Lovelda Vincenzi takes us on her journey from growing up in 3 countries to traveling as an adult to over 50 countries. She also takes us on her entrepreneurial journey and opens up about her failed business ventures before eventually transitioning out of her corporate 9-5 job.  Lovelda shares her lessons learned and tips for how to make the entrepreneurial leap.  She then takes us behind the scenes of how she landed her TedX talk, how she delivered it, and what it led to.  Lovelda explains what a keynote is, and is not, and deconstructs the elements of what makes a great keynote speech.  Lovelda also distinguishes between a ‘public speaker’ and a ‘professional speaker’.  She explains how to become a paid speaker and gradually increase your speaking fee.  Lovelda also unveils some key distinctions and strategies about how to optimize the ROI of your speaking engagements to grow your business.  She then talks about her coaching program for women speakers, shares some success stories, and explains what she would do if starting from scratch to go from ‘zero’ to ‘paid international keynote speaker’ as fast as possible.  And, finally, she reflects on what travel means to her and drops her top 5 hip hop MCs of all time.  FULL SHOW NOTES AVAILABLE AT: www.TheMaverickShow.com