Heather Monahan

And I'm getting my first couple pieces of business from them, which I'm so proud of, so grateful for.

And I'm thinking about that conversation I had with that gentleman that when you really start making it, that's when you won't be so desperate for wanting the agent anymore.

And they're just going to start showing up.

And I'm starting, I'm not there yet, but I'm starting to see how that's playing out.

And as my business has picked up,

because of my LinkedIn, because of all the content I'm creating and putting myself out there and talking about my speaking business and getting recognized, obviously, by real leaders twice was a huge deal, right?

So that was in good company and headlining the event expo with Dame and John was huge.

I've had a couple of really surreal, big moments along the way that I understand how it's happening, but nonetheless-

It's surreal.

This is not the way I ever expected it to happen.

By the way, I thought all this stuff would have happened back in 2019, the latest 2020, but no one could have predicted the things that were gonna happen.

And the reason I share that story with you is just because you have a big goal and it doesn't happen for a while, in this case, four years,

right, doesn't mean it's not going to happen.

Things don't always happen in the timeline we think they should.

They happen as they're meant to be.

I can tell you this.

I am so much of a better, more powerful, deliberate, intentional, successful speaker today than I was in 2018.

And maybe that's why I didn't get booked back then.

Maybe that's a gift because imagine if the biggest speaking bureaus in the world started booking me back then.

And I wasn't as good as I had the potential to be.