A personal reflection on overcoming camera anxiety. The speaker describes committing to a challenge of multiple coffee chats to build confidence and expand their network, documenting their journey toward facing this fear.
At some point, you hit a road or you hit a block where it's like, I need to be so ironclad in who I am for myself that I don't need to shapeshift for anybody else. So that's, of course, like, my life journey is still working on towards that and becoming that person. But it became so apparent to me in that moment of not being able to put my face on camera that I knew it was a block I had to overcome if I wanted to get past making the three to $5,000 a month that I was making at that time, just from referrals and not being on camera. So what I ended up doing was committing to this challenge and committing to overcoming this fear. And I went in groups, and I was like, hey, will you do a coffee chat with me? I'm an extrovert. I work in my basement. Like, I really just want to chat with people. And I set up, like, 30 coffee chats in a matter of a few days, and I ended up talking with everyone, and I actually made 30 new friends.