CHAPTER 3

Aspiring to Speak: Newbies to Celebrity Rock Stars

In This Chapter

• Why combined speaking and training yields more income

• Rolling with it when shift happens

• The different types of speaker profiles

• Seven speaker levels and their fees

Public speaking has been around for as long as there have been people with something to say. Throughout history, people with a passion to share their message have done just that in every way imaginable—from telling stories to members of their tribe to standing on a soapbox to getting onstage in front of thousands. Before writing as we know it existed, practically every culture used some form of oral tradition to pass down history or wisdom from generation to generation. These folks had a message ...

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