When a company hires you to speak at an event, do you simply think of yourself as just another person they’ve hired that will appear on their stage? You parachute in, do your thing, leave and then collect a check? Or, do you think of yourself as a ‘partner’ with the organization and someone who
We have all been there. Trying to achieve the next level of our income in our business and boom – we hit a brick wall. We are stuck in our ‘Money Comfort Zone’. It is almost like your subconscious says, “well, we are making just about the right amount of money, so let’s stay here
I have a very important question for you: Where do you get your speaking business? Are you hustling and booking everything directly? Are they coming through referrals? Or are you using speakers bureaus and social media? Every day there are more and more apps and platforms popping up that purport to help speakers get booked.
Have you heard of flashpoints before? We use this term in The Wealthy Speaker 2.0 to indicate when a speaker has hit a new level of success. As defined in this past blog post, a flashpoint is “that moment when things fall into place, and the hard work really starts to pay off.” What kind
Today we are continuing our conversation with Ryan Estis about his journey to a million dollar speaking business. If you didn’t catch Part I of this podcast…stop right now and click here to listen before you go any further. While this podcast is jam packed with more valuable information, we just don’t want you to miss
In a few weeks our next 12-week business accelerator online course will be starting. It is a program where we deliver learning modules and meet bi-weekly with the students in the course. For this course, I will be practicing the art of letting go as I am handing a lot of the duties over to
Do you wonder what the journey to a million dollar speaking business looks like and what it takes to achieve? In this week’s podcast, we are joined by professional speaker Ryan Estis, who does about 80 live events per year and has a $1M as a speaking business, to learn just that! In 2009, Ryan
Are you running your business or is your business running you? If you are anything like me, you value freedom. Freedom to choose how you want to spend your time. Freedom to spend that time with the people you love, doing things that make you happy. Of course, there are times in our business where
You have all heard me talking about some of my fastest growth clients before. Ryan Estis moved past the million dollar milestone in about four years. Kindra Hall is in year three and well on her way. “And what do these two have that is so special,” you might ask? They have the platform. And
Every professional speaker should be looking for ways to build their following and revenue and there are a number of ways to do that. In Episode 55 of the Wealthy Speaker Podcast, we are joined by Katie Krimitsos, founder of Biz Women Rock – a community and education resource for action-driven women who are looking
Imagine you are getting ready to speak in front of 1500 of your peers; professional speakers who can be your warmest audience, but also the most critical. They examine your work like no other audience, knowing when a story or idea lands, or when it fails miserably. They can be your biggest cheerleaders or your harshest
Each episode of The Wealthy Speaker Podcast features a guest star in the speaking industry…someone who is ready to share knowledge about their specific area of expertise, whether it is marketing your speaking business, booking more gigs, perfecting your presentation, or something else. This week I decided to try something a little different. The featured
When a company hires you to speak at an event, do you simply think of yourself as just another person they’ve hired that will appear on their stage? You parachute in, do your thing, leave and then collect a check? Or, do you think of yourself as a ‘partner’ with the organization and someone who
We have all been there. Trying to achieve the next level of our income in our business and boom – we hit a brick wall. We are stuck in our ‘Money Comfort Zone’. It is almost like your subconscious says, “well, we are making just about the right amount of money, so let’s stay here
I have a very important question for you: Where do you get your speaking business? Are you hustling and booking everything directly? Are they coming through referrals? Or are you using speakers bureaus and social media? Every day there are more and more apps and platforms popping up that purport to help speakers get booked.
Have you heard of flashpoints before? We use this term in The Wealthy Speaker 2.0 to indicate when a speaker has hit a new level of success. As defined in this past blog post, a flashpoint is “that moment when things fall into place, and the hard work really starts to pay off.” What kind
Today we are continuing our conversation with Ryan Estis about his journey to a million dollar speaking business. If you didn’t catch Part I of this podcast…stop right now and click here to listen before you go any further. While this podcast is jam packed with more valuable information, we just don’t want you to miss
In a few weeks our next 12-week business accelerator online course will be starting. It is a program where we deliver learning modules and meet bi-weekly with the students in the course. For this course, I will be practicing the art of letting go as I am handing a lot of the duties over to
Do you wonder what the journey to a million dollar speaking business looks like and what it takes to achieve? In this week’s podcast, we are joined by professional speaker Ryan Estis, who does about 80 live events per year and has a $1M as a speaking business, to learn just that! In 2009, Ryan
Are you running your business or is your business running you? If you are anything like me, you value freedom. Freedom to choose how you want to spend your time. Freedom to spend that time with the people you love, doing things that make you happy. Of course, there are times in our business where
You have all heard me talking about some of my fastest growth clients before. Ryan Estis moved past the million dollar milestone in about four years. Kindra Hall is in year three and well on her way. “And what do these two have that is so special,” you might ask? They have the platform. And
Every professional speaker should be looking for ways to build their following and revenue and there are a number of ways to do that. In Episode 55 of the Wealthy Speaker Podcast, we are joined by Katie Krimitsos, founder of Biz Women Rock – a community and education resource for action-driven women who are looking
Imagine you are getting ready to speak in front of 1500 of your peers; professional speakers who can be your warmest audience, but also the most critical. They examine your work like no other audience, knowing when a story or idea lands, or when it fails miserably. They can be your biggest cheerleaders or your harshest
Each episode of The Wealthy Speaker Podcast features a guest star in the speaking industry…someone who is ready to share knowledge about their specific area of expertise, whether it is marketing your speaking business, booking more gigs, perfecting your presentation, or something else. This week I decided to try something a little different. The featured
Relationships still run the speaking business (yes, even now). Jane has laid out three of the reasons to help you get more bookings!