There's a nervous excitement in the moments before you go on the air professionally. Before I did my first break on KNJZ, however, I reasoned, "Why should I be nervous? As a kid, I did my own radio shows on tape, in which I had to remain silent between songs and creep quietly up to the microphone when it was time to introduce a song. On KCOU, I chose multi-genre music that I played for up to four hours at a time. On KBIA, I mastered the challenge of having to speak for exactly one or two minutes at a time. I'm sure I can handle saying, 'Smooth Jazz, KNJZ 100.3, with music from Boney James; that's called 'Kyoto...'"
After that realization, the nerves went away.
