Mel Abraham showed up to a webinar for accountants and attorneys in Superman pajama bottoms and no shirt, thinking the camera was off. The chat of 250 people immediately called it out. He turned the embarrassment into a lesson about checking your setup before going live.
I just want you to know that, like they said, just get out there and do it. Just get out there and do it. Ain't nothing you're gonna do is gonna be terminal, okay? Number of years ago, so I've been doing a lot of presenting and speaking, and I get asked to do a presentation. Back then, Zoom wasn't around, GoToWebinar, you know. I go, and it's for a national organization that I got— they gave me the Lifetime Achievement Award, which is It's really an organization's nice way of saying you're old. So I roll out, it's in a morning seminar. It's for a bunch of accountants, actuaries, and attorneys. Oh, they're ripe in the morning. So 9 o'clock in the morning, you know, I roll out of bed, Superman pajama bottoms, no shirt. I strap in because it's just a webinar. They're gonna see my slides, who cares? I put my headphones on, I start the webinar. There's 250 people on the webinar, and all of a sudden I look at the chat. I look at that. Mel's naked. He's got no shirt on. I look at it and I see the webcam's on. I go, "Oh no!" Post-its became really valuable.
