Episode 33

Get Booked to Speak Without Calling, or Begging

The first time you tried to book yourself to speak, you lost a whole Saturday to it. Hunting for events, decoding submission guidelines, rewriting your pitch for each one, tracking deadlines, and then mostly silence. You knew there were people on a stage every few weeks who couldn't possibly be doing this by hand. They weren't. They had someone running the pipeline.

In this episode, I share the eight-hour Saturday that taught me speaking has a backend grind nobody talks about, why a stage is one of the highest-leverage rooms a service business can be in, and how a speaker employee runs the entire pipeline, finding events, drafting pitches in your voice, and handling the follow-up, while you keep the part that's actually yours: the relationship and the close.

In this episode:
- Why a stage builds trust faster than almost any other marketing
- The administrative grind that keeps qualified experts off stages
- What a speaker employee finds, drafts, tracks, and follows up on
- The line between the machine's grind and the human's connection
- Why booking has always favored people with representation, and how that changes

Who this is for: Service-based business owners and experts who know speaking would grow their business but never have time to chase the stages.

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Makeda Boehm

Makeda Boehm is a Strategic AI Advisor, keynote speaker, and educator who has closed nearly $10M in enterprise tech sales and earned seven figures doing it. She holds a BA in African American Studies and Sociology, an MBA in Organizational Management, and is completing an MS in Data Science. She teaches service-based business owners around the world how to use AI, automations, and agents to create more money, time, and options. She runs a mortgage-free 10-acre homestead in Tennessee, homeschools two kids, and has maintained a daily AI practice for over 500 days. seedandsociety.com