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In 1974, Dolly Parton said no to Elvis Presley.He wanted to record I Will Always Love You. The night before the session,...
25/08/2026

In 1974, Dolly Parton said no to Elvis Presley.

He wanted to record I Will Always Love You. The night before the session, his manager called and said Elvis takes half the publishing on every song he records. Standard deal. Everyone said yes.

Dolly said no.

She cried all night. Turning down Elvis was unthinkable. But she knew what her work was worth, and she was not handing over half of it for the privilege of a big name saying her words.

Eighteen years later, Whitney Houston recorded that song. Because Dolly still owned every note of it, the royalties made her millions. She later joked she earned enough to buy Graceland.

Dolly has died at 80. And that story is the one I keep coming back to.

Because I meet brilliant people every week who are still taking the modern version of that deal. Speak for free, it will be great exposure. Give us your expertise, think of the association.

Elvis was the greatest exposure offer in history. Dolly still said no.

Dolly spent her life giving. Millions of books to kids. A million dollars to vaccine research. She could afford to be that generous because she never gave her work away.

Know your worth. Charge properly. Then be generous on your own terms.

Rest easy, Dolly. Thanks for the songs and the masterclass.

If this is your year to stop speaking for free, join my Claude Your Way to Paid Speaking challenge which starts next week

jaimieabbott.com.au/challenge

Or comment CHALLENGE below.

You do not need more confidence to get paid to speak.You need the right assets.A speaker bio.A strong one sheet.Clear ke...
25/08/2026

You do not need more confidence to get paid to speak.

You need the right assets.

A speaker bio.
A strong one sheet.
Clear keynote topics.
A fee you can say without second-guessing yourself.
A speaker kit you are actually proud to send.

That is exactly what we are building inside Claude Your Way to Paid Speaking.

Over 30 days, I will show you how to use Claude to help you create the speaker assets that make it easier for event organisers to understand what you do, who you help and why they should book you.

You do not need to be “good at AI”.

You just need to follow the prompts.

Starts 1 September.

The challenge is $97.

By the end of September, your speaker kit will be done.

www.jaimieabbott.com.au/challenge

Or comment CHALLENGE below

25/08/2026

AI can write the speech. It can’t walk on stage and be believed.

That gap is about to be worth a lot of money.

Every proposal, report and email is starting to sound the same. Same structure, same tidy sentences, same confident tone. The written word is being flattened.

So what separates you from the next person now? You. In a room. Answering a question you were not expecting.

Think about the roles that will still be here in ten years. The keynote speaker. The executive who fronts the board. The lawyer in front of a jury. The doctor delivering bad news. The leader announcing the restructure.

None of those jobs are about information. Information is free now. They are about a human being trusted while they deliver it.

You cannot outsource being believed.

AI is not your competition. It is your prep.

It can build your speaker bio, your one sheet, your signature topics and your fee structure in days instead of months. Then you go and do the bit only you can do.

That is exactly what we are doing inside my challenge, Claude Your Way to Paid Speaking. Eight lessons, three live calls, and a pre loaded Claude project that builds your speaker assets with you.

You walk out knowing exactly what you speak about, what you are worth, and who needs to hear it.

Join us here: www.jaimieabbott.com.au/challenge

Or comment CHALLENGE below.

24/08/2026

You are not short on talent. You are short on a one sheet,
three topics and a fee.

Comment the word CHALLENGE and I’ll send you the link.

Here is how a speaking gig actually gets decided.Someone says your name in a meeting. A conference committee. A leadersh...
24/08/2026

Here is how a speaking gig actually gets decided.

Someone says your name in a meeting. A conference committee. A leadership day. A CEO putting together a staff conference. Someone writes it down.

Then later that afternoon, they type your name into Google.

That is the moment. Not the pitch. Not the coffee. That search.

They are looking for three things. What you speak about. Whether you are any good. What it costs.

If they cannot find all three quickly, they move on to the next name.

Most people fail on all three. Not because they are bad speakers. Because there is nothing there to find.

A LinkedIn headline that says "passionate about helping people". No topic titles. No one sheet. No fee. A Canva file you started in March and never opened again.

The organiser does not think "she is not ready yet". They think nothing at all. They move on, and you never hear the conversation happened.

That is the part that stings. You do not get told you lost. You never find out you were in it.

Now the good news. This is a packaging problem, not a talent problem. Packaging is fixable, and it is fixable in 30 days.

That is exactly what Claude Your Way to Paid Speaking does.

It starts Monday 1 September. Over 30 days you build the three things that search needs to turn up:

A speaker one sheet that answers every question an organiser has before they think to ask it.

Three keynote topics with titles worth booking.

A fee. An actual number, said out loud, without your voice going up at the end.

Eight lessons. Three live calls on Thursdays. A pop up community for the 30 days. And a Claude project I have already built and loaded for you, so you never sit in front of a blank page wondering where to start.

You will not walk out booked. You will walk out bookable.

