A speaker argues that awkwardness shouldn't stop you from addressing hard topics like sexual assault. Decades ago these subjects stayed silent. He chooses to speak anyway, treating his discomfort as fuel for courage rather than a reason to stay quiet.
Do you think I'm doing this job if I listened to what people told me to do? Do you think people 20, 30 years ago were saying, you should go make a living speaking about sexual assault? In the 1990s, do you think anybody was doing that? But awkward me thought, I still think I can. And I let awkward me lead the way. I just let awkward me be courageous. So what I mean by that is only awkward, but say that I'm not gonna let that stop me from talking to people, from engaging. So I can think how I wanna talk to people, right? But I wanna jump through that, if that makes sense.
