When baseball players are called up to the Major League from the Minor League it’s referred to as getting “Called Up”. Today I am proud (and very humbled) to announce that I have been Called Up to PASS Summit 2018. I will be presenting my Data Types Do Matter session.
I started speaking on a regular basis only last year which I guess makes me a Rookie*. I never thought I would grow to love speaking as much as I have in the last fourteen months. I used to have a major phobia of public speaking (you can read about it here). But, with any fear if you confront it head on, in most cases, that fear becomes more manageable or even vanishes completely. A few years ago I decided that I would confront my fear head on (you can read about that here) and look where I am today. It’s not completely gone, but I have learned to manage it in a way I never thought I would.
I have presented 23 times on four different topics and reached 502 people in two countries. If someone had told me two years ago that I would have these kinds of stats I would have thought they had taken a Bad Hop* to the head.
This is only my second time submitting a session to PASS Summit, so I feel very honored to have been selected. I know others have submitted for years and still not been selected. Maybe wiping my submission with Pine Tar* actually helped this time.
Here’s hoping I don’t Whiff* and get Sent Down*.
