"Be Your Spectacular You: The Permission Slip Your PD Never Gave You"

 It's time for you to bring your real personality to the table. It's's time to let go of your fear of being judged. Throw that mindset out of the window. This is self limiting thinking. Say to yourself the next time you are on the air, "I'm gonna talk about this the way I want to talk about it". Throw everything else out the window and go for it. In a phone conversation I had with Ben Burnside back in 2021 from my notes I was taking, he said " I want to hear a show when everybody in the studio just says F_ _K it! That means a show where they have thrown abandon out the window. It means being yourself on the air, and you don't care anymore about being the real you before the people. You are shedding the false personna that you have tried to uphold for all these years. It's time to let that person go!

Throw those self imposed rules you have been carrying around in your head about how you want people to percieve you in the garbage can.

 Now what this does not mean is to be irresponsible and get yourself fired. What it does mean, is to give yourself permission to grow. I'm not talking about a shock jock. I'm not talking about saying things on the air that you don't mean for attention. I'm talking about the real you who does not care if people agree with you or not. Kill the go along to get along narrative that makes you boring to listen to. 

You need to talk to your audience in such a real way that they can't turn you off. You must learn to be  Your Spectacular You On The Airwaves. You need to make people feel something when they listen to you. 

Ken Dowe at KRNB in Dallas changed my attitude about on air performance. When I got there in Feb 2004 to do mornings, he sat me in his office and said, "coming from Charlotte, you were ok on the air, but this is what I want you to do. I want you to go on the air and just be a man. I want you to say what you want to say and just do it your way". Sam Weaver was my PD and he reinforced this new mindset for my development. Sam and Ken taught me alot about personality radio during that period of me being there. I became syndicated in 2005 through Superadio. It was a real growth stage for me and I was liberated as an on air performer, even though my time there was short lived, READ HERE (https://insideurbanmedia.blogspot.com/2025/12/driving-station-van-during-steve-harvey.html  ). I came away from that experince on another level. I hope you have a coach in your career like that who says Go for it! In case you don't, I'm telling you, because I know I'm right. Shake up the market by being you, everytime you open the microphone. This is the only way you will justify your existence for being behind the Mic!