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Hi and welcome back to Creating Confidence. I'm so glad you're here with me. I appreciate you so much. I have a major announcement this week. I'm so excited to share that I finally

landed my first TEDx talk and it's such a big deal it's one of those things that as a speaker as

an entrepreneur it's one of those boxes I really wanted to check you know we all

have these different goals in our mind, you know, big picture things that

we're going after.

The TEDx talk to me was one of those things that I, it was out there, I wanted it, and I really worked hard to get it.

So let me tell you what I did that worked and didn't work,

so that hopefully you can glean some insights from it.

But for, this has been a goal of mine probably for a year and

a half I would say ever since I wrote my book I really I knew that getting a

TEDx stage could really help spread my message and I just attacked it the same way that I

attack everything which is sheer volume right just sending out as many pitches as

possible this was not the right approach. And the way that I did it was

I set a Google alert, which whenever I'm going after something I always, if I have a target in mind,

I put a Google alert on it so that I can find out what's going on.

I can find out about opportunities.

And so I set the Google alert and I just kept sending the same pitch to probably a hundred different TEDx locations and what I talked about in my pitch was me.

I talked about how I'm a great speaker. I talked about all the stages I've taken. Me, me, me, me, me. Yeah, not the right approach.

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