Today's caller is a coach who'd like to do more paid speaking. Where can she find these opportunities?

That's what we're looking at today. Welcome to Side Usual School. My name is Chris Gellipo.

We have an amazing community of listeners all over the world doing all sorts of interesting things.

Many of whom are trying to increase their income.

They're not necessarily trying to be full-time entrepreneurs, although many of them are or many of them aspire to be.

But a lot of people are happy with their job. They just want to, as I said, make extra money, create more security for themselves, pursue a creative passion.

Maybe just do something kind of different.

And you'll hear about some of those goals or ideas, values from today's caller, who, as I said, is trying to make a bit of a transition.

So when it comes to paid speaking, like a lot of things from the outside, it seems like a mysterious process.

But there is, in fact, a process to it that can be decoded like anything else.

So let's see if we can help her, as well as anyone else who likes the idea of getting paid to give a talk.

Detailed question, and my answer coming right up.

Hi, Chris. This is Cheryl from Austin, and I'm a longtime listener, first-time question-asker.

After years of working as a coach, I'm ready to take my message to the stage.

I recently spoke at a woman's leadership event at my church, and I got to stand in a novation.

So I like to do this more often, and maybe even for money.

How can I land paid speaking gigs? Thanks for any advice you can share with me.

Hey Cheryl, congratulations. Good job on the speech and the standing ovation you received.

So a few steps here. A couple things. You want to get a video.

Hopefully you had a video made of that talk. Hopefully there's some other talks you can give, even if they're for free.

You want to make a highlights reel from that video. It just kind of shows you an action, basically.

You want to create a few titles and descriptions of proposed talks.

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