Hi, my name's Lovey Ajaey, and I'm a writer,

a speaker, professional troublemaker.

I wrote a book called, I'm judging you,

the do better manual that hit the New York Times best-selling list.

Nine years ago, I got laid off for my full-time job

as a marketing coordinator.

I was working for a nonprofit that taught other nonprofits

how to use social media.

Budget cuts did me in, drop kick me through the goalposts of life,

and I panicked because I was the guy who knew she needed her

biwoolily paychecks to keep my shoe habit going.

That's important to me.

But what I didn't realize was they did me

the biggest favor ever by letting me go,

I had to sink or swim.

But get this.

A month later, they hired me to do a Twitter strategy training

at a mini-conference that we're having.

And that, my friends, was my first ever paid-speaking engagement.

That one thing was the beginning of a career

that has taken me all over the world in the last decade.

It's gotten me on stages and in rooms with billionaires.

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