As the Founder of Get Speaking Gigs Now and The OC Speakers Network, Leisa Reid coaches professionals who want to monetize their speaking efforts. As a speaker herself, Leisa has booked and delivered over 500 speaking engagements.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I thought I knew what people needed but it took me awhile to bridge the gap between what I knew they needed and what they thought they needed and wanted. And that comes to me in terms of how do I package things? How long do people coach with me? What is it called? What is the price point? what’s the order in which I teach things? How do I teach things? Those were difficulties that I definitely had because it was my own business, it was this unique thing, there wasn’t something I could copy to say well this has already worked ”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine Book by Mike MichalowiczFavourite Quote:
- “someday is not a day on the calendar”
- “you didn’t come this far to just get this far”
Recommended Online Resources:
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Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“This comes down to understanding your mission and why you think you are here… You’ve got to dream. You’ve got a skill, a gift, expertise, something that you have been called to offer and I think that’s amazing”…[Listen for More]
More About Leisa Reid:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle
Other Quotes From the Chat with Leisa Reid:
- “For me the biggest learning is asking for support and asking for help. I have this tendency to have this do it myself, I can do it all, I can do everything, I need to do everything, it’s all on me… When I realise and I have a moment of clarity like oh you know what I don’t need to do this all by myself. in fact, I could ask for support. I bet there somebody else who knows how to do this really easily or maybe they have a trick or a system or a software that could be really, really helpful. And I will literally have that conversation whether out loud or internally and all of a sudden everything changes”
- “I think determination, consistency and kindness are some of the secrets. I think if you treat people with kindness… It doesn’t even mean you need to like them or agree with them but being kind is really underrated. And my kindness has definitely been a huge factor in my success. And if you are kind but you don’t actually do anything and you are not actionable… creating action… then of course it’s kind of in a vacuum. So, there’s this action that needs to happen and for me that comes in the form of determination, consistency, persistency. I call it a politely persistent”
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