Becoming a Speaker as an Author with Jess Ekstrom {ep. 125}
May 1, 2024
Do you want to build a career as a speaker? Jess Ekstrom shares insightful tips for authors who are aspiring speakers, highlighting the importance of focusing on the value you bring to your audience over just your personal story.
In this episode, Alexa Bigwarfe and Jess Ekstrom dig into what it takes to create a fruitful speaking career. These strategies are aimed at empowering women writing nonfiction books who want to take the stage to make a bigger impact.
Key Takeaways
Key Takeaways
- How to leverage connections as starting points for speaking engagements
- Negotiating for assets beyond speaking fees, such as professional event photos, testimonials, and referrals
- Essential steps to kick start a successful and impactful speaking career.
- How to empower yourself to seize public speaking opportunities and break barriers in the professional world
- Crafting a Captivating Keynote Speech: Learn the secrets to building a keynote speech that captivates and inspires audiences
- How to structure your talks and her formula to deliver concise, impactful messages
- The Mic Drop Workshop: A comprehensive program to learn everything you need to know to build your speaking career
- Visit here to learn more about her upcoming FREE challenge and the full program. https://womeninpublishingsummit.com/micdrop
Jess Ekstrom is the founder of Headbands of Hope and Mic Drop Workshop, investor in women, 2x best-selling author, Forbes Top Rated Speaker and new mom. Her first brush with success was selling all of her toys on eBay when she was twelve. Since then, Jess and her companies have been featured on Today and Good Morning America and in Seventeen, Vanity Fair, Forbes, and People. More importantly, they've helped millions of women and girls around the world. She’s the bestselling author of Chasing the Bright Side and Create Your Bright Ideas. Her hobbies include writing, hiking, board games with her husband, playing peekaboo with her baby, and searching for the best breakfast burrito in America.
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