These Can Betray You
Feelings don’t always tell the truth.
In 1975, the song “Feelings” was on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for 32 weeks.
A few years later, Bell Telephone used the song in a TV commercial, encouraging us to make phone calls and share our… feelings…nothing more than feelings.
The commercial shows a man talking on the phone and smiling while you hear the song playing. Ask anyone alive and not in diapers during the seventies and they’ll know the song.
My grandmother saw the commercial while she watched her afternoon “stories,” and thought they were singing, “Tea leaves… nothing more than tea leaves…”
True story.
Standing in front of a hotel conference room full of college women about to begin their professional careers, dark thoughts pushed their way to the front of my brain.
“She hates me. They probably all hate this talk. I’m no good at this.”
In the middle of your talk, standing in front of a roomful of people isn’t when you want things to unravel, so the angel on my other shoulder says, “Get a grip. Keep going. You got this!”
How I ended up here.
It all started when I hustled this speaking gig at the fanciest hotel in Canada — the Fairmont…
