As a four-time business owner, Dr. Stevie Dawn Carter has created multi-million dollar success in business, fine art, dance, and now speaking/coaching. She is a highly sought-after speaker and coach because of her innate ability to energize others to unleash their insurmountable success. Join us as Dr. Stevie gives us a “crash course” in public speaking and we discuss how to turn speaking into profit. You can find Dr. Stevie at https://drsteviedawn.com/. Full Focus Entrepreneur: The Podcast is hosted by Elizabeth Tollis.

Some Note-worthy Times:

1:03 Who is Dr. Stevie?

2:14 How Dr. Stevie got into the world of speaking

3:31 How the power of speaking can change your business

7:20 Crash Course in Public Speaking

7:38 The first thing you need to do in Public Speaking

9:24 Your Market

12:03 In-person Speaking vs. Virtual Speaking

15:53 How to capture leads when speaking

20:20 Why it’s important to have a process

25:05 How social media fits in

32:03 Things to keep in mind when you start speaking

35:40 How to transition into getting paid to speak

42:42 How Dr. Stevie focuses

Some Time-worthy Notes:

As a small business coach and consultant, I have built my business on the idea that entrepreneurship impacts communities and the world. I work with small business owners to increase their impact, build businesses for greater purposes, hone their focus, and sort out what exactly they should be focusing on. With the members in my Full Focus Entrepreneur Program, I dive into a different key area of entrepreneurship each month to bring them EXACTLY and ONLY what they need to succeed in that area. The Podcast is a chance for me to bring in an outside expert on that topic.

If you want to hear, watch, read, and learn more about Entrepreneurship, Focus, and Living a life of impact I invite you to check out Full Focus Entrepreneur where I coach small business owners to be more effective, more organized, more profitable, and more impactful. Sign up for The Full Focus App to receive access to all my free resources.

If you are interested in listening to more of me talking to myself and others please check out The Emerald Office where all the episodes of all of my podcasts can be found.

A special thank you to Eric Tollis who made this sweet backtrack and to Maria Carias for the beautiful art that graces this Podcast. All of Maria's art can be found on her Instagram. She kinda rocks right?

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