As the Zoom meeting closed, I smiled into the camera until all had for sure ended, and click – it was over. I had been staring into the ring light and camera lens for 6 hours straight, as Emcee for a multi-day virtual conference, and this was the 3rd and final day. Holding myself up from collapse, I quickly disconnected the microphone, shut the computer down, hurriedly unbuttoned my shirt, stripped off my SPANX (yeah I wear the shirt for men, so what), and stumbled 12 steps down the hall and into my bed. I fell sound asleep for 3 hours. “THIS IS THE LIFE OF THE RICH AND FAMOUS!” (say that in the immortal voice of Robin Leach) Upon waking, I took the rest of the day to walk around the lake by our home, played basketball with my sons, let my daughter drive around the empty church parking lot, took my wife out for a quick dinner date, and read my youngest child a story as he fell asleep. This is the new life of the Virtual Speaker, and because of the taxing nature of these Zoom events, I am learning a valuable lesson I never really