Confessing something personal about yourself can also make the audience feel connected with you. I had a client recently a senior person in her company who confessed to her colleagues at major company meeting that she had been a bar tender, a taxi driver,and short-order cook in order to pay her college tuition. the audience was amazed and thrilled as she drove home her point that we can all do more than we realize if we have the will to do whatever it takes.One definition of courage, she said, is acting out of character.