The First of Many (Core Collective Seminar)

A few weeks ago, Core Collective hosted an amazing 2-day Seminar. Yes, I was both lucky enough to attend and be there as someone that was a speaker. Let me tell you, this being my first speaking engagement of note…I was nearly shitting bricks.
 
Now, many might say, well you give talks all the time when you’re coaching, the high school specifically. Yes, those are all young minds that are listening to someone that’s “an authority”, already at an advantage there. This was a bunch of people paying good money to hear people speak on topics they wanted to learn about. Naturally though, I stuck to my wheelhouse, coaching young athletes. While I don’t have a degree in child psychology or anything of the sort, I do have 10 years of working with the population. That alone has given me insights on what works well and what tends to fall flat on its face (having done some of the latter myself). Made it a lot easier to get into it for both putting together the presentation and feeling at ease once I started.
 

Core Collective supporting Core Collective (Doofus, Tay, Izz)

Still, I was nervous as hell. I did have tons of support from friends and the Core Collective fam (Gabby, Izz, Tay, thanks!). Much to my surprise there were questions, folks were taking pictures and some head nods. Maybe I was only saying things that felt like common sense, but still means I was making sense at least.
 
Seminars and conferences are always a great place to bump into like-minded people that you can learn a thing or two. I felt like I was fortunate enough to be the one giving out some of the content for once. Certainly am looking forward to the next one and refining things after this one (hint hint to anyone out there).
 
I firmly believe we should be willing to do that hard things and push our limits. It sure does help when you have supporting people around you. Thank you to those that gave me the confidence to go through with it to the best of my ability. Last, but not least, thanks to the other awesome speakers I had the pleasure of sharing the day with so many great ones I could list them all, but it'd be better if you just asked me about them.
 
That is all for today fam, hope you all have yourself a day and thanks for reading!