Originally Posted by
Justfor1 
I was wondering how one becomes one of those guru speakers who travel around to big meetings throughout the country?
I have asked several ex-circuit speakers how they got in the game. They all sought out sponsors who were involved in circuit speaking and asked them to mentor them for that purpose.
If you look at the sponsorship lineage of all of the popular circuit speakers you will find many who have Clancy I. Don P. or Chuck C. in their Heritage Tree somewhere.