What do you think is the point of all these Guest Speaker gigs that Harry keeps doing? Like the book deal summit for example. Does he get paid or is it comped by some agency or organization that he represents on that day for that cause? Who are his agents? He isnt particularly bright, so what the motivation of the event organizers when they invite him?
This particular event, for example, had other more famous, legit speakers. It's been going for a few years and it's not like they need Harry for publicity. So the only one who benefits here is Harry and his wannabe influencer brand. With that in mind, do you think he pays the event managers to get a slot, any slot where he can speak and be seen long enough to get a People magazine article out of it?
I recently glanced at the Archwell impact reports for 2023 that came out and according to those there were no costs on record for fundraising activities at all. There were however event charges and management charges filed under "other costs". Could this be payments to agents who arranged these gigs? Or the costs producing this content that then goes into magazines and other media that they collaborate with? (It wasn't called as such in the report)
Another interesting part in that report was that nearly all their projects/grants were for Afghan women centres. Nothing about Harry's causes veterans/disinformation. So anything that Harry is doing for that is clearly being paid for by someone else, if not he himself (which is hard to imagine).
Invictus pays for the veteran related gigs but where does this online safety and misinformation related work get him money from?
Im pretty sure they are making money from somewhere, at least Harry is but where from?
What do you think is the point of all these Guest Speaker gigs that Harry keeps doing?
Like the book deal summit for example. Does he get paid or is it comped by some agency or organization that he represents on that day for that cause?
He's paid for it. His travel is either comped by the organization hosting the event or written off as a business expense for tax purposes.
He signed with the Harry Walker Agency in 2020. I don't think he's there any longer because he isn't on the website; however, Meghan is still listed as a Harry Walker client.
I'm guessing now Harry does everything through BetterUp.
He isnt particularly bright, so what the motivation of the event organizers when they invite him?
This particular event, for example, had other more famous, legit speakers. It's been going for a few years and it's not like they need Harry for publicity. So the only one who benefits here is Harry and his wannabe influencer brand. With that in mind, do you think he pays the event managers to get a slot, any slot where he can speak and be seen long enough to get a People magazine article out of it?
Harry by himself (aka no Meghan) is actually a pretty desirable 'get' in the motivational speaker community. He's more likable than Meghan, he actually has the title and the royal blood, and his press coverage is pretty decent and actually has a far reach.
I recently glanced at the Archwell impact reports for 2023 that came out and according to those there were no costs on record for fundraising activities at all.
Fundraising costs wouldn't be in an impact report. They're in the tax records.
There were however event charges and management charges filed under "other costs". Could this be payments to agents who arranged these gigs?
Actor's agents, managers, and teams get their fees from the actor's pay. So for instance, an actor with an agent, a manager, a publicist, and a lawyer has to pay them first before anything goes into his pocket. The agent might take 5%, the manager 8%, the publicist 4%, the lawyer 8%. So the actor's actual take-home pay for the gig is only 75% of the salary he was quoted on his contract.
I know absolutely nothing about how talent fees for motivational speakers work, but I assume it's similar; the booking agent would take their "finder's fee" out of Harry's pay.
Maybe someone else can chime in here.
Or the costs producing this content that then goes into magazines and other media that they collaborate with? (It wasn't called as such in the report)
Could be. I'd have to see their annual budget to be sure, because an impact report is only going to go into general expenses to appease stakeholders and donors.
Another interesting part in that report was that nearly all their projects/grants were for Afghan women centres. Nothing about Harry's causes veterans/disinformation.
Harry's causes don't work through Archewell. He does that work through other organizations.
So anything that Harry is doing for that is clearly being paid for by someone else, if not he himself (which is hard to imagine). Invictus pays for the veteran related gigs but where does this online safety and misinformation related work get him money from?
The online safety campaign is being spun as a mental health crisis, which is BetterUp.
Misinformation/disinformation is the Aspen Institute. Harry is a member of their Commission on Information Disorder. (At least as of 2021, he was.)
Im pretty sure they are making money from somewhere, at least Harry is but where from?
Speaker fees, investment income from their trusts, and their content deals. Harry is also making money from his polo games - his appearance fees for polo are supposed to go to charity but I wouldn't be surprised if he takes a cut for his pocket and keeps any cash prizes that come with winning. When Meghan is also at polo, she is also likely charging an appearance fee to be there (if the rumros from Summer 2018 still hold true).
Meghan is also making money from her merching of clothes and accessories (the brand pays her to be photographed in them). She is also likely taking cash from her paparazzi photos (she tells them where to be and in return, they give her a cut of their sales).
And a few of us have discussed it here before, but I'll say it again: they're also probably making money from scraping the data of website visitors to Archewell and Sussex Royal and selling them. It's a profitable (if not very ethical) business in tech these days. (So you should always assume that not only is every website you go to is scraping your data and selling it everywhere, but your info is all over the deep web and in Chinese and Russian hands.)
