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NICHOLAS BOOTHMAN
evening as we passed the control gates and headed
north on Paradise Road. I’d flown in from Oslo via
Paris. I spoke there yesterday.
"You're speaking today?”
“Tomorrow," I said, dialing my wife to let her know
I’d landed okay. Motivational Speakers are paid in full
in advance, that’s the good news. Missing an
engagement through weather and flight cancellations
can be a costly catastrophe and the stuff of a speaker’
s
nightmares - that’s the bad news. That’s why I arrive a
day early when I can.
“Back straight away after?” The driver caught my
eye in the mirror.
“Next day. I don’t do red-eyes.”
"'I'll make sure to remember that, Mr. Boothman.
No red-eyes for you.'"
This was my sixth speaking engagement in Las
Vegas this year. There are no direct flights back to
Toronto after two in the afternoon. Flying via Atlanta
or Dallas and arriving home at 9 in the morning. Been
there, done that. Not again.
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