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? Good to see you, Bobby,
Speaker 1: good to be here. Good to be here. Yeah. Katie
Speaker 1: and I talk like every minute of the day. So
Speaker 1: 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. Okay, I 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, and I
Speaker 1: don't want to know all. I just want to give
Speaker 1: the Florida Bobby and have it tell us all about her.
Speaker 2: So Innovation Women is actually my third company. I usually
Speaker 2: tell people. The day job is I run Carlton PR Marketing.
Speaker 2: That's how I make an actual living. The night job
Speaker 2: for many years was something called Mass Innovation Nights, which
Speaker 2: was a monthly new product launch event driven by social
Speaker 2: media help promote local startups. And then Innovation Women is
Speaker 2: the dream job. It's the dream of getting more women
Speaker 2: on stage at conferences and events because two thirds of
Speaker 2: all conference speakers are men, and it leaves women out
Speaker 2: of all kinds of business and career opportunities.
Speaker 1: It trure, 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 2: There's a lot of actual systemic reasons for that. One
Speaker 2: of them is speaking begets speaking. The more speaking you do,
Speaker 2: the more speaking you will do, and so older patterns
Speaker 2: kind of perpetuate. And if you're looking at this from
Speaker 2: an event manager perspective, they are asking for brand names,
Speaker 2: recognizable faces, people they know the heads of company is
Speaker 2: the c suite, and you know if you define who
Speaker 2: you want on your stage by the c suite from
Speaker 2: the Fortune five hundred, very small number of women there.
Speaker 2: But there's actually a lot of reasons. Even at the
Speaker 2: smaller company size, more women work part time, women are
Speaker 2: more likely to work for smaller companies, and women are
Speaker 2: still more likely to be responsible for kids at home.
Speaker 2: So if you get asked to speak, you know, it's
Speaker 2: hard to be the morning keynote speaker if you've got
Speaker 2: to put little Johnny on the bus at eight am.
Speaker 2: It's hard to get away for three days, which is
Speaker 2: what it would take to travel to a conference to
Speaker 2: speak and then come back. If you only work three
Speaker 2: days a week, and if you work for a smaller company,
Speaker 2: that company probably can't afford to send you to a
Speaker 2: conference for three days. There's nobody to backfill for you,
Speaker 2: and they might not have the money for the travel
Speaker 2: and all the expenses associated with it. So systemic reasons included.
Speaker 2: 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.
Speaker 1: I never would have found.
Speaker 3: I think Innovation Women has a wonderful opportunity for authors
Speaker 3: as well. You've got a section where we can identify
Speaker 3: ourselves as with our books, and there's also a place
Speaker 3: where we can reach out and announce and say what's
Speaker 3: on our minds and what we're thinking about and hey,
Speaker 3: is there anybody out there who wants to talk about that?
Speaker 1: A lot of options.
Speaker 3: Innovation Women offers, and I think just Bobby's brilliant and
Speaker 3: I think what she's done is huge, and I'm grateful,
Speaker 3: very grateful for somebody like me who was just how
Speaker 3: would I get out there?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean Innovation Women has a profile for each speaker,
Speaker 2: a searchable database for event managers to come in and
Speaker 2: search for speA We also have a database of opportunities
Speaker 2: that our speakers can apply to. We have the what
Speaker 2: we call the green Room, which is where all of
Speaker 2: our education is, and we have the Innovation Women Network,
Speaker 2: which is an online community so our speakers can network
Speaker 2: 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
Speaker 2: that the skill set for somebody in my position, so
Speaker 2: longtime pr person. I'm really good at research, I'm really
Speaker 2: good at writing. These are my superpowers. And public speaking
Speaker 2: was something that I did with other people. I got
Speaker 2: them on stage. I continue to do that. I always
Speaker 2: tell people I'm one of the theater kids, you know,
Speaker 2: like always out there. But my job in the theater
Speaker 2: was I was the spotlight operator. I was the person
Speaker 2: who was hiding out in the rafters shining a spotlight
Speaker 2: on the star of the show. I was not the
Speaker 2: singing and dancing on the stage kind of person. And
Speaker 2: I discovered when I started my second company that I
Speaker 2: needed to be front and center in order to connect
Speaker 2: with customers and partners. I needed to be the theater
Speaker 2: kid on the stage versus the one in the back
Speaker 2: room in order to move my business forward. And the
Speaker 2: first event that we did for Innovation Nights, I was awful.
