Grant Baldwin is a nationally known speaker, podcaster, and author of the new book The Successful Speaker: Five Steps for Booking Gigs, Getting Paid and Building Your Platform.

Grant helps people, particularly businesses, to learn how to speak and how to use this medium to help move businesses forward. Over the last 13 years, he's helped more than half a million people in 47 different states.

In this episode, Grant Baldwin joins John Corcoran to talk about how Grant started his career in public speaking, how he came to write his book. He also shares how to overcome fear, what to do before you walk out front to speak in front of a crowd, and his 5 simple steps to make a profit from speaking.