I am actually quite shy, and sometimes find it hard to talk to people
I do not know.  However, I have found in the past that speaking
'ex-cathedra' overcomes a great deal of that.  For example, when I
worked for the Red Cross, I had to make a great number of cold calls.
Ordinarily, this would have been something that made me quite
uncomfortable.  Since I was calling as a representative of the Red
Cross, and not simply as me, I found it much easier to talk to those
people I didn't know.  I feel that being baroness is similar, in that
I am not always speaking as a person, but as an office or a
representative of a group (in this case, Carolingia).
