Hey, Fran, Graham Baldwin here.

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Graham Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. So good to have you here with us today.

I hope you're doing well. Really do appreciate

you being a part of the show. Hey, we've got a great guest for you today. This is a speaker wizard that's been in the business for many years and has definitely learned a lot. It has a lot to share with us today. And she's the sassy as all get out. So I think you're really going to enjoy this guest on today's show. Before we get to that, again, let me remind you. If you haven't already, we'd love for you to come hang out with us over at freespeakerworkshop.com, free speakerworkshop.com. Every single week, we do a free live training teaching you all about how to find and book paid speaking engagements. So, as you may know, we actually teach a system called the Speaker Success Roadmap, which is a five-step roadmap to teach you how exactly to find and book paid speaking engagements. So we walk through

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All right. So today we're talking with my friend Neen James, N-E-E-N-James from Neenjames.com.

Neen is just a firecracker of a human and a firecracker of a speaker for sure.

So this is a great conversation where we talk about being comfortable in your own skin, using what may be perceived as a weakness by others as strengths, meaning that you'll hear in a second, Nene has kind of a unique what she would call a cartoonish voice. She's four foot 10 and a half, I believe is what she said, four foot 10 and half. So she's a little short and stature there, but just again, a firecracker on stage. And so we talk about, you know, when you're getting started, if you feel like maybe, like in her case, she felt like, you know, am I, is my voice sounds different or am I not tall enough to be a speaker? You know, do I not have what it takes? we talked that through. Let's talk about how to set yourself apart as the speaker in a crowded, busy market.

So as she was kind of figuring out what she wanted to speak about, it was kind of a popular topic. So how do you kind of work around that situation? We talk about how she discovered what to speak about, made the pivot actually to a slightly different topic as well. We talk about the women's market and converts and industries,

the pros and cons and that space. I have a lot of female speakers that reach out and say, hey, I want to speak to other women. I want to talk in the women's market and industry. Is there even an industry for that? And so Neen gives some great insights on that. Talk about the international speaking market. Neen's done a lot of speaking internationally. She's from Australia. She lives in the U.S. now. So she has a couple of insights to share there.

Plus, she's been actively involved in the NSA, the National Speakers Association. So she gives some thoughts on the NSA as well. So just a great, wide-ranging conversation. I think you're really going to enjoy this. Neen's just a lot of fun, just a great gal. And so let's get right into it. Here's my conversation with my friend

Neen James. Enjoy. What is up, my friend? Graham Baldwin here. Welcome back to the Speaker

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