

“I’ve heard nightmare stories of people doing important meetings, including interviews, from bed!” shared presentation coach and speaker Rob Biesenbach, “So, yes.

I was then was further distracted wondering if I should tell him that the blotch behind him looked like black mold, just in case it was black mold or to help him avoid a future meeting in which someone zones out and focuses on his wall instead of his words. Was it abstract art, a la Jackson Pollock or my colleague’s two-year-old daughter? Or maybe it was black mold? Whatever it was, it was extremely distracting. Instead, I kept squinting behind him to try and figure out what the splotch was on the wall behind him. I was on a video call with someone I admire tremendously a few weeks back but found myself unable to focus on the subject matter at hand.
