“You look so comfortable on stage with all those people watching you,” I once told him. “How do you do that?” “First,” he answered, “it helps to get to the repetitions. Every experience doing it helps you feel better for the next one. So, you have to get the reps. Next, I say a quiet prayer to myself that I will have the energy and enthusiasm that this crowd deserves. This speech is for them. It’s about them. I need to show up for them. And then I do something that is counter to what I normally think and feel. I say, ‘I’m the baddest dude in this room, and I’m about to put on a show.’”
