In this week's episode of Ongoing Mastery: Presenting & Speaking, Kirsten has a passionate conversation with an inspiring friend, Precious Williams, the Killer Pitch Master. Precious shares an extremely difficult time in her life and the turn-around that led to her current success atop the pitch universe. She stresses why it’s important that she trusts herself, why she wants to be respected rather than liked, and how creativity beats money.Key take-aways:You have to define yourself, rather than let others define you If you are truly serving your clients, the company name isn’t about youShare your successes so that others like you can see that pathway for themselvesRourke Training’s webpage: https://www.rourketraining.com/Ongoing Mastery: Presenting & Speaking page: https://ongoing-mastery.captivate.fm/RSS feed: https://feeds.captivate.fm/ongoing-mastery/Read a transcript of this episode: https://share.descript.com/view/PlUgdJ3PcPWFor the video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/FJEdaE5kDFI"Grown Woman," BeyoncéThe Bowery Mission Women's Center - Crisis Respite Centers - NYC HealthRatchet (slang) - WikipediaPrecious on YouTube - Precious on Instagram - Precious on Twitter - Precious on Facebook - Precious on LinkedIn - Buy all 4 of Precious’s books - Perfect Pitches by Precious website - Tammy Faye Bakker talks her infamous makeup and more on TODAY in 2000 - Rick Fuller, professional wrestling champion | WikipediaPrecious's Babson TEDx - America's Real Deal - The Lifeline and 988 : Suicide and Crisis LifelineHome | Innovation WomenLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirstenrourke/Looking for a kick-ass speaking group? Use our affiliate link to join Innovation Women: https://bit.ly/innovationwomen