Speaker 2: I mean seriously hot mess. And it was a social
Speaker 2: media powered event and everybody had their cameras out and
Speaker 2: video lots of evidence of me being a hot mess.
Speaker 2: So it was a situation where you look at those pictures,
Speaker 2: you look at that video, and you say, I get
Speaker 2: better at this or I die. And I chose to
Speaker 2: 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 stage.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you got to make your own stage, which is
Speaker 2: really what I did with Innovation Nights. I ran Innovation
Speaker 2: Nights actively for eleven years. We had a monthly event
Speaker 2: dured in thirty five events, and every single month I
Speaker 2: was the MC, I was the host, and I was
Speaker 2: literally doing the same thing every single month. And as
Speaker 2: I did it again and again and again, I got
Speaker 2: better at it, and pretty soon people were asking me, oh,
Speaker 2: can you come and speak at my event? Really me,
Speaker 2: And then you know, it kind of dawned on me,
Speaker 2: Oh you've gotten better at what you were doing. People
Speaker 2: do want you to speak. I think some of it
Speaker 2: for many people. If you can't create your own stages,
Speaker 2: you can start smaller. One of the recommendations I usually
Speaker 2: give to people is, if you need that dip your
Speaker 2: toe in opportunity, ask a question from the audience that
Speaker 2: the next conference that you're at. If you think about it,
Speaker 2: you're probably talking to the exact same audience that the
Speaker 2: people on stage were speaking to. And you've got a short,
Speaker 2: little punctuation of a moment. You get to identify yourself,
Speaker 2: this is my company, ask my question, and then you
Speaker 2: can sit down and disappear into the audience. But you
Speaker 2: just spoke to the exact same audience that the folks
Speaker 2: on stage spoke to. It's your turned 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
Speaker 3: have given me a stage that I would not have
Speaker 3: otherwise had, And I'm most grateful for that because I'm
Speaker 3: one of those people who doesn't shy away from being
Speaker 3: a speaker, loves it, eats it up, but just how
Speaker 3: do I get there? So I really encourage people to
Speaker 3: become part of Innovation Women because it gives you your stage.
Speaker 3: It helps you find your stage where you fit.
Speaker 2: We also do a thing called Speaker Friend Fridays, a
Speaker 2: zoom call every week and for a lot of people
Speaker 2: I know they've said that for them, that was their
Speaker 2: first stage, introducing themselves, asking a question, answering someone else's question.
Speaker 2: 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: whole backgrounds in the news anchoring and and so forth industry,
Speaker 1: So TV reporting and anchoring and stuff like that, but
Speaker 1: not theater exactly. But yeah, now it's interesting, so different
Speaker 1: backgrounds is there? Is there a certain something that you
Speaker 1: look for in people to be on stage? Do you
Speaker 1: have Like if somebody's listening and they're like, Bobby, I
Speaker 1: need you, I've got to track you down because I
Speaker 1: want to be the keynote of blah blah blah, or
Speaker 1: I want to give the commencement address. You know, something
Speaker 1: big that they want to do. Do you have a
Speaker 1: series of things that you're looking for, So maybe that happen.
Speaker 2: Women is a platform, it's a membership group, and what
Speaker 2: we do is we provide the services from Innovation Women's
Speaker 2: Platform to anybody if people are looking for a way
Speaker 2: to get more visibility, if they're looking for a way
Speaker 2: to build their business, or a great opportunity for that.
