Speaker 1: Hi, everybody, Welcome to the Best Ever You Show. I'm
Speaker 1: Elizabeth here with doctor Katie Eastman, my co host, and
Speaker 1: our guest Bobby Carlton.
Speaker 2: Bobby, Hi, how are you Hi? Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Katie, how are you?
Speaker 3: Good to see you, Bobby, good to be here.
Speaker 1: Good to be here. Yeah. Katie and I talk like
Speaker 1: every minute of the day. So good to see you again, Katie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, good to talk to you.
Speaker 1: You know, we are new to Riverside FM here and
Speaker 1: we're I'm having a little bit of a giggle before
Speaker 1: we go on here. Katie's like, oh my gosh, my lighting,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh my gosh, I'm I'm much shorter
Speaker 1: than you guys in the video, and Bobby's We're all
Speaker 1: talking about the really good video quality that we have here,
Speaker 1: showing every wrinkle and gray hair and every everything.
Speaker 2: I miss. Zoom touch up my appearance.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's what's missing. Okays, it don't look like this
Speaker 3: on Zoom.
Speaker 2: I know. Zoom is our friend.
Speaker 1: Is our frienduzzy fuzzy filter. Yeah. And my son for Christmas,
Speaker 1: He's like, Mom, I got you a new camera. It's
Speaker 1: like four K and blah blah blah. I'm like, oh great,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. Yeah the twist anyway, yeah, and
Speaker 1: we're all in our home offices. So yeah, so anyway,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's great to have you here, Bobby. What
Speaker 1: a treat it is. Bobby is the founder of Carlton
Speaker 1: PR and Marketing Innovation Innovation. I'm sorry, I want to
Speaker 1: say Innovation Women is what I want to say.
Speaker 2: Katie.
Speaker 1: You're a member and I'm a budding member.
Speaker 2: And I don't want to know all.
Speaker 1: I just want to give the Florida Bobby and have
Speaker 1: it tell us all about her.
Speaker 4: So Innovation Women is actually my third company. I usually
Speaker 4: tell people The day job is I run Carlton PR Marketing.
Speaker 4: That's how I make an actual living. The night job
Speaker 4: for many years was something called Mass Innovation Nights, which
Speaker 4: was a monthly new product launch event driven by social
Speaker 4: media help promote local startups. And then Innovation Women is
Speaker 4: the dream job. It's the dream of getting more women
Speaker 4: on stage at conferences and events because two thirds of
Speaker 4: all conference speakers are men, and it leaves women out
Speaker 4: of all kinds of business and career opportunities.
Speaker 1: It sure does. I just met you at the main
Speaker 1: conference for women actually, and you gave such a fascinating talk.
Speaker 1: Why is it that women aren't part of the speaking
Speaker 1: circuit so much.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of actual systemic reasons for that. One
Speaker 4: of them is speaking begets speaking. The more speaking you do,
Speaker 4: the more speaking you will do, and so older patterns
Speaker 4: kind of perpetuate. And if you're looking at this from
Speaker 4: an event manager perspective, they are asking for brand names,
Speaker 4: recognizable faces, people they know the heads of company is
Speaker 4: the c suite, and you know if you define who
Speaker 4: you want on your stage by the c suite from
Speaker 4: the Fortune five hundred, very small number of women there.
Speaker 4: But there's actually a lot of reasons. Even at the
Speaker 4: smaller company size, more women work part time, women are
Speaker 4: more likely to work for smaller companies, and women are
Speaker 4: still more likely to be responsible for kids and home.
Speaker 4: So if you get asked to speak, you know, it's
Speaker 4: hard to be the morning keynote speaker. If you've got
Speaker 4: to put little Johnny on the bus at eight am.
Speaker 4: It's hard to get away for three days, which is
Speaker 4: what it would take to travel to a conference to
Speaker 4: speak and then come back. If you only work three
Speaker 4: days a week, and if you work for a smaller company,
Speaker 4: that company probably can't afford to send you to a
Speaker 4: conference for three days. There's nobody to backfill for you,
Speaker 4: and they might not have the money for the travel
Speaker 4: and all the expenses.
