'll look back on them and see how far I've come.
  • But I'm certain that I won't look back on them and cringe. They're solid enough to be in public for the rest of my career. I did it.

I hope to write a retrospective post with proper thank-yous to people who got me here.

Now off to a well-earned break of just doing my "real job!"

P.S. I presented about:

  • XML and JSON
  • An obscure new feature of Salesforce
  • Python as an alternative to Excel for editing spreadsheets