I was extremely honored to be asked to speak at TEDxYouth Santa Monica a few months back. OK, I was more than honored – I was stoked! I decided back in June of last year that I wanted to do a TEDx talk at some point in my life, but I really had no idea of how to go about it, or who to approach. It turns out that a really cool woman (a previous Tedx speaker herself) had been following me on Facebook, liked what I had to say about empowering young women via my Girl is NOT a 4 Letter Word platform and suggested me to one of the TEDx event organizers. She connected us via email and next thing you know I was headed off 2 weeks later to a meeting with TEDx to see if my talk would be a good fit. I prepared a pitch and some visuals, met with the organizer and at the end of our meeting I was told that it was and I was IN! Exciting yes. Scary? HELL YES. I immediately started preparing and practicing what I wanted to say – TEDx is so different than any other type of speaking I have ever done.
