First Time Being on a Podcast
Hello, my fellow Medium friends!
Recently I had a very new and exciting experience! This is not really a blog post but a sum of my feelings and thoughts after it.
I appeared on my first ever podcast — Adventures in Angular! It was a completely new experience for me, I’ve never done anything similar in the past. You can image that I was quite nervous before the recording.
I had to choose a date several months in the future when I was first invited. So by the time the doomsday came, I had already forgotten the original topic. Moreover, I hadn’t spoken English in a long time. I didn’t feel ready at all. My brain started generating all sorts of ideas about how (and why) to cancel the event.
Luckily, I knew that it was just fear. Nothing more, nothing less.
I knew that I wasn’t prepared. I wanted to do something comfortable so bad! Luckily, I told myself that this opportunity is too amazing to pass. Best decision ever.
Well, now that I decided to just do it, I prepared a basic setup with a microphone I borrowed from work. I was nervous, my body was shaking. I remember that I joined the Zoom call used for the recording 30min before our arranged time and waited… And waited… The waiting was the worst part.
The target minute arrived and I was still the only one there. There was hope — maybe they forgot! A couple of minutes later, people started joining the call. We chatted a little, I got slightly less nervous, dare I say even comfortable.
When we started recording, I felt awkward. I had trouble talking fluid English (friends later told me that it was not bad at all), joking with other in the call (friends later told me that it’s normal), and I was frequently just silent, listening. I must say, I had fun. That’s the most important, isn’t it? Even though I wasn’t that good, and I felt awkward when I spoke, I still had fun and learned a lot.
That’s what I wanted to achieve when I accepted the invitation to the podcast. My first ever podcast. I knew that I would be awkward, yet I knew that this uncomfortable experience would teach me a lot. And it did!
I couldn’t listen to the recording after it has been published. I just cannot stand my own voice. But others told me that I was okay. I’m glad that I did not listen to my excuses and fear. Because your brain will always come up with valid reasons why to stay in the comfort zone. But growth happens outside of it.
Thank you for reading this short article. It is very raw and there are probably some mistakes — I just wrote it at 1:40am in the night. I’m too tired to re-read it but I hope that it makes sense. I also hope that it might inspire some person to try something new, something uncomfortable.
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