In just 5 months, Chris Baldwin was named the fastest growing speaker in 2018 and the #1 in the top 10 speakers in the Netherlands. He now charges upwards of $15,000 for each keynote engagement and has been the speaker of choice for Google, Microsoft, and many other Fortune 500 companies. Chris shares the mindset and steps he took along this journey to become a top keynote speaker.

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Victor Ahipene: Speaking nation, what’s happening? Welcome to another episode of public speaking secrets. I’m your host Victor Ahipene, and we’ve got the second part with second part of this episode with Chris Baldwin, who is being on a meteoric rise in the speaking world. And if you haven’t checked out the first part of this two part series and I highly recommend there are some absolute gold nuggets, nuggets in there for everyone who has an aspiring or currently successful speaker to be able to leverage and grow a really effectively, some really, really, uh, awesome things that I’ve actually taken down myself that I’ll be moving forward. So welcome back, Chris.

Chris Baldwin: Thanks Victor. Thanks for having back.

Victor Ahipene: Well, I wanted to touch on today, uh, we spoke about last week your, you’re different mindsets and we could only really just touch on them. So I wanted to deep dive a bit more into, you said you’ve got seven mindsets of a speaker and I’d love it if you could share with our audience, uh, you know, either all of those or you know, whatever you have the at the time to, to share with us with.

Chris Baldwin: Yeah. So, you know, when I started, ah, as a professional speaker, literally trying to build a career through speaking or at least you speaking as a vehicle, as a medium to build a business, to build a consultancy, to build whatever, whatever’s behind the speaking. Because it’s never about speaking itself. Speaking is just a channel on how to communicate. It’s about, you know, why you speaking in the first place. And um, and you know, I decided I’m a strategist and I like, um, I understand that life is all about choices. You know, there’s only two things you have to do in life. You can’t get out of two things and one of them is die. We all have to die. And you know, there are, there are silicon valley startups to solve for that problem. Yeah. Uh, you know, eventually we’re going to be uploading the cloud and be immortalized and all of that. Yup. Um, and the other one is make choices. You can’t get out and making choices. And even if you don’t choose, you still make me a choice. You’re choosing for someone else to choose for you. And that my tedtalk is actually the choice is yours. It’s all about this. It’s all about the choices we make when we adopt the technology into our lives and our organizations. And this is our choice. You know, we complain about Facebook taking too much of our time, but it’s our choice, our choice to spend time on Facebook. And I’m, when you can start to realize that everything comes down to choices, then sort of what turned into my head was, well, if I can choose, most of the time when we slow down, it’s, it’s our inability to choose. And so we outsource that to somebody else. And then that makes us unhappy because someone else is controlling us. But what if we could I actually have a framework, a decision making framework that helps us choose very quickly. Do I say yes? Do I say no? Do I go left? Do I go right? And then all of a sudden it becomes very clear and you get clarity in your mind and you know that whatever, whatever choices you make, it adheres to these, to these values, these beliefs that you have. And so this, I developed the seven mindsets of this as a decision making framework to help me