on stage as an auctioneer .
I became a charity auctioneer for Christie's when I was 24 years old.
were already art auctioneers .
I am the lead charity auctioneer for Christie's Auction House, but I've also written a book called "The Most Powerful Woman in the Room Is You."
and also be a charity auctioneer on the side.
And that was the only type of auctioneering I had ever seen.
And I called all of the other auctioneers -- this was so long ago it was like a flip phone.
Everyone I worked with at that point who was an auctioneer , for the most part, was at least 20 years older than me, and 90% of them were male.
And so when I trained to be an auctioneer , you try out kind of like "Survivor."
It doesn't have to be me selling as an art auctioneer .
I feel like auctioneer up here.
You're the biggest auctioneer in the world, but the highest bidder isn't necessarily the winning bid, right?
You'll probably get arrested, and so you cannot get away with a gavel unless you're an auctioneer in a meeting, you guys.
So when I went up for my turn, I did exactly what I had seen our 70-year-old amazing auctioneer do when he was selling Picassos.
And all of a sudden, I was on stage, and I felt just like a normal me, as opposed to this British auctioneer
And so instead of saying what I would have said, if I hadn't been sick all day and felt like I was playing auctioneer ,
Prior to joining Christie's, Mr. Rendell served as the head of the print department of Phillips, the London-based auctioneer .