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Hey, what's up, my friend? Grant Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. We are so glad

you're here.

Really do appreciate you joining us.

And, you know what? I hear from people regularly. He say, hey, I listen to the podcast on a weekly basis or people who said, hey, I just discovered you. I've gone back and I've been binge listening, just like, I don't know, Netflix-style binge, going through episode after episode. And so I just want you to know how much I appreciate you listening and our team appreciate you tuning in.

We put a lot of work into these episodes. going through episode after episode. And so I just want you to know how much I appreciate you listening

and our team appreciate you tuning in. We put a lot of work into these episodes and I want to

make sure that we're helping supporting, providing value for speakers like yourself. We know that we

have new speakers and veteran speakers and everything in between all different industries and

literally speakers from all over the world. So wherever you are, wherever you're at in your

career, we really do appreciate you being here. Really do appreciate you joining us. So let's get right into it. All right. So today we, once again, for week three, we're going to be having our co-host, Ms. Melanie Diesel back joining us once again. Melanie is a coach with the speaker. Does a lot of speaking on her own as well. Very, very successful speaker and just a very, very knowledgeable. And so we have a lot that we get in today. Today, we are talking all about systems, system systems. Now, this is the type of thing that can be boring, but it's also the type of thing that is extremely important for speakers. And speakers tend to say, hey, I like being a speaker and I don't really care about the system stuff or I don't care about the business stuff. I just want to speak. And listen, I totally get that. I know that you just want to speak, but you got to pay attention to the systems. You got to have systems in place that make your job and make the client's role and then their work with you much, much simpler and smoother. So ultimately, just being a speaker, it means a lot of paperwork. It means a lot of logistics. And so you, you want to have systems to track all the moving parts, especially if you're doing this on your own. Now, we may touch on, you know, having a VA that can help you, but ultimately you still need systems in place. The worst thing is to find out that you should have been tracking something and that you

didn't.

So we're going to talk about outreach and contracts and invoices and travel and calendars and

expenses and income and all of that different stuff.

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