{"id":841,"date":"2009-12-11T10:02:42","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T17:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=841"},"modified":"2025-11-06T09:16:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T16:16:19","slug":"the-interesting-people-we-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=841","title":{"rendered":"The Interesting People we Meet"},"content":{"rendered":"

I met the most interesting person at my November conference.\u00a0 She was running the show… and was the liaison between the conference center and everyone.\u00a0 She had the most amazing presence.\u00a0 She dominated in her walk and in everything she did.\u00a0 Yet managed to make you feel that she was there for you, to make sure your experience was the best she could make it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That is unusual for exhibitors at a conference.\u00a0 We’re the ones paid to advertise to you, sell you stuff or just pitch all we can while you rush past us trying to get to your lecture or session.\u00a0 And unless we pay extra for the lunch we don’t get any of the food the conference provided you for your paid enrollment (almost the same we paid to exhibit) so we’re often scavenging the leftovers when the crowds die down.\u00a0 Needless to say we’re tolerated as a necessary evil.\u00a0 Poor us.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But Nilda treated us with just as much respect as any attendee.\u00a0 And when the conference center had booked a wedding which was going to spill out into the hallway where we were and they wanted to move us.\u00a0 Nilda stepped in to make sure if they did that to us they moved us right back and didn’t move us until after the Exhibit break.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aside from all that she was a fascinating woman.\u00a0 She was on a softball team and it showed in her frame.\u00a0 And she was in the Air Force, wondering about being a drill sergeant before family obligation pulled her out of service, and it showed in her stance and walk.<\/strong><\/p>\n

She was a proud woman and had earned the right to be that.\u00a0 She demanded top performance of herself and those around her, but did it in a way that wasn’t mean or scary.\u00a0 Not to say she wasn’t scary!\u00a0 She had that hotel staff completely confused.\u00a0 They couldn’t tell whether they did or didn’t like her!\u00a0 She easily bonded to people because she instantly gave you respect and treated you as a valued person fully capable of the 100% she expected from you.\u00a0\u00a0 But she took no shit, told it like it was and refused to accept anything less than what she felt due her conference.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ah… but you should see her smile.\u00a0 As capable and confident as she comes across, she loves to smile and laugh at a good funny comment.\u00a0 I gave her my observed opinion of her during one of our many conversations and I got to see the smile turn into a pleased blush.\u00a0 Which she completely admitted to!\u00a0 And her blush isn’t easy to see on her dark features.\u00a0 But like Asian Mike at the post office, I can see it.\u00a0 (Mike’s eyes completely disappear, when he blushes… and you know how I like to taunt a man until he’s speechless!\u00a0 Pity Mike!)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nilda will dominant any room and every situation she’s in, but for all that she’s like every one of us.\u00a0 We love it when we’re seen, really seen, for more than just the surface of what we project.\u00a0 I got the pleasure of sharing what I see of the woman Nilda and watch that smile deepen into her femininity.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So I made a new friend who found my humor funny and my opinions insightful.\u00a0 When she found out I blogged, she went straight to the site.\u00a0 So welcome to the blog, Nilda, everyone say Hi.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And I apologize for the delay in getting this posted… I been busy!<\/strong><\/p>\n


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