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What would you say is your why and what you do?

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My why is probably the thousands of women that we work with on the Innovation Women platform.

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We actually do something we call Speaker Friend Fridays and we have a Zoom call every Friday

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morning, quarter of nine Eastern, and anybody can come. And when people come, often I think they

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expect a hard sell. They expect people to be kind of jumping on them and like, oh, you have to be

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paying us lots of money to unveil the secrets of public speaking. And I think they have been

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conditioned a little bit to expect that because there is a lot of predatory stuff out there about

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public speaking. People are like, pay us lots of money and you're going to learn the secrets of

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public speaking. Make a seven figure income from public speaking. And the reality is like,

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nobody is just going to jump up on stage and people are going to pay you lots of money to be

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a speaker. You have to build a career. You have to build a business around public speaking.

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This stuff takes time. And whenever I get pitched on the people who are selling this stuff around

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public speaking, I always think to myself, if the people you're selling to had a couple of friends

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who were also interested in public speaking and who were on the public speaking journey,

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you could travel together and you can learn together and you can help support each other.

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So that's one of the reasons we call that session speaker friends is, you know, we know that

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the most successful speakers are often ones who have speaker friends and they can help each other.

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So we're really trying to help people get comfortable with the idea about public speaking

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public speaking, say yes, if they're invited, and also learn and grow as speakers and business people.

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A lot of people use public speaking to support a business or to help build a business.

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And I don't think they think about it this way, but they're actually building another business

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on top of that business. So all of a sudden, you know, if you're doing public speaking to support

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your day job, you are building two businesses at the same time. And that's a lot.

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So you need to give yourself a break.