Get Paid to do What you Love

Love speaking? Not afraid to speak your views in front of people? Maybe it's time you went into motivational speaking as a career. Get paid to speak at conferences, businesses, seminars, colleges, schools or even train your own team.

This is an exciting, high-paying job that lets you truly express yourself. You can make a real positive impact on people's lives just by having them in your audience.

In the past, famous and fantastic speakers have touched the lives of thousands of people. Motivational speakers today inspire and teach young child up to older business men and women. Everyone needs a little insight and motivation every now and then, and the best kind of motivation comes from a motivational speaker. Depending on which life stages your audience are at, you can inspire and guide them towards a brighter future.

Children can be inspired to go to university, start their own business or begin an exciting new hobby. Adults can be encouraged to change careers, make a new start, become more healthy or focus on the most important things in their life - they might just need some guidance on what these things are.

Motivational speakers themselves enjoy fun and freedom in their careers, while helping others. Not many jobs have this many benefits!

There are thousands of opportunities for motivational speakers, and it's best to start in an area that you know best. Where will you start?

Diversity in the Motivational Speakers Industry

Hundreds of motivational speakers regularly deliver their speeches and messages to audiences across the world, but it is not widely known that diversity has long been coming to this industry. For many years, speaker Jimmy Cabrera was the only Hispanic certified speaker worldwide.

To make this fact more widely known, there have been speakers association conferences held across the world, spreading the word out about multinational speakers and the greater need for them, especially in developing business cultures. The London Speaker Bureau have worldwide offices to cater to all nationalities of business, conferences and people in need of motivational speakers. The world-renowned De Posada is one of the few multinational motivational speakers, having achieved such success that he was honored with a CSP:


De Posada reflects: "Attaining the CSP has been one of the most difficult achievements of my speaking career. The demanding requirements of the process include having a high number of clients, high-level income, collecting testimonial letters, arranging conference calls between NSA and clients, and meeting standards of record keeping. At times, the process was a nightmare, but earning the CSP has been a career-long goal for me." He says, "As I continued my speaking career I also felt duty-bound to achieve it as a Latino, since Cabrera had been sole Hispanic recipient since the NSA founding in 1974. I am proud to achieve my goal and be recognized with the CSP by my NSA colleagues."

Read more about the London Speaker Bureau's worldwide offices at the London Speaker Bureau website.

Sebastian Coe's latest speaking endevours

Sebastian Coe has recently been speaking at the Yorkshire Gold Business Club, which is aimed at ensuring the Yorkshire businesses are in the best position to cater for London 2012 related opportunities as the games draw closer and closer. As the games will bring lots of unique business opportunities across the UK, it is important businesses know how to spot, manage and make the most of them all.

Coe states that there will be more than £600 million worth of contracts over the next two years leading up to the games. Speaking of Yorkshire specifically, he said that there was no reason why Yorkshire companies cannot be part of the games phenomenon.

All future opportunities are registered on a website called Compete For, in order to make sure that everyone has a fair chance of getting involved.

Read more about how Sebastian Coe is promoting the London 2012 Olympics and how you can contact him for help or advice by visiting his profile page.

A Look at Hamish Taylor's Latest Business

One of Hamish Taylor latest endevours was as Chief Executive Officer of Sainsbury's Bank, which was a joint venture between Sainsbury's and Bank of Scotland. The ojective was rapid growth in profit from his position, utilising the ability to innovate and move away from the traditional banking approaches. He made the bank behave more like a retailor and this proved to be most successful.

Hamish later moved on to Vision UK in the position of CEO. Here he worked with clients ranging from Time Warner to General Motors and always brought profit back to the UK.

Hamish is now a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Transport, and was the Rail Professional Business Manager of the year in 1998 for his results at Eurostar.

Hamish is happily married and has three young boys, living in Edinburgh. To read more about him, please see the Hamish Taylor profile page.

The greatest British explorer?

Some say that the world's greatest explorer is the amazing Sir Ranulph Fiennes. He has been on some amazing expeditions so far, but he is now planning his next endevour, in between all his speaking events where he acts as a keynote motivational speaker.

He has been speaking to the press about his next adventure: “I just spent half the night talking to the guy who is doing the polar ship, who’s the same bloke who did the Transglobe ship, and he was just telling me that he’s got all the blokes that are still alive [from the Transglobe expedition] back from New Zealand, Fiji, all over the place, to man this ship for two years.”

For now, Ranulph Fiennes doesn't have enough money to buy the ship he wants, but he also won't tell anyone what the boat is going to do. The reason for this he claims is that he wants to keep it secret, as in the past people have stolen his ideas!

Read more about Ranulph Fiennes' explorations at his profile page.

Sebastian Coe - Inspiration to be a winner

Successful athlete and motivational speaker Sebastian Coe states that anyone and everyone can find it in themselves to find the inspiration to be an Olympic winner - and why let this be your limit? Finding the inspiration to do such a mammoth task may be all the inspiration one needs to do anything they may be struggling with, whether in work, life or relationships.

We all need a little inspiration or motivation in our lives from time to time, even if you are one of the most energetic and motivated people in your team or group. coe states that failure is often the wake up call and motivation that many people need to go on to succeed. He qualifies this advice by using an analogy from his racing days as an Olympic athlete - fighting to win is often one of the strongest motivators, but it can make a person single-goal-focused. Always remember you most likely have other responsibilities before dedicating your concentration on just one.

Follow more motivational advice on this blog, or even try looking through our archives for more advice, news, tips and information.

Ken Livingstone hasn't lost his touch

Ken Livingstone hasn't lost his touch. He has a new campaign with the slogan, "Yes We Ken", might easily be compared to something Barack Obama's team may come up with, but Livingstone pulls it off despite being a 64 year old grandad who has been working in politics since 1971.

Senior Labour MP Jon Cruddas said a second title for Mr Livingstone would mean “a top class Mayor from day one, who knows the levers of power”.

The winner will be announced in September. Livingstone is going up against ex-MP Oona King.

South London press have highlighted the support Livingstone has been receiving from his fellow Londoners, putting him in a very strong position for the new Mayor.