Speaker 2: Associated with it. So systemic reasons included what do you think, Katie?
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 3: I think I've gotten lots of leads from being part
Speaker 3: of Innovation Women for speaking options that I never would
Speaker 3: have found. I think Innovation Women has a wonderful opportunity
Speaker 3: for authors as well. You've got a section where we
Speaker 3: can identify ourselves as with our books, and there's also
Speaker 3: a place where we can reach out and announce and
Speaker 3: say what's on our minds and what we're thinking about,
Speaker 3: and hey, is there anybody out there who wants to
Speaker 3: talk about that? A lot of options Innovation Women offers,
Speaker 3: and I think just Bobby's brilliant and I think what
Speaker 3: she's done is huge, and I'm grateful, very grateful for
Speaker 3: somebody like me who was just how would I get
Speaker 3: out there?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean Innovation Women has a profile for each speaker,
Speaker 4: a searchable database for event managers to come in and
Speaker 4: search for speed. We also have a database of opportunities
Speaker 4: that our speakers can apply to we have the what
Speaker 4: we call the green Room, which is where all of
Speaker 4: our education is. And we have the Innovation Women Network,
Speaker 4: which is an online community so our speakers can network
Speaker 4: with each other.
Speaker 1: Tell me I'm going to go back. I'm taking you
Speaker 1: back to kindergarten like we do sometimes on this show.
Speaker 1: Were you you the kid who was always piping up
Speaker 1: and loved public speaking?
Speaker 2: No, I'm an introvert. Seriously, I'm an introvert. I think that.
Speaker 4: The skill set for somebody in my position, so longtime
Speaker 4: pr person. I'm really good at research, I'm really good
Speaker 4: at writing. Are these are my superpowers? And public speaking
Speaker 4: was something that I did with other people. I got
Speaker 4: them on stage. I continue to do that. I always
Speaker 4: tell people I'm one of the theater kids, you know,
Speaker 4: like always out there. But my job in the theater
Speaker 4: was I was the spotlight operator.
Speaker 2: I was the.
Speaker 4: Person who was hiding out in the rafters shining a
Speaker 4: spotlight on the star of the show. I was not
Speaker 4: the singing and dancing on the stage kind of person.
Speaker 4: And I discovered when I started my second company that
Speaker 4: I needed to be front and center in order to
Speaker 4: connect with customers and partners.
Speaker 2: I needed to be.
Speaker 4: The theater kid on the stage versus the one in
Speaker 4: the back room in order to move my business forward.
Speaker 4: And the first event that we did for Innovation Nights,
Speaker 4: I was awful. I mean seriously hot mess. And it
Speaker 4: was a social media powered event and everybody had their
Speaker 4: cameras out and video lots of evidence of me being
Speaker 4: a hot mess. So it was a situation where you
Speaker 4: look at those pictures, you look at that video, and
Speaker 4: you say, I get better at this or I die.
Speaker 4: And I chose to get better. Practice really helps.
Speaker 1: Here's a question. How do you get the practice though?
Speaker 1: If nobody puts you on their.
