David is the founder of the Lavin Agency, an intellectual talent agency that represents speakers, authors, journalists, researchers and, in general, super quirky people. Full disclosure: David is my speaking agent, which is how I know him.

We’ll hear David’s story of how, as a twenty something, he talked his way into millions of dollars of advertising from Canada’s biggest newspaper. How he spent 30+ years building his business by pursuing what he thought was interesting and how COVID-19 took his entire industry apart in less than three weeks.