Congratulations to Andrew! I've learned a lot from watching Mixergy, but more importantly from doing a little role-reversal and interviewing Andrew myself. I t

Congratulations to Andrew! I've learned a lot from watching Mixergy, but more importantly from doing a little role-reversal and interviewing Andrew myself. I took a 'Principles of Interviewing' course in college and one of our assignments was to record three interviews with people in the industry I wanted to get into. Being interested in tech/entrepreneurship, Andrew was my top interview candidate. The plan was to interview him first and get feedback because learning from someone who does interviews for a living would prepare me for the other two interviews. He was gracious enough to agree, and we recorded before one of his regularly scheduled interviews. I was nervous as hell! I mean, you never really see an interviewer being interviewed themselves. What questions do you ask? I asked a lot of basic questions (history, inspiration, setbacks, etc.) and a few that made Andrew sit back and go, "hmmm, that's a good question..." but the real knowledge I gained came with Andrew's feedback immediately after. The magnitude of which has slowly been realized since: feeling uncomfortable is good. Doing something new almost always feels uncomfortable to some degree... and an entrepreneur is almost always doing something new. Rather than try to mitigate that uneasy feeling, you can take it and embrace it. That dissonance between your gut and your brain is the origin of curiosity; where knowledge is needed to fill the holes. If something feels uncomfortable, it's because you haven't done it enough. You don't fully understand it. While it helps to have a mentor who can say whether an uneasy feeling is normal and how to get over it, the important thing is to just get your hands dirty. Just do that new task, or ask that difficult question. It's been rewarding to watch Mixergy develop over the years—to see Andrew dirty his hands and dive into that space which makes every interviewee feel uncomfortable and vulnerable (as well as himself). Thanks for everything, Andrew!