The Ignite idea is that if enough people vote up your idea and put you on the stage, you get 5 minutes and 20 slides (which auto advance every 15 seconds) to say your piece and change the world.
So, it’s much delayed, but here it is. The SlideShare slides are below (btw, I’m no longer @glowbird on Twitter, I’m @LCBledsoe now):
Thanks again to the fabulous producers of both the Ignite Raleigh and the Ignite Durham show, Ryan Boyles, Zach Ward and Jeffrey L. Cohen and all of you who voted me onto the stage!
I’ve never actually had a fight in a bar, but that seemed hardly relevant when I had the idea for this Ignite Durham speech (<– click link for video, if you’re reading this on Facebook). It didn’t seem to bother anyone who voted for me, either, and I thank you for that.
The Ignite idea is that if enough people vote up your idea and put you on the stage, you get 5 minutes and 20 slides (which auto advance every 15 seconds) to say your piece and change the world.
Or at least have a few laughs and beers with friends, which can also be wonderful. You must end precisely on time or you get razzed, Rick-rolled, and pelted with fruit. As you can see from the video, I missed the cut-off by half a sentence, so I didn’t get the fruit treatment, only the razz and roll.
I want to be sure and thank the real power behind this speech to my friend Mike Velotta, who taught me a little bit of Brazilian Ju Jitsu and has worked with me in the boxing ring as well. Mike is a wonderfully friendly, potentially deadly man, and he spent several hours talking to me (and periodically demonstrating) the key things people should consider and act on in any bar fight, dark parking lot, or other dangerous situation.
Everything in this speech comes out of my notes from talking and working with Mike, although I should add that I didn’t get to run it past him before getting on stage, so I may have screwed up something without knowing it.
Thanks to the hard-working producers of this year’s Ignite Durham: Ryan Boyles, Zach Ward and Jeffrey L. Cohen – the same people that bring us Ignite Raleigh!
PS: I just now realized I never posted my speech from last year, “13 Reasons Women Should Take Up Boxing” so look for that video in a few days!
Ignite Durham is February 9, 2011 at the Carolina Theatre in Durham NC, and it’s time to get over to the Ignite website and vote for me. Again! Subject: “How to Win a Fight in a Bar” — c’mon, this is critical life information we’re talking about, you pansies.
Ignite speakers around the world have exactly 5 minutes to teach, enlighten, amuse, or inspire — and they get 20 slides which auto-advance every 15 seconds. Only the topics with the highest number of votes are chosen, although the esteemed organizers of the events also toss us a few extras for funsies. Plus there was the crazy dude in the red tutu last year.
Last year you voted for my presentation “13 Reasons Women Should Take Up Boxing” 253 times to get me into the show — thank you very much for the clicks, the hollering from the gallery, and the free beers you plied me with afterwards, I LOVE you my people! And of course, as a result more women around the Triangle are kicking ass and taking names. You are doing that, right? You better be.
This year we gonna crank it up a few notches.
You may know how to make love, but I’m gonna tell you how to make war. Give me 5 minutes and I’ll tell you everything you need to know to handle the roughest, toughest bar rat Patrick Swayze ever brought to Chuck Norris for a lesson in nice.
Don’t worry, out-of-towners. Go ahead and vote for me and after the dust settles I’ll send out the links to the video so that you too will be ready for your next bar fight. Hell, you may be looking for your next bar fight.
Everyone who goes to the site gets ten votes, you can give me three of them.
