“I did not see this being a full time gig at the time. I just thought I was going to be speaking, like, at churches or something, right? So I thought I was speaking at women events, women’s conferences and things like that while doing my nine to five, maybe on the weekends.”
This week, Grant Baldwin sat down with former TSL Student, Amy Pechacek, to dig into her speaking journey, how she’s “planned to win”, what her business looks like today, and the advice she would give other speakers looking to get to the next level.
“I came into this process thinking I was going to be an inspirational speaker…But people were coming to me, asking me to speak to their teams, and I thought, well, if people trust me in the realm of corporate american leadership and business development and sales and things like that, then I am a firm believer of people seeing you sometimes what you don’t see in yourself.”
In this episode, Amy and Grant get into:
- 05:18 How Amy transitioned from part-time to full-time as a speaker
- 07:20 Amy’s journey to exploring how to make speaking a business.
- 10:13 How Amy transitioned from motivational speaking to corporate training.
- 13:44 Leveraging both corporate training and inspirational speaking.
- 19:27 Amy’s take on the desires that unite people and create passion and meaning in our lives.
- 21:22 How Amy fosters connection with people in workshops.
- 24:21 Amy’s next steps for growing her business.
- 26:50 How Amy’s thought about narrowing direction in her business.
- 31:12 Amy’s take on The Speaker Lab program.
