Lydia Fenette

It happens every single month.

There's a parent-teacher conference.

Stand up once a month and ask a question.

Feel that adrenaline come in.

Understand what nerves feel like.

Because once you feel it, you start to recognize it, and then it stops holding that fear over you, that grip over you.

And, you know, in terms of asking the girl out, I think sometimes you just have to have a leap of faith.

But in other things, there's always the opportunity to practice when the lift or the setting is low so that you have the opportunity to get better the more you do it.

Definitely.

I've become a charity auctioneer over the course of my career.

But when I tried out, I was young, I was not very good.

And I had all of these sort of disastrous nights on stage where I would get up there and something would go terribly awry.

And I would leave and cry a lot because that was always sort of my coping mechanism for not being competent, but wanting to be more competent and also to gain confidence on stage.

And what I learned every single time was that when something happened on stage that went terribly wrong, it was

It prepared me for the next time that it happened again, because over the course of a two-decade career where you're on stage over 60, 70, 80 nights a year, things do go wrong pretty much every single time.

So we talk a lot about microphones, right?

That's an important part of your interview process.

You want to make sure that it's great.

I've been on stage nine times over the course of my career where people have either

forgotten to get a microphone or the microphone just didn't work.