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Aug 2024
23m 6s

Obstacles to Building Your Speaking Gig ...

Sarah Archer: Speaker, Comedian, Author, Playwright and Coach
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The question I hear most frequently from people, whether they're starting out on their professional speaking journey, or they have been going at it for a while is this one … "How do I get paid to speak consistently?" All they're getting is the odd few gigs, then tumbleweed. They want a pipeline of speaking gigs but they don't know how to build it, or they're ... Show More
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