Speaker 4: Stage, Sometimes you got to make your own stage, which
Speaker 4: is really what I did with Innovation Nights. I ran
Speaker 4: Innovation Nights actively for eleven years. We had a monthly event,
Speaker 4: undured in thirty five events, and every single month I
Speaker 4: was the MC, I was the host, and I was
Speaker 4: literally doing the same thing every single month. And as
Speaker 4: I did it again and again and again, I got
Speaker 4: better at it, and pretty soon people were asking me, oh,
Speaker 4: can you come and speak at my event? Really me,
Speaker 4: And then you know, it kind of dawned on me,
Speaker 4: Oh you've gotten better at what you were doing. People
Speaker 4: do want you to speak? I think some of it
Speaker 4: for many people. If you can't create your own stages, yes,
Speaker 4: you can start smaller. One of the recommendations I usually
Speaker 4: give to people is, if you need that dip your
Speaker 4: toe in opportunity, ask a question from the audience that
Speaker 4: the next conference that you're at. If you think about it,
Speaker 4: you're probably talking to the exact same audience that the
Speaker 4: people on stage were speaking to. And you've got a short,
Speaker 4: little punctuation of a moment. You get to identify yourself,
Speaker 4: this is my company, ask my question, and then you
Speaker 4: can sit down and disappear into the audience. But you
Speaker 4: just spoke to the exact same audience that the folks
Speaker 4: on stage spoke to.
Speaker 2: Yeh, it's your turnd way to start.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm Bobby, I'm the theater kid who is on
Speaker 3: stage and more power to have given. Yeah, And you have
Speaker 3: given me a stage that I would not have otherwise had,
Speaker 3: And I'm most grateful for that because I'm one of
Speaker 3: those people who doesn't shy away from being a speaker,
Speaker 3: loves it, eats it up. But just how do I
Speaker 3: get there? So I really encourage people to become part
Speaker 3: of innovation women because it gives you your stage. It
Speaker 3: helps you find your stage where you fit.
Speaker 4: We also do a thing called speaker Friend Fridays, a
Speaker 4: zoom call every week and for a lot of people
Speaker 4: I know they've said that for them, that was their
Speaker 4: first stage, introducing themselves, asking a question, answering someone else's question.
Speaker 4: It's all virtual, it's online, but it's good practice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, great practice. I'm not the theater kid. I'm probably
Speaker 1: more the math and science and writing girl, behind the
Speaker 1: scenes of like never on stage kind of thing. But
Speaker 1: then I had a TV bug when I was about
Speaker 1: eighteen and wanted to be a news anchor and so
Speaker 1: my whole backgrounds in the news anchoring and and so
Speaker 1: forth industry, So TV reporting and anchoring and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: but not theater exactly. But yeah, now it's interesting, so
Speaker 1: different backgrounds. Is there a Is there a certain something
Speaker 1: that you look for in people to be on stage?
Speaker 1: Do you have like if somebody's listening and they're like, Bobby,
Speaker 1: I need you, I've got to track you down because
Speaker 1: I want to be the keynote of blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: or I want to give the commencement address. You know,
Speaker 1: something big that they want to do. Do you have
Speaker 1: a series of things that you're looking for?
Speaker 4: So that's happen and Women is a platform, It's a
Speaker 4: membership group, and what we do is we provide the
Speaker 4: services from Innovation Women's Platform to anybody if people are
Speaker 4: looking for a way to get more visibility, if they're
Speaker 4: looking for a way to build their business, or a
Speaker 4: great opportunity for that. The things that I love, I
Speaker 4: love to see kind of walking through the door are
Speaker 4: people who may be very experienced in business, who may
Speaker 4: not have yet utilized all of their vast knowledge.
Speaker 2: From the stage. So I think a lot.
Speaker 4: Of people wait too long before they say I am
Speaker 4: ready to be a speaker. I am ready to present
Speaker 4: at an event.
Speaker 2: We have a lot of.
Speaker 4: Women who talk to me about these amazing things that
Speaker 4: they have done, and I'm like, why are you not
Speaker 4: out there speaking about these It's like I have climbed
Speaker 4: this mountain, I have done this amazing thing, and I'm like,
Speaker 4: why are.
Speaker 2: You not telling that story? Well, I want to build
Speaker 2: my confidence first.
Speaker 4: I'm like, you know what builds confidence like nothing else,
Speaker 4: Getting up on stage and telling your story like that is.
Speaker 2: The way to get started.
Speaker 1: It's because we fear we're going to be judged how
Speaker 1: how what's our weight, what's our hair? What do we
Speaker 1: look like? How old are we?
