Heather Monahan

If you are not active on LinkedIn, get active.

Whether you're B2B or B2C, that is the place to be.

Pull business towards you so you don't always have to chase after it.

So the majority of my business was coming from my LinkedIn feed and I was getting booked a lot and booked with amazing companies, Amazon, Google, you know, so many crazy, huge companies and starting to enjoy some success.

I was named top 40 keynote speaker in 2020.

I was named top 50 overall keynote speaker 2022.

Shout out, real leaders.

Okay, so things were getting better, but I still, in the back of my mind, right, I was still kind of bummed that, wow, you know, those really elite speaker bureaus, they just had never booked me.

Now, I remember when I first started out in the speaking business, someone who had 30 years experience said to me, here's the best thing I can teach you, Heather.

You'll want a speaker agent.

You're going to want a speaker bureau until the day you've hit it.

You've made it, right?

And everybody knows you.

And then you won't want a speaker bureau.

You won't want an agent because everyone and every opportunity will be coming to you.

And it was frustrating to hear that at the time, right?

Because when you need an agent is when you haven't hit it yet.

You haven't made it yet.

That's when you need someone pitching and selling you, someone who knows how good you are, that cares, that says, no, this woman might not be known like Oprah Winfrey, but she's

She can have a massive impact on your audience and you need to see her.