Your Skills Won't Get You Paid Speaking Engagements - Here's What Will

Booked and Paid Speaker Challenge — Podcast Episode

Welcome back to the show. Today I'm breaking down the exact three-part system I've used to get paid to speak in all fifty states and internationally — and how you can build that same system into your own speaking business, no matter where you're starting from.

Here's what you're going to learn in this episode.

• Why talent and passion alone will never make you a paid public speaker.
• The difference between being a speaker and actually running a speaking business.
• How event planners really search for and hire keynote speakers.
• The exact system I use to get found, get booked, and get paid — before, on, and after every stage.
• And what separates speakers who get paid consistently from speakers who are still speaking for free.

A little about me, for those just joining us. I've been speaking professionally since 1999 — back before social media was even a tool speakers used.

I went from a NASA research scientist sending cold emails that nobody replied to, to an international keynote speaker paid to speak in all fifty states and several countries.

Since then, I've helped over three thousand speakers build this exact system into their own businesses.

If you want to build this step by step — your website, your marketing, your keynote, your offers — I teach the entire thing live, over five nights, inside the Booked and Paid Speaker Challenge.

You can join at monetizeyou dot co slash challenge. I'll also drop that link in the show notes.

Alright, let's get into it.

In the next few minutes, we'll cover why most speakers never get paid, how to actually get found by event planners, what makes one say yes and book you, how to monetize before, on, and after the stage, and how the whole system connects — so by the end of this episode you'll know exactly how to start building it for yourself.

Let's go.