Hey, Fran, Graham Baldwin here.

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Hey, what's up, Frank? Graham Baldwin here. Welcome back to the Speakelab podcast. So good to have you here with us today on episode 318. We've got another great show for you today as we are continuing our awesome series highlighting student success stories from here within the speaker lab. Now, so far, we've heard from five incredible students. And if you've missed any of those, make sure you go back. You check them out. But for now, don't go anywhere today. I'm joined by my friend Jay Israel Green for a really insightful

conversation on how to speak on cultural diversity and inclusion. So imagine you're a business

owner, which as a speaker you are, who do you call if you're dealing with low employee

engagement or stalled sales or poor leadership? you call Israel. And through his workshops,

consulting, he helps companies develop their leaders and transform their cultures. So on today's

episode, we're going to talk about when and why he made the jump to a speaking career and how

booked and paid to speak network and speakers he's met within the program has actually generated

over $20,000 for him in his business so far. This is a really good conversation. I know you're going to get a lot out of it. So let's jump in. Here's my conversation with Jay Israel Green. Enjoy. Hey, it's our friends. Graham Baldwin here. Welcome back to the Speak of Lab podcast. Today we are joined by a student from Booked and Paid to Speak here at the Speak

Lab, Mr. Israel, Green, Israel, thanks for joining us today. How's your day going? Thanks for having me. I appreciate it. Day is great, above ground. So you're making it. We're recording this still in the thick of this weird world that we're out. I don't know how long we're going to be saying that, but I feel like it's been a minute I think it may continue to be a minute So first of all, we're going to go back in just a second and talk about your story and journey, but can you give us some type of snapshot today as it stands? Again, I know we're in the think of COVID, so all things are up in the air at the moment. But who do you speak to? What do you speak about how much speaking are you doing like how does speaking fit into your world right now? Yep, absolutely. So I am still speaking, primarily virtually, obviously. But I do more

so workshops in companies and more consulting than companies as of right now. So I speak to

primarily tech companies. My big focus is on leadership development and diversity, equity,

and inclusion in organizations. So I come into companies that are struggling with company

culture issues and they manifest its ways itself in many ways, such as low employee engagement,

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