We are just a few episodes away from 500, and we wanted to make our countdown to this celebration something special!

Today, you’ll be hearing from not one, not two, but SEVEN amazing women in speaking. They are sharing their tips, tricks, and advice to help you launch a speaking career.

Throughout this episode, you’ll learn about how to show up on stage, why you need strong processes for success, and what it means to stick to the process when the going gets tough. Let’s get into it!

In this episode, you’ll hear from:

Brittany Richmond - Brittany is an emotionally dynamic, impactfully vibrant, high-demand teen mental health speaker and one of the few active women speakers in the youth market today! She has spoken on some of the largest and most prestigious youth leadership stages and has served thousands of students all over the country with her message: Become an Overcomer.

Dr. India White - Dr India helps teachers and principals cultivate grit on campus to assist in closing the achievement gap for every learner.

Lisa Perez - Lisa is on the mission of Transforming the Human in Human Resources. She speaks to organizations and associations about the critical soft skills required to reduce the statistics that indicate 60% of employees say that managers are the reason they left their company.

Michelle Onourah - Michelle is a bestselling author, speaker, and spiritual direction teacher who created the Prophetic Listening Method™.

Sara Murray - Sara is a life-long sales fanatic who specializes in teaching teams how to create transformational sales experiences.

Stephanie Duguid - Dr Stephanie has focused her energy on helping to empower women in educational leadership to become transformational and positive leaders in education.

Dr. Sue Ettinger - Dr Sue is a board-certified veterinary cancer specialist, book author & international speaker dedicated to increasing cancer awareness and early detection.

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“We can serve everybody, but that's being selfish, because it is impossible to give deep impactful, valuable change in a certain demographic if you are serving everyone in the world."

This week, Brittany Richmond and Erin Pompa sat down to talk about all things speaking. Erin’s been a youth speaker for years and has had just about every experience you can have while building a speaking career. In this episode, Brittany and Erin get into the good, the bad, and the ugly as you balance your impact and your opposition.

"And I had to learn how to release that pressure that I was putting on myself to be perfect."

During this conversation, they cover:

• 05:07 Let’s meet Erin Pompa.
• 07:11 What was your journey to becoming a speaker?
• 10:43 How did you get started when you decided to become a speaker?
• 15:06 Erin’s journey to finding her voice and message as a speaker.
• 19:33 Tips for working a room while you’re speaking.
• 22:59 The reality of getting negative feedback.
• 25:08 What does it mean to be a speaker and put yourself on stage.
• 29:05 How to reach your audience before you give your talk.

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• Erin's Website
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• Erin's Youtube
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"And what I found out, Grant, that I was building a level of success financially, but I was doing it from a huge relationship deficit. And I didn't know my daughters like I should, and I didn't know my wife like I should."

This week, Grant sat down with Aaron Walker, aka Big A, to talk about how to build a life of significance outside of what you do. Grant often says, “who you are is more important than what you do,” and this episode really hits on that. As driven people, it’s easy to get caught up in the outcomes, the money, and the success, but it’s important to be intentional about curating relationships that will enrich your life and make it mean more.

"Do an evaluation, like, what gives me energy? What are the things that only I can do? Because when they are taking energy, you've only got so much bandwidth, there's only so much determination you can pull from, and you're going to crash and hit the wall, which I've done a couple of times I'm not proud of, but I had to take months off for a period of time because I'm such a hard charger and I want to accomplish, I want to go, but I'm like, you know what? I can't do that. So now what we've done is devised a plan and a strategy. I'm going to work within this framework. I'm going to work this many hours, and whatever I can get done, I'm going to get done.”

In this episode, Grant and Big A talk about:

• 00:00 Who Big A is and his story.
• 05:45 Success is fantastic, but how do you balance it with significance?
• 08:04 Why boundaries and accountability are important.
• 09:55 The importance of delegation.
• 14:43 Optimizing for success at work and at home.
• 16:44 How to develop better relationships with the people that matter.
• 22:41 What does it look like to create boundaries when delegation isn’t possible?
• 25:23 Embracing commitment to your people before your work.
• 26:37 How speaking fits into Big A’s life and time commitments.
• 31:43 Big A’s mastermind group
• 34:07 How to find quality accountability partners for your life.

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