Speaker 2: The things that I love to see kind of walking
Speaker 2: through the door are people who may be very experienced
Speaker 2: in business, who may not have yet utilized all of
Speaker 2: their vast knowledge from the stage. So I think a
Speaker 2: lot of people wait too long before they say I
Speaker 2: am ready to be a speaker. I am ready to
Speaker 2: present at an event. We have a lot of women
Speaker 2: who talk to me about these amazing things that they
Speaker 2: have done, and I'm like, why are you not out
Speaker 2: there speaking about these It's like I have climbed this mountain,
Speaker 2: I have done this amazing thing, and I'm like, why
Speaker 2: are you not telling that story? Well, I want to
Speaker 2: build my confidence first, Like you know what builds confidence
Speaker 2: like nothing else, Getting up on stage and telling your
Speaker 2: story like that is 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? Is everything we're saying
Speaker 1: perfect because it's a it's a probably a processing of
Speaker 1: self confidence issues going on most of the time. I
Speaker 1: think when I talk to people and they're like, I
Speaker 1: don't want to do that. People are gonna see.
Speaker 2: Me, you know, I got to say that. You know,
Speaker 2: if anybody had a reason to be nervous, it would
Speaker 2: be me. But at the same time, I do think
Speaker 2: that people we've been told all our lives that speaking
Speaker 2: is something to be fearful of. Like there are all
Speaker 2: these studies about how speaking is the number one fear.
Speaker 2: I think death is like number seven. In other words,
Speaker 2: we would rather die than be on stage. But I
Speaker 2: think so many of us have heard these stories and
Speaker 2: heard about the study that were like, this is something
Speaker 2: we're supposed to be nervous about. This is something we're
Speaker 2: supposed to be frightened of, And I think we've built
Speaker 2: up this fear in our minds to an unreasonable level.
Speaker 2: So I don't really like to talk about the fear
Speaker 2: aspect of public speaking. I think if you do feel flushed,
Speaker 2: if you feel a little flutter in the tammy like,
Speaker 2: 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.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 1: It's so powerful. I think about it all the time.
Speaker 2: That's awesome. I've done that a couple of times before,
Speaker 2: and I first did it out at the I Tripoli
Speaker 2: International Leadership Conference in California several years ago, and it
Speaker 2: was one of the last sessions. We didn't have the
Speaker 2: entire I don't know, seven thousand people audience there, and
Speaker 2: I'm like, all right, anybody who's left here who hasn't
Speaker 2: yet been on stage, you want it, come on up.
Speaker 2: And I think somebody is about ready to kill me
Speaker 2: because they were nervous about the whole stage collapsing. But
Speaker 2: we got literally hundreds of people on stage for a
Speaker 2: big group photo and people are like, you know what,
Speaker 2: this is the first time I've been on stage, and
Speaker 2: that I think was like a really good way for
Speaker 2: some people to go this is not this is not scary,
Speaker 2: this is fun. I'm here with my friends. It was good.
Speaker 1: It was just fabulous. Yeah, Katie.
Speaker 4: And don't you think Bobby that one of the things
Speaker 4: that helps people not be as anxious is if they
Speaker 4: pick a topic that fits for them, because I think
Speaker 4: that is hugely important.
Speaker 3: And one of the things I love about when we
Speaker 3: get leads on Innovation Women is we tell you what
Speaker 3: our loves are, our passions, what we want to speak about,
Speaker 3: and the leads come to us based on those themes,
Speaker 3: and I think it's so much easier to get up
Speaker 3: on any stage. Just like an actress, you know, you've
Speaker 3: got to be in character, and you've got to know
Speaker 3: your character. We have to know ourselves to know what
Speaker 3: we're good at speaking about, and it's what we care about.
Speaker 2: A lot of people to think about public speaking as
Speaker 2: I'm going to share my area of expertise, but you
Speaker 2: also have to be sharing the things that get you
Speaker 2: excited that you're passionate about. It's very hard for the
Speaker 2: audience to get excited about something if you're not excited
Speaker 2: as this speaker, right, So you have to be excited
Speaker 2: about your topic. You have to love that topic, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I have an opportunity to speak at the end
Speaker 1: of the month in front of a really big group
Speaker 1: of student athletes, which is a huge goal of mine forever.
