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I have a major

announcement this week. I'm so excited to share that I finally landed my first TEDx talk and

It's such a big deal. It's one of those things that as a speaker as an entrepreneur

It's one of those boxes. I really wanted to check, you know

We all have these different goals in our mind

You know big picture of things that we're going after the TEDx talk to me was one of those things that I

It was out there. I wanted it and I really worked hard to get it

So let me tell you what I did that worked and didn't work so they hopefully you can

Glean some insights from it

But for this has been a goal of mine probably for a year and a half I would say

Ever since I wrote my book I really I knew that getting a TEDx stage could really help spread my message and

I just attacked the same way that I attack everything which is sheer volume right just sending out as many pitches as possible

This was not the right approach

And the way that I did it was I set a Google alert which whenever I'm going after something

I always if I have a target in mind I put a Google alert on it so that I can find out what's going on

I can find out about opportunities and so I set the Google alert and I just kept sending the same pitch to

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