Grant Baldwin and Phil Jones hosted a Facebook Live to talk about the true confessions of a professional speaker dealing with the impact of COVID-19.

During the live stream, Grant and Phil discuss:

• Rescheduling or canceling 27 events
• Where do new event scheduling start coming from
• How does the market react and build on the other side of this crisis
• Using new technology and trying new things
• Taking advantage of the opportunity to serve past clients
• Finding joy in the gift of time to refocus priorities and spend time with family
• Leaning into new revenue streams and discovering new ways to distribute value
• Navigating schedule conflicts for Fall events with postponed Spring events
• Creating custom programming for events now instead of rescheduling
• Helping clients address the needs and fears of their customers
• Showing up in the moment and modeling generosity
• Maintaining the integrity of your speaking business long-term
• What speakers have in common with 5-star Michelin chefs
• Building a speaking business so that you’re not living month-to-month
• How speakers are actually running two different businesses simultaneously
• Discovering gifts and opportunity amidst the crisis
• What you have permission to do now that you didn’t before
• Inventing a new business model the creates recurring income
• The Cupcake analogy
• Redefining what success looks like now and thinking about your business in a different way
• Why you need “resume points” on the other side of this crisis
• And more

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