Speaker 3: Is?
Speaker 1: Everything we're saying perfect is. It's a it's a probably
Speaker 1: a processing of self confidence issues going on most of
Speaker 1: the time. I think when I talk to people and
Speaker 1: they're like, I don't want to do that. People are
Speaker 1: gonna see.
Speaker 4: Me, you know, I got to say that. You know,
Speaker 4: if anybody had a reason to be nervous, it would
Speaker 4: be me. But at the same time, I do think
Speaker 4: that people we've been told all our lives that speaking
Speaker 4: is something to be fearful of. Like there are all
Speaker 4: these studies about how speaking is the number one fear.
Speaker 4: I think death is like number seven. In other words,
Speaker 4: we would rather die than be on stage. But I
Speaker 4: think so many of us have heard these stories and
Speaker 4: heard about the study that were like, this is something
Speaker 4: we're supposed to be nervous about. This is something we're
Speaker 4: supposed to be frightened of. And I think we've built
Speaker 4: up this fear in our minds to an unreasonable level.
Speaker 4: So I don't really like to talk about the fear
Speaker 4: aspect of public speaking. I think if you do feel
Speaker 4: flushed if you feel a little flutter in the tammy,
Speaker 4: like that's excitement, that's not necessarily nervousness.
Speaker 1: I absolutely love what you did in Maine or anybody
Speaker 1: that has ever not been on stage or had a
Speaker 1: fear of being on stage. You gave everybody equal opportunity
Speaker 1: to be up there and just see what it feels
Speaker 1: like to be on the stage under the lights and
Speaker 1: shine their light upon each other. It was such a
Speaker 1: special moment in my life. It was just so I
Speaker 1: don't know, there's just something about him, like it was
Speaker 1: like one of those, as Katie will say, uplifting other
Speaker 1: women moments. It was so powerful. I think about it
Speaker 1: all the time.
Speaker 2: That's awesome.
Speaker 4: I've done that a couple of times before, and I
Speaker 4: first did it out at the I Tripoli International Leadership
Speaker 4: Conference in California several years ago, and it was one
Speaker 4: of the last sessions. We didn't have the entire I
Speaker 4: don't know, seven thousand people audience there, and I'm like,
Speaker 4: all right, anybody who's left here who hasn't yet been
Speaker 4: on stage, you want it, come on up. And I
Speaker 4: think somebody's about ready to kill me because they were
Speaker 4: nervous about the whole stage collapsing. But we got literally
Speaker 4: hundreds of people on stage for a big group photo
Speaker 4: and people are like, you know what, this is the
Speaker 4: first time I've been on stage, and that I think
Speaker 4: was like a really good way for some people to
Speaker 4: go this is not this is not scary, this is fun.
Speaker 2: I'm here with my friends. It was good.
Speaker 1: It was just fabulous. Yeah, Katie.
Speaker 3: And don't you think Bobby that one of the things
Speaker 3: that helps people not be as anxious is if they
Speaker 3: pick a topic that fits for them, because I think
Speaker 3: that is hugely important. And one of the things I
Speaker 3: love about when we get leads on Innovation Women is
Speaker 3: we tell you what our loves are, our passions, what
Speaker 3: we want to speak about, and the leads come to
Speaker 3: us based on those themes. And I think it's so
Speaker 3: much easier to get up on any stage. Just like
Speaker 3: an actress, you know, you've got to be in character,
Speaker 3: and you've got to know your character. Well, we have
Speaker 3: to know ourselves to know what we're good at speaking about,
Speaker 3: and it's what we care about.
Speaker 4: A lot of people to think about public speaking as
Speaker 4: I'm going to share my area of expertise, but you
Speaker 4: also have to be sharing the things that get you
Speaker 4: excited that you're passionate about. It's very hard for the
Speaker 4: audience to get excited about something if you're not excited
Speaker 4: as this speaker, right, So you have to be excited
Speaker 4: about your topic.
