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What is up, my friend? Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. My name is Grant Baldwin. Good to have you here with us today. We are in episode 38 talking all about the exciting topic of business structure for speakers. This is a question I get a lot from speakers. So we're going to get into this here in just a minute. But before we do, let me quickly remind you, we're doing 30 episodes and 30 days this month. So we'd love for you to leave us your question. You can do that over at the speakerlab.com. Go to the Ask Grant tab and leave us your preferably voicemail question. We'd love to hear from you. Also, if you haven't already, be sure and subscribe to the show. That way, you never miss an episode. I know sometimes it's hard to keep up if we're doing one every single day, but we try to keep these episodes short and concise. And then also, you may just want to subscribe to them so you can download a bunch and just go like Netflix binge style on that. How many of you, I'm just curious, how many of you, do you go

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the best business structure for your speaking business so let's get into it let's talk about it

all right today's question comes from kevin pain asked the question, how did you set up your

speaking business as a legit business, i.e. an LLC or sole proprietor, and how did you go about

doing that? All right, thanks for the question, Kevin. This is actually a question, oddly enough,

I get a lot. And it's an important one, but to be honest with you, I think it can be a bit of a distraction for people. Because I think a lot of

people who are just getting started in business speaking or otherwise, I think a lot of times

we're more interested in playing business than actually doing anything with our business.

Meaning, like, it's fun to set up a business

and it's fun to, you know, think those things or think of like your business name and getting

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