“I learned how to control my fears and my jitters from my experience with the community chorus.”
Back in 2000, Christine Yablonski moved to a new community and joined a community choral group. Little did she know at the time that this experience would end up changing her life.
The confidence that Christine developed from performing with that group helped her volunteer for a live-action role-playing camp, where she ultimately became a director and head of HR.
At the same time, she and her husband began unschooling their kids, and this led to the opportunity to be on Good Morning America. But… the editors had a biased point of view they wanted to get across, and the footage was edited to make Christine and her husband look pretty goofy.
But the next day they had a chance to be on camera again, this time live with George Stephanopoulos, and then later that afternoon with Joy Behar! Both of these went over very well — so well, in fact, that Christine went on to be an advocate and public speaker for the next few years.
And it all started with that community choral group back in 2000. [Read more…]