Posted on March 8, 2024 by Host T. Amato
I couldn’t be more excited to begin this three day journey into the unknown and into our future as a company, and as a leader in entrepreneurial and visionary leadership experiences.It’s been a tremendous amount of work, and I’m definitely learning as I go along. And while I have high hopes that this weekend will be a major success, I can only imagine how much better Amanda Con 2025 will be knowing what we know now.
It’s been tremendously stressful and time-consuming for me. Juggling not only preparation for this, but dealing with the sad and unfortunate funeral of my stepson, Matt Newman, and caring, tending for and using tenderness and love to comfort my ex-wife Tony Newman. She needs me now more than ever.
It also came as a shock to me when my dad surprisingly announced he would not tolerate any facial hair at Amato con from its presenters. It was too late and nearly impossible to create conditions for the audience to be hairless when it comes to their facial features, but I was forced to comply and have chosen due to his insistence that I become totally clean shaven for the weekend.
Tony Newman was furious at this decision as she had grown attracted to my goatee, and I have received many, many compliments.
In fact, just the other day, a barista at a local coffee shop complemented on how handsome my goatee, (the hair that which surrounds my mouth and down onto my chin) appeared to her. She gave me a free cup of coffee, and also complemented in general on the salt pepper look of my hair and facial hair as being very attractive.
It is unknown why dad was so furious and to quote him “nauseous” over my facial hair. He was like I’ve never seen him before: extremely upset.
Dad is a kind and merciful man, but he was screaming over this, and it felt like the only way to, stop him from reacting so dramatically was to just suck it up and shave the goatee. After all it is hair and will grow back.
(if you watch Office Hours you'd know that Tim is clean shaven right now, I was wondering how they were gonna handle that)
― frogbs, Saturday, 9 March 2024 16:58 (six months ago) link