There actually arenāt that many. A few lads get bungs from far right nut job hedge funder types or digger barons, but there is absolutely no way Brian O Driscoll pulled six figures for a talk unless sheās counting the 50p at the end.
PS I was reliably informed that back when that welch rubby ref monetised being white collar gay, he was regularly getting 4k for a speech from a well known oirish accountancy franchise whilst giving the goys the benefit of the doubt repeatedly in the six nations events.
I suspect nucifora was behind it all.
Iām no businessman
Iām blown away, absolutely blown away that Brian OāDriscoll commands over 100k for 6 hours work
But fair play to him if he can get it
I believe you
Heād give it all up for an SC Medal
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100k to hear a rubby player speak about building up to fail every 4 years 
Me bollix.
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Your mother was a hamster
I fart in your general deereckshun
I havenāt seen one yet this year.
I always keep a look outā¦
Saw two out there about four days ago. A great sight.
Out where?
Out at the parents house near moycullen (not that near)
Why would they be flying Scottish flags in Moycullen?
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We had a sales kick off last week, the first at our company (Japanese multi national) since before Covid. Weāre under pressure in a contracting industry and there has been fuck all expenditure on anything peripheral for years. So imagine our surprise when we had a full on, pretty deadly kick off where actual money was spent on a great venue, food and even speakers.
We had this health and mindfulness chap come in. Iām like ffs, this should be shite, but he was really good. Not mental, seemed actually sane and not spouting cliches and shite. Had us all breathing deeply and worked on a theme of using your life to create smiles. I thought he was great.
We paid him $4000 for 1 hour in front of 300 people.
On the other hand, my boss brought in a consultant from Singapore heās worked with previously who is an expert in channel sales. He worked with us for 4 days, though he was preparing this for a couple of months. As weāre setting out on a new channel sales strategy, his insights were important. He cost 6 figures.
I can tell you Brian OāDriscoll is not getting 6 figures for a morning.
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I think it must be tricky for these media personalities/celebrities & ex sportspeople to settle on how they market themselves to get on the corporate speaking gravy train.
Do you hone in one specific area & try to become the go to person? Bressie went with depression but surely thereās only so many times you can go around the Bank of Ireland, Deloitte, Arthur Cox block?
Others are trying to tick a load of different boxes in their marketing spiel & hoping that one or more pieces of shit stick in somebodyās inbox.
Excellence in field 
Strategies to deliver high performance
Leadership
Resilience
Managing Change
Team dynamics
Mental challenges, general health & well being
Transformation
Ideally you would have performed internationally in a team environment, overcome a serious setback or two (injury, high profile loss?) to subsequently win stuff, struggled with adapting to retirement post career & went through some inner turmoil before emerging stronger to launch a new, second career, i.e., charging 5 (or 6 [six]) figure sums to corporates.
Ah stop @Fitzy
A lad on the other side of the world, in a different business, struggling for years still spent 4grand on some nobody wellness guy so a company coining it here and bringing all their staff away for a week long working holiday in a fancy portuguese resort cant fuck a load of cash at an actual celebrity* speaker?
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That last line was iconic.
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