Welcome back live to MAVO 2018. I’m now joined by the fabulous Nicola Richards. How are you this morning?
Marvelous.
I am doing well. So you are a host on the opening night. Tell us what that experience was like.
First of all, I think I’m still recovering.
As am I, actually.
Well, it was a lot of fun, because we hadn’t done something like that before. So to have the beginning, the intros, and then into the karaoke, it was a lot of fun. But as I said, I am still recovering.
But it was a lot of fun, a lot of singers. Yeah.
I tried to sing. I don’t know if you could call it singing.
A bit like My Sweet Caroline.
I did The Power of Love from Back to the Future, and did not realize how high the key was. So about halfway through, my voice started cracking. I had to bring it down here and completely change the song.
It was not pretty. There’s actually a video of it that I think Anna Clements tweeted out.
I think it got like… That went viral, didn’t it?
Probably. So tell me what you’ve enjoyed about the conference so far. Have you had a chance to go to any sessions?
I have, actually. This time has been really good for that because when I was here a few years ago, I was doing things at different times. I didn’t manage to see as much as I wanted to.
So this time, I feel like I’ve seen most people, most of our guest speakers. And I’ve been to a couple of breakout sessions. But for me, this conference is just, well, it’s getting inspired.
So I found it massively inspiring once again. And got a few different tips. I went to a gaming, for video games, which I’ve never sort of even looked into before.
But I found that fascinating. So that could be something I would look more into maybe.
Yeah. So unfortunately we’re almost done. It’s Sunday morning, Sunday afternoon.
Is there anything you’re still looking forward to this afternoon?
So there’s a couple of things. I know Herb Moore has got a session today, and Mark Scott as well. So I’m looking forward to those.
Bit more networking, bit more inspirational videos with people probably.
Have you done a lot of live videos here?
I’ve been doing a few. And sort of trying to get clips of people, like what’s been inspiring for them throughout the conference. It’s been quite interesting.
Lots of different answers.
So what’s your biggest takeaway? When you leave the conference, you go back, are you going back home after this?
Back to England, and then I’m going literally a day later to Lisbon, because I’m going off on my travels again.
That sounds fun. So what’s the biggest thing you’re going to take away from the conference, you think?
I think, and this is something I’m quite passionate about anyway, but the importance of being true to yourself, especially in your voice career and things like that, because that seems to have been quite a theme. I know Kari Walgren, she spoke about that, about being authentic and genuine and following things that you are truly passionate about. I feel like I’m going to do more of that.
That’s great. I noticed that as well. Kari mentioned it, like you said.
I know Gabby Nistico mentioned it in her session. And even Joseph Riano in his promo session talked about not being all the time amped up to do the promos that you think of that he does. He found a lot of his work recently with CBS by bringing it back and being more conversational.
Yeah, exactly.
And that’s a, I think that, yeah, that’s a theme that I’ll definitely, the biggest one I’ll probably take away.
Awesome. Well, thanks for being with us this morning and enjoy much stuff for the show.
Thank you very much.