Speaker 1: You're one of the reasons. Yeah, I know. One of
Speaker 1: the reasons why I had you on the show is
Speaker 1: because it just credits back to that moment of like
Speaker 1: being on the stage and having that moment of but
Speaker 1: you know, I got this, I can do this kind
Speaker 1: of thing, And so I said yes, and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: what did I say yes to? No kind of thing.
Speaker 1: I had one of those moments of like a no,
Speaker 1: and 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. And 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 2: I am. I worked with a speaker a while ago, who,
Speaker 2: like many of us, spent several years, you know, in
Speaker 2: the early days of the pandemic and stuff, being alone
Speaker 2: at home and doing lots virtually. Yeah, and she said
Speaker 2: she really felt like she lost the muscle, the memory
Speaker 2: of being on stage in front of real humans. And
Speaker 2: we got her an opportunity to be on stage at
Speaker 2: a pretty major event, and she got up during the
Speaker 2: dress rehearsal and just froze. And I was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: come here, we're going to go and find all the
Speaker 2: empty rooms at this conference, and you're going to hop
Speaker 2: up on that stage and you're going to give that
Speaker 2: presentation to me. And we probably bopped in and out of,
Speaker 2: you know, five to ten different rooms over the course
Speaker 2: of a day. And at the end of the day
Speaker 2: she got up and she nailed that presentation. She was
Speaker 2: so good, and it was literally just you know, the
Speaker 2: muscle memory of being on stage it came back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, 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
Speaker 1: to I immediate didn't. I. Katie immediately called you, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god, I'm at the coolest person. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she's so warm because you could be like I don't
Speaker 1: have time for you, you know, you know kind of thing,
Speaker 1: 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,
Speaker 1: you know. And so I got the love back, and
Speaker 1: it was so lovely. It just was just warm and friendly.
Speaker 1: And I watched you operate and you did that with
Speaker 1: everybody and it was refreshing.
Speaker 2: You know. It was interesting because I did my presentation
Speaker 2: that day twice, so I think I met you upstairs
Speaker 2: while we were in giving the presentation in the smaller
Speaker 2: room in the morning. You had a booth up like
Speaker 2: right outside our room. And then they had me do
Speaker 2: the same presentation in the big auditorium downstairs later on
Speaker 2: in the day and the first room. Okay, let's put
Speaker 2: a whole bunch of women in their fees, pack them
Speaker 2: tight in a little, tiny room and make it super hot,
Speaker 2: like everybody's dying. It was so hot in that room,
Speaker 2: and everybody's like, can we open a window?
Speaker 5: Is there ac I'm like, who's having a hot flash?
Speaker 5: But we had a good time in that room, like
Speaker 5: it was. It was you know, a lot of laughing
Speaker 5: and interaction and stuff. And then I got into the
Speaker 5: auditorium to do the same presentation in the afternoon and
Speaker 5: everybody spread out in the auditorium and there's like three
Speaker 5: hundred seats and I've got about twenty people in the auditorium.
Speaker 5: And I should have like said, okay, come closer, because
Speaker 5: otherwise you don't get that the feels, you don't get
Speaker 5: that interaction. And the minute I started doing my presentation,
Speaker 5: like I'm not feeling it. I'm not feeling the usual feels.
Speaker 5: And I said, you know what I'm going to have
Speaker 5: to do.
Speaker 2: I'm going to have to get everybody up here with me,
Speaker 2: because otherwise the feels are not going to be the
Speaker 2: same and it's not going to be the same experience
Speaker 2: for people who were in the little room this morning. Now, true,
Speaker 2: we were all dying to the heat, but the fields
Speaker 2: 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, OK, yeah, we great picture that vibe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was really cool.
Speaker 2: We got a fantastic picture of that. We got a
Speaker 2: great video of that, and we shared it out when
Speaker 2: people are.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, so much fun. All right, So we're gonna
Speaker 1: run short on time. I don't want to keep you
Speaker 1: too long here. But why do we need speaker buddies?
