Kenston Henderson arrives a day early to test equipment and walk the empty venue, greeting imaginary audience members with daps and high-fives. He eliminates technical worries and builds familiarity with the space so he can focus entirely on his delivery.
Hey, great people! Just wanted to give you some inside look— looks on what I do as a speaker. I like to get in a day before so I can come check out the place, make sure everything is good to go, make sure the projector is working, make sure the other equipment is working so I don't have to, you know, fumble around when it's time for me to speak. I just want to speak. I want to have fun. I want to— I, you know, relieve myself from any other things, right? And so it's important that you do that as a speaker, or if you have somebody going before you or assistant, you can do that, have them do that to make sure everything is good to go so you come in and do what you was meant to do— impact. So awesome, uh, this is a part of, you know, my regimen. I walk the room, I walk in and outside the the aisles. So again, this is creating familiarity for me. Like, I've already done some work where I'm mentally prepared for the event, and then again, I just come and walk through the rows, just, you know, acting like I'm giving people a dap or an elbow or high five. Just again, so it's creating familiarity and it's setting the atmosphere. That's what it's doing for a great time to take place. So, so excited to be here. It's gonna go up, up, up, up. Yeah.
