Strategies Professional Women Speakers Use to Get Ahead

What do professional speakers who have speaking for 10 years or more say they wished they had known before they started speaking professionally?
What would have made their life a lot easier, resulting in far less struggles, more credibility in a male-dominated work force, a bigger bank account, and easier access to more diverse audiences? What would have eliminated some daily frustrations?
I Wish I Had...
I took a survey among some of my professional friends in the business and here are some of their responses:
"Had I paid more attention to speaking as a BUSINESS, I wouldn't have made some really dumb financial decisions along the way!"
"I believe in going for whatever I want and often that's what I do. The problem is that I run into situations when I View the rest of this article