Speaker 2: You have to love that topic, right. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I have an opportunity to speak at the end of
Speaker 1: the month in front of a really big group of
Speaker 1: student athletes, which is a huge goal of mine forever.
Speaker 1: You're one of the reasons why. Yeah, I know. One
Speaker 1: of the reasons why I had you on the show
Speaker 1: is because it just credits back to that moment of
Speaker 1: like being on the stage and having that moment you know,
Speaker 1: I got this, I can do this kind of thing.
Speaker 1: And so I said yes, and I'm like, oh, what
Speaker 1: did I say yes to? No kind of thing? I
Speaker 1: had one of those moments of like a no, and
Speaker 1: everybody knows it, and I'm cool with it. You know,
Speaker 1: it's not my it's not exactly my thing. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm more behind the TV kind of thing. I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I can do this. So I had the most wonderful
Speaker 1: preparatory phone call yesterday to get everybody's ducks in a
Speaker 1: row because I'm sharing the stage with Ed Garrity and
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my, you know kind of thing. So
Speaker 1: it's a really big deal. And I just thank you, Bobby,
Speaker 1: because that I think without that moment, I might have said, no,
Speaker 1: I am.
Speaker 4: I worked with a speaker a while ago, who, like
Speaker 4: many of us, spent several years, you know, in the
Speaker 4: early days of the pandemic and stuff, being alone at
Speaker 4: home and doing lots virtually yea, and she said she
Speaker 4: really felt like she lost the muscle, the memory of
Speaker 4: being on stage in front of real humans. And we
Speaker 4: got her an opportunity to be on stage at a
Speaker 4: pretty major event, and she got up during the dress
Speaker 4: rehearsal and just froze. And I was like, yeah, come here,
Speaker 4: we're going to go and find all the empty rooms
Speaker 4: at this conference, and you're going to hop up on
Speaker 4: that stage and you're going to give that presentation to me.
Speaker 4: And we probably bopped in and out of, you know,
Speaker 4: five to ten different rooms over the course.
Speaker 2: Of a day.
Speaker 4: And at the end of the day, she got up
Speaker 4: and she nailed that presentation. She was so good, and
Speaker 4: it was literally just you know, the muscle memory of
Speaker 4: being on stage it came back.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But you know, also the love and support of you.
Speaker 1: I think there's a when you meet Bobby in person,
Speaker 1: which I hope you all have the moment too. There's
Speaker 1: a warmth to you that I have trouble putting words to.
Speaker 1: I immediately didn't. Katie immediately called you, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I'm at the coolest person. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she's so warm because you could be like, eh, I
Speaker 1: don't have time for you, you know, you know kind
Speaker 1: of thing, and I was scared at first. I'm like, oh, please,
Speaker 1: don't do that to me because I kind of love you, you know.
Speaker 1: And so I got the love back and it was
Speaker 1: so lovely. It just was just warm and friendly, and
Speaker 1: I watched you operate and you did that with everybody
Speaker 1: and it was refreshing.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: It was interesting because I did my presentation that day twice,
Speaker 4: so I think I met you upstairs while we were
Speaker 4: in giving the presentation in the smaller room in the morning.
Speaker 4: You had a booth up like right outside our room,
Speaker 4: and then they had me do the same presentation in
Speaker 4: the big auditorium downstairs later on in the day and
Speaker 4: the first room. Okay, let's put a whole bunch of
Speaker 4: women in their fees pack them tight in a little
Speaker 4: tiny room and make it super hot.
Speaker 5: Like everybody's dying. It was so hot in that room,
Speaker 5: and everybody's like, we open a window, is there ac
Speaker 5: I'm like.
Speaker 4: Who's having a hot flash? But but we had a
Speaker 4: good time in that room, like it was. It was
Speaker 4: you know, a lot of laughing and interaction and stuff.
