{"id":938,"date":"2024-10-23T18:53:17","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T18:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/talks.co\/p\/?page_id=938"},"modified":"2025-06-27T13:07:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T13:07:29","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/talks.co\/p\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"938\" class=\"elementor elementor-938\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-0e18838 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"0e18838\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-dcbcec4\" data-id=\"dcbcec4\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b4799b5 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"b4799b5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><b>About Team Talks<\/b><\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-a44ed7a elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"a44ed7a\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;stretch_section&quot;:&quot;section-stretched&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ad0b217\" data-id=\"ad0b217\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1ec8829 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"1ec8829\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" src=\"https:\/\/talks.co\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Liam-Sarah-Alex-Talks.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-200\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-280b73f elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"280b73f\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;stretch_section&quot;:&quot;section-stretched&quot;,&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f75c58f\" data-id=\"f75c58f\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-728f21d elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"728f21d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Our story\n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ad62222 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ad62222\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>I&#8217;m <a href=\"https:\/\/talks.co\/liam\">Liam Austin<\/a>, and together with my co-founders Alessandro Chisari and <a href=\"https:\/\/talks.co\/sarah\">Sarah Thorslund<\/a>, we created Talks in 2024.<\/p><p>A little about our story.<\/p><p>My fianc\u00e9e Sarah and I hosted our first virtual summit in 2015 with 35 guest speakers, media and affiliates all collaborating together to drive traffic to the event. This online event added 15,000 leads to our email list.<\/p><p>We experienced the power of stages and collaboration.<\/p><p>Since then we&#8217;ve hosted dozens of online events under the Entrepreneurs HQ brand, in collaboration with 400+ speakers, sponsors, media and 1,000s of affiliate partners. This resulted in over 100,000 leads and millions of eyeballs seeing what we do.<\/p><p>We decided we needed to create a platform to help facilitate the collaboration of show hosts and speakers.<\/p><p>Alessandro, a successful tech entrepreneur with experience building scalable software platforms, and I met in 2014 at a startup hub in Sydney.<\/p><p>After the three of us discussed the idea of how we could build this new platform, Talks was born.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-80cf88b elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"80cf88b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Our mission\n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a8011bc elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a8011bc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Our mission is to help podcast hosts and guests collaborate, to get more listeners, leads and clients.<\/p>\n<p>We know how experts struggle to get their message out to the world. We want to help experts reach more of the right people, so they can impact more lives.<\/p>\n<p>This is what drives us.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d35a734 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"d35a734\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Follow our journey<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4152c82 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4152c82\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><a style=\"transition-property: all;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/talksconnect\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Join our FB group<\/a>\u00a0where we will be sharing updates on our journey building Talks.<\/p>\n<p>You can also connect with us on LinkedIn by tapping\u00a0<a style=\"transition-property: all;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/liamaustin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Liam<\/a>,\u00a0<a style=\"transition-property: all;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/alessandrochisari\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alessandro<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a style=\"transition-property: all;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sarahthorslund\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sarah<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a question, send an email to support [at] talks.co<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Team Talks Our story I&#8217;m Liam Austin, and together with my co-founders Alessandro Chisari and Sarah Thorslund, we created Talks in 2024. 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