1) Overview of Kent's current speaking business
2) Kent's story — early life
- At-risk child
- Positive impact of hearing a speaker in high school
- Positive impact of educators
- College Success
3) Kent's first career track
- Working with youth via non-profit organizations and coaching
- Eventually, Kent became the Executive Director of a national youth association
- Opportunities to speak "on the side" continued to grow
4) Two insights from first career track
- Speaking opportunity grew only because Kent had a PLATFORM — he had no clue how to market his speaking business
- Part of his job as an Executive Director was to hire speakers — this gave Kent a front-row seat to what worked and DID NOT work when it comes to booking paid speaking engagements
5) Kent's speaking track
- 2005 — launched a career coaching business as a side hustle
- 2008 — transitioned to being employed very PT and primarily working on his career coaching business
- 2009 — full-time business owner and speaking was added to the mix of the services Kent provided
- Insight: Kent spent the four years from 2005 to 2009 learning how to market his speaking services
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