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What's up, my friends? Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. We are glad you are here today.

We've got another great guest, another great podcast episode and interview for you. Today we're going to be talking with my friend Connie Albers. And Connie is someone who's been in the speaking business for many, many years in a variety of different capacities. She's worked with Disney. Her story with Disney is actually really cool. I think you're going to enjoy that. But then also she's worked with the homeschool market,

with nonprofits in the church world. And so we dig into several different pieces here with her.

So we talk through, especially about the nonprofit market and the church market, and just debunking

the myth that nonprofits don't have money to pay for speakers. So we talk about that right out of

the gate here at the beginning. We also talk about determining which nonprofits have money and which don't. We talk about opportunities that exist in nonprofit and faith-based markets and how you actually find those. So a lot of great stuff here for us to dig into. So let's not waste any time. Let's jump right into it. Here's my conversation with Miss Connie Albers. Enjoy. I would tell my friends Graham, here. Hey, today I'm hanging out with my friend,

Connie Albers, who has got some wisdom to share from the speaking industry, especially as we're

going to be talking today about nonprofits and faith-based. I know a lot of people are interested

in speaking in that world. So we will be digging into that today with Ms. Connie. So,

Connie, how are you today? I am doing great, Grant. Thanks for having me on the show today. I look forward to talking with you. You bet. We'll appreciate you hanging out with us. So let's start with this. I always like to hear like give us kind of a snapshot of who Connie is and your experience in the speaking world. Well, you know, I began speaking. I didn't realize it was

public speaking in the second grade. Everybody has a story where they began. And mine began in the

second grade when I got my report card and how most kids look at the grades. I don't. I turned over

to look at the comments. What did the teacher have to say as if she was evaluating my social

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