Sarah Fejfar
Entrepreneurs get stuck. They want to host an event, but they can't picture how they alone could hold a stage for a whole day. Much less three. Actually, it's more simple than it looks in Inside today's episode, I have three hacks to help you see the possibilities for your next event. Inquiring minds want to know, how are entrepreneurs like us daring bravely to build a stage? Ditch the sweat of hands and step up to the mic? How do we create our own transformative events? So we can get our message out into the world in a bigger way that's not only profitable, but it's actually something we can be proud. That's the question. And the answers are inside this podcast. My name is therapy for welcome to Green Room Central.
Sarah Fejfar
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Sarah Fejfar
A lot of people struggle. Their businesses owners, they're super successful. They have courses, they have a membership, they teach all the time, but they get really hung up when they they go to want to host an event, especially like a multi day event.
Sarah Fejfar
And I think the hang up typically gets in the space of cash, what would I teach? How would I feel all that time, and then they kind of spiral into this place where they want to bring on all of their friends as guest presenters. And it becomes this just big like, like, talk fest, and no one's going to any level of depth because they don't have time.
Sarah Fejfar
And that's no fun for your guests. They really want depth and they want it with you.
Sarah Fejfar
Because you're the person who speaks the way that they they hear and you're the one who teaches the way that they need to learn. And so I want to really help you get over that hump of how would I feel the time? What would an agenda look like, and these are hacks, this is going to get you there fast, if that's what you're looking for. And I've got three of them for you today. And we're gonna move really fast through them. So that you can get into action. Alright, so pick one of these, like, listen to all of them. And then think about like, hey, does this one feel like this might be the right fit for me, not each, each of them aren't going to be a fit for everyone.
Sarah Fejfar
So hack, number one is the post it note hack.
Sarah Fejfar
And I call this like a brainstorming trick, really, I love to just grab a stack of post it notes and a Sharpie marker and a blank wall and stand up with a timer. And just like write on the post it notes and stick them on the wall in any order. In fact, no order is best at this time. And when your timer goes off, maybe give yourself 10 minutes, then you stand in front of the wall. And you kind of arrange them in the order that it feels like it makes the most sense to to teach them.
Sarah Fejfar
Does that make sense?
Sarah Fejfar
So you you really can get to replace pretty quickly where you're able to fill the time. And then you just kind of like assign some time times to each of those and kind of feel if you know like, you know, figure out how much time you've gotten in a day and kind of look at all those posts that have time stamps on them. And you know, you block in your your breaks and your lunch, you're ready to rock and roll. So that's Hack number one, that's the post it note hack.
Sarah Fejfar
Alright, so the second hack that I have for you is the name each day of the event hack.
Sarah Fejfar
So this hack really is about creating a mini framework. And people love frameworks, they love them because they help them organize their thoughts and help them get there. It helps them understand where you're going within the event and where they're at. And in that kind of framework in so where they know kind of a little bit about what's next and how far they're going to go. And it really helps for organizing like in note taking. And it people just love to have a sense of like place in perspective and a framework accomplishes that. So let's say you have a three day event.
Sarah Fejfar
And for example, maybe I'll use Live Event Academy is an example. Day one would be picture it day two would be planet and day three would be produce it. Those are the three highest level levels of the framework that we we use within live and Academy, which is the world class event framework. And, and then there's kind of like subtopics under each of those buckets, if you will, but then we kind of have a name for each of those days. And I bet that you have a framework already in your business. And could you go to kind of like the top level of that framework and named each day? And then that would help, kind of with your brainstorming in terms of like, what would fall on that day one? What would fall on that day? To what what makes sense then on day three? So that's my hack number two, which is the name the day of the event hack.
Sarah Fejfar
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Sarah Fejfar
Let's move on to hack number three. So I call this the course hack.
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And sometimes, it's just easiest. If you take your flagship course, and you turn it into a live event and hold up before you say, Wait, Sarah, I sell that thing. For a premium price, I don't want to just give it all away in an event setting. And I will tell you straight away, you will not be giving away all of your trade secrets if you choose to teach your event as if it's like your course. So hold on being open, have an open mind for this one. So the course had, you would take one of your courses and and then you would make each block on the agenda, one of the modules from your course. And so again, three day event, in this scenario, what I'd love for you to do is like start with placing in the brakes and the lunches. And when you know you want to stop for the day, if there's any other kind of like blocks for your offer. And so kind of like mark off all of the time that isn't available. And then you'll probably find that you've got these nice little chunks of like an hour here, an hour and a half here. And then you just kind of like number them circle kind of like put a box around them and put a number in each one. And I bet you you will get pretty close to the number of modules in your flagship course. And then what you'll do is you'll just teach, you'll teach the exact same way that you would have in your course, except you're doing this live.
Sarah Fejfar
And because it's live, you're gonna teach a whole lot less. And of course, you're not going to be giving out all of the tools and the checklists, and the guides and all of the deep dive stuff that kind of goes around it, you're going to be teaching at that very highest level because you need time in there to be asking rhetorical questions of the audience to be asking him Hey, are you are you tracking with me? Do you have this? Like, I want you to be writing these three things and down in your notebook right now. You're going to be wanting to leave time for them to you know, like turn to your neighbor and tell me like,
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What was your big biggest takeaway?
Sarah Fejfar
Or what do you need help with let's get into a small group and take 15 minutes and each person share what their what they've learned what they need help with. And, and so all of that takes up time. And I think you can see here how if you use that course framework to plan out your event agenda, you will not be giving away all of your material, your best material for free, but it becomes this really amazing live experience live embodiment of your flagship course.
Sarah Fejfar
So I hope that helps you I hope that those three hacks at least got the the juices flowing for how you could as the the the Expert as the thought leader, like hold space on a stage for more than just, you know, an hour long webinar, you have it inside of you to spend a day, a full day, a full two days, a full three or four days on stage with no other speaker, guest speakers. Just you, I promise you that you have it in you.
Sarah Fejfar
And I hope that these three hacks that I gave you for brainstorming what an agenda could look like for a multi day event scenario like that. I hope these three hacks helped you, like have a little peek into what that could look like for you and got you a little bit more excited about putting an event like that on your calendar to host for your community because gosh knows they would love to see you putting something out there to gather them together live because they want to learn new content from you.
Sarah Fejfar
They want to gather in community with you,
Sarah Fejfar
and they want to feel more connected to you.
Sarah Fejfar
And this is going to be the way to make that habit.
Sarah Fejfar
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Sarah Fejfar
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Sarah Fejfar
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Sarah Fejfar
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