158: So You Want to Be a Speaker? with Li Hayes

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today’s show is a fascinating glimpse behind the scenes of speaking and how to get booked for speaking engagements. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We hope you enjoy listening to this fun and insightful conversation with Li Hayes. Also, don’t miss her explanation of the differences between talking, teaching, and speaking!</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Li Hayes puts professional speakers on more stages! She is founder of Go Leeward Speaker Management, working with inspirational and impactful speakers like Mike Michalowicz, Emmanuel Kelly and Jeff Hoffman.  </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Through her Path to the Mainstage speaker program, she also helps emerging speakers by sharing the behind-the-curtains secrets of professional speakers and event planners that are essential to speaker success. Most speakers don't fail because of their content or on stage talent, they fail to be successful because they don't understand the business of speaking. With a long history in business working with Corporations, Associations, NPFs and more, Li Hayes gives emerging speakers, who want to accelerate their businesses, the skills and tactical path to getting themselves on the mainstage.</span></p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential Production in collaboration with Small Business Consulting Group.</span></em></p> <p><strong>Show Highlights:</strong></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Li explains the impact that being surrounded by thought leaders has had on her.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">The number one thing that event planners are looking for.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Li shares tips on how to “build your celebrity”.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Understanding the needs of an event planner is very different than understanding the needs of your top clients.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">How these tenets relate to Pumpki