Speaker 2: Oh, speaker friends. I'm a big advocate of speaker friends,
Speaker 2: all right. The reason we need speaker friends is very
Speaker 2: weirdly speaking, as an industry, I swear to God, is
Speaker 2: so secretive. I feel like everybody who has ever stepped
Speaker 2: foot on stage looks around and goes, hey, I could
Speaker 2: do this. I could make money training other people to
Speaker 2: do this. So I'm gonna keep my little secrets to
Speaker 2: myself and I'm not going to share. And that doesn't
Speaker 2: help anybody else. And I don't know that that's how
Speaker 2: everybody operates, but I do feel like speaking as an
Speaker 2: industry is overly secretive. So I think the people who
Speaker 2: are most successful as speakers have access to speaker friends,
Speaker 2: people they can get feedback from, real feedback people they
Speaker 2: can ask questions of, Like if you're friends with people
Speaker 2: who are on that same journey with you, you have
Speaker 2: access to just so much information and knowledge. So that's
Speaker 2: one of the reasons we have these weekly zoom calls
Speaker 2: Speaker friend Fridays, and I say to people, there's no
Speaker 2: gatekeeping here, no pay me money, and learn the secrets.
Speaker 2: Anybody's welcome. That is also how I present. I might
Speaker 2: go a little too deep for some people when it
Speaker 2: comes to my presentations, but I want everybody in the
Speaker 2: room to walk away with those notes you were mentioning,
Speaker 2: Like I know how to do a thing. Not I
Speaker 2: saw a presentation where somebody promised if I bought the
Speaker 2: book or I bought the coaching, I would learn. No,
Speaker 2: I want them to walk out the room knowing what
Speaker 2: to do next, and speaker friends treat each other that
Speaker 2: same one.
Speaker 1: Bravo, no email loops of endless loops.
Speaker 2: Have you ever seen those websites that just endlessly scroll
Speaker 2: and you're gonna learn this and you're gonna learn that,
Speaker 2: And I'm like, stop, stop it just tell me what
Speaker 2: 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
Speaker 1: treat having.
Speaker 3: Just want to say again, I think one of the
Speaker 3: things I love about working with Bobby and innovation women is.
Speaker 1: You're an encourager.
Speaker 3: And I think good business leaders are encouragers and empowerer.
Speaker 1: 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. Those two words are key,
Speaker 3: and you embody them. And I think it's a real
Speaker 3: gift when you can do that, when people don't meet
Speaker 3: you in person, but you but your energy exudes those
Speaker 3: two words.
Speaker 1: So I am really grateful for that. Thank you.
Speaker 2: I think there are super big stakes when it comes
Speaker 2: to getting more women on stage. We cannot be what
Speaker 2: we can't see. We have to have more women on
Speaker 2: stages so that people can see women as leaders, as experts,
Speaker 2: and it cannot be that the only leaders we have
Speaker 2: are a bunch of the same old white guys. We
Speaker 2: need to see different people on stages so that in
Speaker 2: our mind's eye we understand that anybody can be a leader,
Speaker 2: anybody can be an expert. And right now we're all
Speaker 2: brainwashed to look at a certain person and go that's
Speaker 2: a leader. So I think that what we do is
Speaker 2: incredibly important, and every single woman who gets on stage
Speaker 2: 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, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we still work with event managers. It's still up
Speaker 2: to them. We can give them a database full of women,
Speaker 2: and I'm still looking for more women for our database.
Speaker 2: I'm still looking for more event managers to use our database,
Speaker 2: and we have to keep building up the supply and
Speaker 2: the demand at the same time. But if I have
Speaker 2: ten thousand women on this platform, I feel confident that
Speaker 2: an event manager will be able to find what they
Speaker 2: need through us, and we'll make 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 I think we just need to kind of
Speaker 2: all take a deep breath these days and kind of
Speaker 2: look to the left, look to the right, make sure
Speaker 2: we're all looking out for each other.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well said Katie. Is there anything that you want
Speaker 6: to add before we go? No, I think Bobby just
Speaker 6: ended it on a really good note. Collective compassion, absolutely yes,
Speaker 6: 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