The Business of Public Speaking for 2023: Part 1 - What am I missing?
The Business of Public Speaking for 2023: Part 1 - What am I missing?
?Many Speakers ask me this.?What am I missing?
An excerpt from my Mindset Mastery book ‘The Twelve Powers We Hold Within’ will explain the dynamics and the answer to that question.
When I first started getting paid for speaking, no one was there to show me how to get started? I was scared to make mistakes, to approach event planners, I did not know how much to charge, who to contact, how to find them, what if they say no etc. etc. etc.
?Lately with the new normal, I am speaking to so many new speakers, seasoned speakers, experienced speakers and they all have the same fears. Where is this industry going, are there really virtual events that pay speakers, how do I find them, do I need an agent, do I need to join a Speakers Bureau? So many uncertainties and much confusion. It saddened me to a point that brings me to share this excerpt with you.
?Between the Trapeze Swings - (1998)
“Sometimes I feel that my life is a series of trapeze swings. I'm either hanging on to a trapeze bar swinging along or, for a few moments in my life, I'm hurtling across space in between trapeze bars.
Most of the time, I spend my life hanging on for dear life to my trapeze-bar-of-the-moment. It carries me along a certain steady rate of swing, and I have the feeling that I'm in control of my life. I know most of the right questions and even some of the right answers. But once in a while, as I'm merrily (or not so merrily) swinging along, I look ahead of me into the distance and what do I see? I see another trapeze bar swinging towards me. It's empty, and I know in that place in me that knows, that this new trapeze bar has my name on it. It is my next step, my growth, my aliveness going to get me. In my heart-of-hearts I know that for me to grow, I must release my grip on the present, well-known bar to move to the new one.
Each time it happens to me, I hope (no, I pray) that I won't have to grab the new one. But in my knowing place I know that I must totally release my grasp on my old bar and for some moment in time I must hurtle across space before I can grab onto the new bar. Each time I am filled with terror. It doesn't matter that in all my previous hurtles across the void of unknowing I have always made it. Each time I'm afraid I will miss; that I will be crushed on unseen rocks in the bottomless chasm between the bars. But I do it anyway. Perhaps this is the essence of what the mystics call the faith experience. No guarantees, no net, no insurance policy, but you do it anyway because somehow, to keep hanging on to the old bar is no longer on the list of alternatives. And so, for an eternity that can last a microsecond or a thousand lifetimes, I soar across the dark void of “the past is gone, the future is not yet here”. It's called a transition. I have come to believe that it is the only place that real change occurs. I mean real change, not the pseudo-change that only lasts until the next time my old buttons get punched.
I have noticed that in our culture, this transition zone is looked upon as a 'no-thing', a no-place between places. Sure, the old trapeze-bar was real and that new on coming towards me, I hope that's real too. But that void in between? That's just scary, confusing, disorienting 'nowhere' that must be gotten through as fast and as unconsciously as possible. What a waste! I have a sneaking suspicion that the transition zone is the real thing and the bars are illusions we dream up to avoid the void where the real change, the real growth occurs for us. Whether or not my hunch is true, it remains that the transition zones in our lives are in incredibly rich places. They should be honored, even savored. Yes, with all the pain and fear and feelings of being out-of-control that can (but not necessarily) accompany transitions, they are still the most alive, most growth-filled, passionate, expansive moments in our lives.
And so, transformation of fear may have nothing to do with making fear go away, but rather with giving ourselves permission to 'hang-out' in the transition between trapeze bars. Transforming our need to grab that new bar, any bar, is allowing ourselves to dwell in the only place where change really happens. It can be terrifying. It can also be enlightening, in the true sense of the word. Hurtling through the void, we just may learn how to fly.”
?You see after so many years in this industry and helping hundreds of Speakers get their Business together and saving them at least Ten years of learning and avoiding the empty unknown space, I have been their guarantee, their net and their insurance policy to make sure they only have to grab on to the next swing and do the work.
?In December 2019 I released a book called ‘Public Speakers You’re Not All That – 12 Reasons Why Event Planners Won’t Hire You’ because I believe the speakers, coaches, authors and experts have lost faith, that space between the bars or the industry of Public Speaking and Events. I interviewed over 3400 Event Planners that pay speakers for this book and dedicated five years to do that. So, I speak from experience.
?The industry of Public Speaking, Meetings and Events is not Gone, it has Shifted!?There are 64,000 Events a Day in America, Canada and the US that Pay Speakers yet most Speakers Make less than $100k a year.
?So what are you Missing?
As a Public Speaker, it is not enough to have a Bio and or a Speaker Sheet, because they are never in the way event planners what to see them and therefore you show up as 'not knowing what you're doing' and event planners won't pay you.
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Orly Amor, International Public Speaker, Bestselling Author,?Business Coach for Public Speakers, and Founder of the Speakers ANNEX
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