Welcome to the magical world of transformation…

Today I faced a super yummy fear!  It was that excited fear you feel right before you speak in front of a group of people:

Coach Cassandra Rae

I know, it’s not the best picture and I look all slouchy…but, who cares? I got to speak to 100 people at Chrystal Bougon’s SoMe Bootcamp!

Here’s how I got the gig…listen up because this is tricky…

I asked for it.

Seriously, that’s all I did.  I sent her an email and asked her if I could lead a short centering exercise.  Okay, I also recorded an audio and sent her a link to listen to with my request. By the way, I also used the audio as a blog post so that it was available for everyone to hear as well. I love leveraging my efforts :~)

Now, she said no to my initial request.  But we agreed that I could do something as long as it wasn’t too woo woo.  And you know what? I think it turned out way better than a centering exercise!

I didn’t even know exactly what I was going to say when I got up there.  But, I knew I was going to bring the group back to the learning state of mind while waking people up after eating lunch.  So I allowed the details of what turned into a Mental/Emotional Stretch to emerge on the spot {I do love improv and it turned out beautifully.}  And what’s even sweeter…she included a link to my website in the emails sent out to all of the participants both before & after the event.  How freaking cool is that?

And it would have never happened if I didn’t ask.  So keep facing those fears, Peeps, and ask for what you want because you just might get it!

Tags: 100 Things I Fear, courage, fear, social media, solopreneur, speaking, success

So when I first created my personal Twitter account I used “simplycassandra” and then when I created a Twitter stream for my business I used “simplyfearless”.  Then I decided I wanted to grab the user “CassandraRae” for obvious reasons and now I have 3 Twitter streams.  Crazy, huh?!  I’m a little perplexed about what to do with them and how to use them.

Then there’s the whole Twitter ~ Facebook connection.  For quite some time now my Simply Fearless Twitter stream has been automatically updating my personal Facebook status.  Now that I have a Facebook Fan Page, it’s also updating that status.  What I found is that anyone who has listed me as a FB friend and fanned my FB fan page will get a duplicate status, which is not cool.

So, it’s time to break the connection.  I’ve already rearranged things for my Simply Fearless Twitter Stream to only update my FB Fan Page and now I just need to figure out which personal Twitter stream to use.  Should I keep “simplycassandra” that has about 1200 followers or transition to “cassandrarae” that is brand new with almost no followers, but is probably better for searchability? Or should I keep them both?

What do you think? I’d love to hear about how you use Twitter.

Tags: facebook, social media, twitter