3 Straightforward Ways to Get Paid for Speaking Engagements Someone with similar experience, credentials and work history is getting paid to speak every single day. So why not you?

As someone who has been speaking and coaching for a living since 2001, one of the very first questions I get is, "Where can I find paid speaking engagements?"

In other words, people know that others get paid to speak on a regular basis, and they feel (usually correctly), that they could do the same. But the question becomes, where can I find these paid speaking gigs and start moving forward?

That's a great question and one that I talk to clients about a lot. So here are three ways that I personally use to get paid speaking engagements.