Audiences Need Relatable Speakers | @caroline-cavanagh | The Anxiety Alchemist

This is very much my personal view, but a view that's been influenced by spending a lot of time around amazing speakers and audiences. And not taking away from the fact someone that has rowed solo across the Atlantic, or I don't know, cartwheeled up Kilimanjaro, done amazing physical feats, gold medal winners in Olympics, I laud them. My but is, how relatable are they to the general audience sitting in a theatre in London? Yes, they are inspired by such feats, but can they really make that link between the person that's on stage and who they are when they go back to their 2-bedroom semi with their kids that are being a nightmare? So I think now that there is a real importance for the audience to be able to relate to the people that are talking to them. So I can stand up and go, I've had domestic abuse, I've had a miscarriage, I haven't followed career opportunities that have caused me to have mental health problems. And just as a mere mortal being with 2 legs, 2 arms, that can just about do a 5K on a good day. This is me. I'm very close to you, and if I can do this, so can you.