“What on earth is this?” I asked my new blogging buddies, who found it amusing that I wasn’t familiar with iced tea.
I took a few sips and decided it tasted pretty much like the tea I drink back at home that’s gone cold between emails and tending to a toddler, and put it to the side.
The room was buzzing with chatter, networking and hungry mouths munching on the delicious fare {Disney food is amazing}.
{Meet Stefanie & Leigh – and her iced tea!}
The blogger turned out to not be a blogger at all, instead it was Fran Capo, the world’s fastest talking woman. Fran shared her inspiring story and urged us to always “just say yes”.
Next up to the stage was Chris Brogan. Chris was the person I was most excited about hearing speak. I’d heard of him before, and I’d also seen him at the Disney events prior to the conference and he was super friendly. So friendly that he even offered for me to sit with him at our finale night. The guy is just so darn likable, and smart too!
Chris shared so many brilliant insights that I could probably write posts for a month about them, but my favourite of all was when he said, “Stop saying ‘yes’ to things”. {I know, I know, a contradiction to what Fran said, but there is a difference!}. Chris doesn’t own a TV and says that being online can be a huge time zap. He suggests not having too many browsers open, stop reading so many things, stop being enticed by Twitter and Facebook. He doesn’t deny that these forms of Social Media are vital for blogging, but we need to watch the amount of time we spend on them. So true!
After Chris finished speaking the music once again started, this time playing Be My Guest from Beauty & the Beast, and in marched waiters with trays of champagne.
To finish off the day of learnings we were entertained by Georgia Stitt and Susan Egan who both sang and shared their stories of motherhood. Georgia is conductor and lyricist, and Susan is a broadway actress who played Belle {from Beauty & the Beast} for years. She was also the voice of Megara in the Hercules movie.
Susan and Georgia performed the hilarious Mum Song for us, among a whole host of other performances whilst we sipped our champagne.
I'm not a big fan of Iced tea either. Loving reading about the conference. more more more.
It sounds like so much fun Chantelle…I have enjoyed reading all of your travel stories…I keep dropping hints at home that perhaps we should head off to Disneyland with the kids a little earlier than planned…he just smiles at me!! wishful thinking.
Such valid points made. I've really been re-evaluating my social media time recently. This has helped me with some decisions I think I need to make. Thank you x
Somehow, I thought I'd already said something about your post, but I guess not. Sorry about that.
It was a pleasure to meet you and thanks for the very kind words in the post. I'm glad I didn't ruin your impression of me when you met me. : )
Hope you're well and that the flight back was okay. : )
You have noted very interesting details! ps decent website.
Hello, I just stopped in to visit your blog and thought I’d say I enjoyed myself.