There is a difference between those two words, and that difference is the reason organisers keep choosing someone else.

Enrolment closes midnight Sunday 31 August. There is a standard option and a VIP option, where I review your assets personally on Loom and you get a VIP only call plus WhatsApp access to me.

Join here: https://www.jaimieabbott.com.au/challenge

Someone is going to search your name in the next month. Give them something to find.

There is a conversation happening in the speaking industry right now that I am done being polite about.This week I watch...
23/08/2026

There is a conversation happening in the speaking industry right now that I am done being polite about.

This week I watched an event organiser post looking for a keynote speaker. National conference. Hundreds of people in the room. Sponsors on the banners. Venue paid for. AV paid for. Catering paid for. Programmes printed and paid for.

The speaker slot? Unpaid. Great exposure.

And the comments filled up with speakers saying yes.

I know that conversation is happening. Because I used to be in it.

For years I said yes to unpaid gigs and called it investment. I drove two hours each way. I wrote a brand new keynote for one room. I paid for my own parking, then stood in a hotel foyer afterwards being told how good I was by people who had a budget for the flowers.

Then I drove home and worried about my invoicing.

That was normal. Everyone told me it was normal.

Let’s stop pretending it is.

Every single person in that room is paid. The AV technician is paid. The venue is paid. The person who printed the lanyards is paid. The photographer is paid. The only one asked to donate their expertise for the privilege of being seen is the one standing at the front holding the entire room together.

I am not saying never speak for free. I do it constantly, for causes I choose, and the words that matter there are I choose.

There is a difference between giving and being taken from. The difference is whether you decided.

And this keeps happening not because organisers are villains. It keeps happening because we keep saying yes. Every time an experienced speaker accepts unpaid, the going rate for the person coming up behind them drops to zero.

We are training an entire industry to expect free.

The speakers coming through now deserve to walk into a conversation that already assumes they get paid. That only happens if the people already established stop treating free as the entry fee.

I have a lot more to say on this.

This week it was in my face again, and it is not okay.

Speakers, what did saying yes to free actually cost you?

Organisers, what really stops a speaker fee going into the budget?

You could be one month away from looking like a completely different speaker online.Not because you suddenly become more...
20/08/2026

You could be one month away from looking like a completely different speaker online.

Not because you suddenly become more experienced.

Because you finally package what you already know.

For the next 30 days, the goal is simple.

Turn your expertise into speaker assets that make you easier to understand, easier to pitch, and easier to book.

That means getting clear on your message.

Naming your talks properly.

Writing a speaker bio that sounds like you.

Creating a one sheet you are proud to send.

Working out what to charge.

And building a real list of people to pitch.

Claude helps you get there faster.

I’ll show you how to use it without ending up with generic AI copy that sounds like everyone else.

Claude Your Way to Paid Speaking starts 1 September.

If paid speaking has been sitting on your “one day” list, this is the month to move it.

Comment CHALLENGE below

I've just hit 20,000 followers on LinkedIn 🎉No ads. No engagement pods. No bought followers.Four things built this:1. Co...
20/08/2026

I've just hit 20,000 followers on LinkedIn 🎉

No ads. No engagement pods. No bought followers.

Four things built this:

1. Consistency. I posted when my only engagement was a man trying to sell me crypto. Most people quit at month 3. The growth lives on the other side of that.

2. Storytelling. I take you with me. Jamaica,
the $30 gigs and the $10,000 days. Yes, I talk about myself. That is not ego. That is the product demo.

3. Variety. Carousels, videos, photo posts, the occasional sequin appreciation post. And if you stand near me at an event, congratulations. You are content now. Check your notifications.

4. Value, value, value, sell. I give the lessons away free, so when I sell, you already know what I deliver. And I sell everything here. My courses, my coaching, my keynotes. LinkedIn is not my diary. It is my shopfront.

And yes, I use AI. I named my challenge after it. But the wins, the losses, the embarrassing bits? All me. You cannot outsource vulnerability.

Scroll back up. Everything you read was the value.

This is the sell. Told you the formula works.

The Claude Your Way to Paid Speaking challenge starts 1 September. 30 days to build the assets that make you bookable. Your one sheet, your three keynote topics, your fee. You finish knowing exactly what you speak about, what you are worth, and who needs to hear it.

Followers are lovely. A fee is better.

Join the challenge here:

https://www.jaimieabbott.com.au/challenge

20/08/2026

Event organisers are not looking for the best speaker. They are looking for the safest booking.

Their reputation is on the line every time they hand someone a microphone. So they do not gamble. They go with the speaker who makes the yes easy.

A sharp one sheet. Three topics with titles that sell the talk. A clear fee, stated up front.

In over 20 years around stages and events, I have never heard an organiser ask who the most talented speaker is. They ask who they can trust with their audience.

Make that answer you.

The Claude Your Way to Paid Speaking challenge gives you 30 days to build the assets that make you bookable. We start 1 September. Doors close midnight 31 August.

Comment CHALLENGE and I will send you the link.

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