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What is up, my friends? Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. My name is Grant Baldwin. Good to have you here

with us today. Hope you doing well. Hope Life is treating you good. Today we got a great episode for you. We got another listener Q&A. We're doing a lot of these. In fact, if you haven't already noticed, or if you're not up to speed, we are doing the month of April. We are doing 30 episodes in 30 days. So one episode every single day. A lot of these are

listener Q&A's, listener questions, my answer. We're having a lot of fun with this. So I want to,

if you have a question, make sure that you leave us a voicemail over at the speakerlab.com.

Again, the speakerlab.com. Also, if you haven't already, we've got a free Facebook group that is packed with speakers. We've got over 3,500 speakers in there right now as of this recording. And so I would love for you to be a part of that. It's a place for you to connect with other speakers to get your questions answered. Anything that you're just stuck on in your speaking business, if you just want some like moral support just to know that, hey, you're doing good. That's the place to be. So if you're interested in that, you can go over to the

speakerlab group.com. The speakerlab group.com. Again, it's a free private Facebook group.

You definitely wants to check out the speakerlab group.com. All right, today's question comes from

Maya and talking about taxes. Oh, the joys of

taxes. The joys of owning your own business and having to pay taxes. So let's get into it.

Here is today's question. All right, today's question comes from Maya Akiva, who asked the question,

how do you pay taxes on your fee? If they pay you $4,000 and you

use that money also for travel, what do you report to the IRS as earning? Do you report the full

$4,000? Thanks. All right, great question here from Maya. Now, on an upcoming episode of the

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