Speaker 4: And then I got into the auditorium to do the
Speaker 4: same presentation in the afternoon, and everybody spread out in
Speaker 4: the auditorium and there's like three hundred seats and I've
Speaker 4: got about twenty people in the auditorium. And I should
Speaker 4: have like said, Okay, come closer, because otherwise you don't
Speaker 4: get that the feels, you don't get that interaction. And
Speaker 4: the minute I started doing my presentation, I'm like, I'm
Speaker 4: not feeling it. I'm not feeling the usual feels. And
Speaker 4: I said, you know what I'm going to have to do.
Speaker 4: I'm going to have to get everybody up here with me,
Speaker 4: because otherwise the feels are not going to be the
Speaker 4: same and it's not going to be the same experience
Speaker 4: for people who were in the little room this morning. Now, true,
Speaker 4: we were all dying to the heat, but the feels
Speaker 4: were there and the fields are so important to this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they are. I was sitting it with a lot
Speaker 1: of I was actually sitting around a lot of people
Speaker 1: and they were taking intense notes while you were speaking.
Speaker 1: I think you had a really studious want to be
Speaker 1: crowd and it was I could see people, you know, like,
Speaker 1: how do I become this? That was the group that
Speaker 1: you had there. It was a last and the second
Speaker 1: one that they were younger and they were taking notes,
Speaker 1: and I felt like I was the old person in
Speaker 1: the room. I'm like, oh, my kind of thing, and
Speaker 1: it was. It was pretty cute. And when you brought
Speaker 1: up everybody on stage, everybody was tickled so and talked
Speaker 1: about it the rest of the day and everything.
Speaker 2: So it was, yeah, we great picture.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was really cool.
Speaker 4: We got a fantastic picture of that. We got a
Speaker 4: great video of that, and we shared it out when
Speaker 4: people are.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, so much fun. All right, So we're gonna
Speaker 1: run short on time, but I don't want to keep
Speaker 1: you too long here. But why do we need speaker.
Speaker 4: Buddies speaker friends. I'm a big advocate of speaker friends,
Speaker 4: all right. The reason we need speaker friends is very Weirdly,
Speaker 4: speaking as an industry, I swear to God, is so secretive.
Speaker 4: I feel like everybody who has ever stepped foot on
Speaker 4: stage looks around and goes, hey, I could do this.
Speaker 4: I could make money training other people to do this.
Speaker 4: So I'm gonna keep my little secrets to myself and
Speaker 4: I'm not going to share. And that doesn't help anybody else.
Speaker 4: And I don't know that that's how everybody operates, but
Speaker 4: I do feel like speaking as an industry is overly secretive.
Speaker 4: So I think the people who are most successful as
Speaker 4: speakers have access to speaker friends, people they can get
Speaker 4: feedback from, real feedback people, they can ask questions of
Speaker 4: Like if you're friends with people who are on that
Speaker 4: same journey with you, you have access to just so
Speaker 4: much information and knowledge. So that's one of the reasons
Speaker 4: we have these weekly zoom calls Speaker friend Fridays, and
Speaker 4: I say to people, there's no gatekeeping here, no pay
Speaker 4: me money, and learn the secrets. Anybody's welcome. That is
Speaker 4: also how I present. I might go a little too
Speaker 4: deep for some people when it comes to my presentations,
Speaker 4: but I want everybody in the room to walk away
Speaker 4: with those notes you were mentioning like I know how
Speaker 4: to do a thing. Not I saw a presentation where
Speaker 4: somebody promised if I bought the book or I bought
Speaker 4: the coaching, I would learn. No, I want them to
Speaker 4: walk out the room knowing what to do next, and
Speaker 4: speaker friends treat each other that same one.
Speaker 1: Bravo, no email loops of endless loops.
Speaker 4: Have you ever seen those websites that just endlessly scroll
Speaker 4: and you're gonna learn this and you're gonna learn that,
Speaker 4: And I'm like, stop, stop it just tell me what
Speaker 4: I want to know.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's one of the reasons, like why Best every
Speaker 1: Year doesn't have ads on it either. It's like, no,
Speaker 1: it's just just straightforward, all right, Katie, Is there anything
Speaker 1: else you want to ask before we go and to treat?
