12/15/2025
"What you just did on stage shows me that you have a level of confidence I can't quite fathom. How do you share those things in front of people and seemingly not care what they think?"
This was the question posed by a 23-year old audience member after a recent event, and I was happy to try and offer my best answer:
We all have our gifts, these are mine, it is my responsibility and privilege to share them.
He wasn't satisfied with this answer, but that was the tall and short of it.
I made a Promise a long time ago to use what I can do with my face, voice, and imagination to teach, make others laugh, think, and even feel challenged in their own willingness to hide or express their talents. It is Show & Tell.
I have failed in this effort much more than I have succeeded. Yet while most just sit and watch, wondering how people have the confidence to put their work on display, the few who actually go in the arena and face an audience of critics win the greatest reward.
The Artist creates what he feels is his art that cannot remain hidden, and the audience will appear. I have been fortunate enough to have the right audience members become my advocates, and then bring me into their most important events to teach and share my art in this most unique, performative way.
Need more confidence? Fail frequently until you succeed, and you will find much more success by keeping that Promise than if you had never dared to try.
