Here’s what I’ve decided: I’m never sorry about something I did. I only have regrets about the things I didn’t do.

There’s a corollary to this: everything works . . . if you do it. [In other words, cold calling works . . . for people who cold call!]

Off to DO something – W!

PS – Benefit update: Leslie just invited George and I to dinner at her home, with with two other couples we don’t know!
# Posted By Wendy Kinney | 11/18/08 4:14 PM

A million years ago when I was a teen and didn’t know any better, I wondered what skill set I would need in order to be on the radio, so I called the guy on the radio. He blew me off (without me knowing it) by telling me to go take a test at the FCC field office and get a 3rd class license with broadcast endorsement.

So I did.

Called him back and asked, “Now what do I need?” and he told me to come in and talk with him. He asked if I had any tapes, and I thought, “Sheesh, this is a radio station…don’t they have their own music?” but then realized as he set me up in the production studio that he meant tapes of me doing a radio show. Nope, never had done it, so couldn’t have a tape.

So I made one.

He was chuckling as he came back into his office, telling me it was the worst tape he had ever heard, and asking if I could start the following weekend.

And I did.

It was probably 3 months before I was allowed to do an actual show…had to learn how to run the equipment by running the board for the Sunday morning block of public affairs programming, but it was paid learning and showed me a way into a world I never knew existed.

And it was lessons I never forgot throughout 32 years in the radio business…a business I had a natural aptitude for, apparently, because 30 years of that career was in major market radio.

Never be afraid to ask something you don’t know.

Never be afraid to try something you haven’t done.

Never be afraid to stretch your wings to test how far they can take you on the winds of opportunity.
# Posted By Sandy Weaver Carman | 11/18/08 3:34 PM

Elizabeth just emailed that she bought a Zoom and is enjoying using it.

Leslie has invited me to a networking event next month.

Gosh, I’m benefiting from this.
# Posted By Wendy L. Kinney | 10/27/08 10:04 PM