Welcome to the Jasmine star show. I have to start here by saying I thought I had a good

idea and the guests were about to chat with today just made the idea a thousand times

better. You are going to get a behind the scenes look of what is coming. So I want to start

this conversation by outright stating a big change that's going on in my life and in

my business. I'm changing the way that I am approaching paid speaking events. So I

am changing the content, my delivery. I am working on signing with a speaking agent.

And I've been sharing tidbits of this. But finally I kind of feel like I'm having a

W. Tons bomb coming and coming out party. So before we understand like what's changed,

when we talk about how things worked through 2022, well, people would come to me and they

would submit a form, they would reach out and they would say, Hey, we want you to talk

about this based on what they had seen online. So people were asking me to teach about

what they had seen on all my social profiles. But only now did I realize that I was reactive.

So I was reacting to an invitation. So I was talking about a lot of different topics.

And basically I was a Jill of all trades. But was I really excited about every topic that

I was being invited to speak about? And the answer is not really because I wanted to know

and speak about from a brand perspective, what was I known for? What was that? Oh, you're

talking about X. She's the best at X or she knows the most about X. She's very compelling

about X. So how it worked in the past was I was reactive. And now moving forward as a

speaker, teacher, educator, I'm going to be proactive. Now the way that you can figure

out how you can be you're listening right now and you want to know, how can I be proactive

when it's not just speaking on stages, but when I'm putting forth my brand online or if

I want to write a book or if I want to be a speaker, if I want to be coach, if I want

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