Speaker 3: Just want to say again, I think one of the
Speaker 3: things I love about working with Bobby and innovation women
Speaker 3: is you're an encourager. And I think good business leaders
Speaker 3: are encouragers and empowerer.
Speaker 2: They empower and encourage and you do both.
Speaker 3: And I think that that's a really important lesson for
Speaker 3: anyone listening who's a business leader.
Speaker 2: Those two words are.
Speaker 3: Key, and you embody them. And I think it's a
Speaker 3: real gift when you can do that, when people don't
Speaker 3: meet you in person, but you but your energy exudes
Speaker 3: those two words. So I am really grateful for that.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 4: I think there are super big stakes when it comes
Speaker 4: to getting more women on stage. We cannot be what
Speaker 4: we can't see. We have to have more women on
Speaker 4: stages so that people can see women as leaders, as experts,
Speaker 4: and it cannot be that the only leaders we have
Speaker 4: are a bunch of the same old white guys. We
Speaker 4: need to see different people on stages so that in
Speaker 4: our mind's eye we understand that anybody can be a leader,
Speaker 4: anybody can be an expert. And right now we're all
Speaker 4: brainwashed to look at a certain person and go, that's
Speaker 4: a leader. So I think that what we do is
Speaker 4: incredibly important, and every single woman who gets on stage
Speaker 4: is embodying a new world and a new world of possibilities.
Speaker 1: Can I add to that and just I also see
Speaker 1: that the people making the decisions of who goes on
Speaker 1: stage being women as powerful as well, and such as
Speaker 1: you saying okay, these are the speakers for this summat
Speaker 1: or this event or whatever, and having that be a
Speaker 1: woman making those decisions is so refreshing also because usually
Speaker 1: it's not the case. And you know, I was on
Speaker 1: a panel the other day and I'm in I've been
Speaker 1: in the financial services industry for a very long time. Also,
Speaker 1: half of me is financial services prior to self help.
Speaker 1: And it's always men. It's five men in me or
Speaker 1: three men in me, or whatever it is. And it's
Speaker 1: men making the decisions of whether I'm going to speak
Speaker 1: or not speak and so forth. And so it's pretty
Speaker 1: cool to see you in your role with I have
Speaker 1: no other word for it, but the power.
Speaker 4: You know. Yeah, we still work with event managers. It's
Speaker 4: still up to them. We can give them a database
Speaker 4: full of women. And I'm still looking for more women
Speaker 4: for our database. I'm still looking for more event managers
Speaker 4: to use our database, and we have to keep building
Speaker 4: up the supply and the demand at the same time.
Speaker 4: But if I have ten thousand women on this platform,
Speaker 4: I feel confident that an event manager will be able
Speaker 4: to find what they need through us, and we'll make
Speaker 4: it easy for them.
Speaker 1: I love it all right. Where would you like people
Speaker 1: to go to find you?
Speaker 2: Innovationwomen dot Com.
Speaker 1: Love it all right, Bobby, Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: being here with us. I really appreciate your time and
Speaker 1: your energy and your expertise. And is there anything that
Speaker 1: we forgot to mention that we should mention before we go?
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 4: I think we just need to kind of all take
Speaker 4: a deep breath these days and kind of look to
Speaker 4: the left, look to the right, make sure we're all
Speaker 4: looking out for each other.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well said Katie.
Speaker 3: Is there anything that you want to add before we go? No,
Speaker 3: I think Bobby just ended it on a really good note.
Speaker 3: Collective compassion, absolutely yes, lift each other up.
Speaker 1: All right, everybody, thank you for being here. I'm going
Speaker 1: to try and figure out how to stop the recording.
Speaker 1: I can edit this, don't worry. I think that