Want a huge payoff? Value yourself

I just passed through the kitchen while my husband was talking on the phone to a friend of ours. She's a highly qualified professional (a psychologist, actually) with decades of experience giving talks to audiences of all sizes, yet as a single mother with two children she struggles to make ends meet.

Speaking is her passion and she spends more time on it than she does with clients in her office practice. Audiences rave about her work and she has so many community speaking invitations that s...