The Speaker Lab Podcast

Narrowing down and focusing on your speaking topic is can be one of the harder aspects of speaking.

Here to help ease that process is David Newman. David is a professional speaker who also coaches other speakers, and all-around great guy!

Today on The Speaker Lab, we talk about everything from speaking fees, the NSA and demo videos. He even walks us through a specific exercise to find the right topic that has speaking opportunities within it. Be sure to join us and hear it all on episode 281 of The Speaker Lab.

THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:  

• Do we often teach what we ourselves need to learn?
• How did he narrow his topic down from 30 potential options?
• What it means if nobody else is talking about your subject matter.
• Why actively choosing our own niche is a powerful privilege.
• How do you know if there is a market for your topic?
• Why it's necessary to pivot throughout your career.
• Can you have both depth and variety in your speaking offerings?
• Why speaking is the new marketing.
• And so much more!

EPISODE RESOURCES

• David Newman's web site
• Do It! Speaking by David Newman
• Companion tools and downloads for Do It! Speaking
• David Newman on Twitter
• The Successful Speaker, by Grant Baldwin
• Get Free Speaker Resources
• Book a Call with The Speaker Lab
• Calculate Your Speaking Fee
• Join The Speaker Lab Community on Facebook
• Subscribe on Apple Podcasts
• Subscribe on Spotify
• Read show transcripts here

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Grant Baldwin and Vinh Giang hosted a Facebook Live to talk about how speakers and magicians can adapt to delivering virtual experiences in unprecedented times.

During the live stream, in addition to a live magic trick, Grant and Vinh discuss:

• How a state-mandated shutdown impacts live performers
• Identifying audience categories and how to serve them
• Assuming a position of generosity as a strategic investment
• Putting relationships first
• Accepting the new normal of virtual events
• The opportunity to redefine webinar experiences and improve the quality
• How do you have conversations with event planners to explore virtual options
• Your audience still has the same needs now that they had before a crisis
• How to help clients deliver value to their audiences through virtual
• Role-playing a client call with someone interested in learning about virtual event options
• Production value is under-estimated for virtual presenters
• The indispensable value of being so good they can’t ignore you
• How to stand out from the crowd
• Hidden innovations to uncover in the midst of trials
• Fostering audience engagement through interactive technology
• The only 2 things you can control
• And more

EPISODE RESOURCES

• VinhGiang.com/virtual
• So Good They Can’t Ignore You, by Cal Newport
• Get Free Speaker Resources
• Book a Call with The Speaker Lab
• Calculate Your Speaking Fee
• Join The Speaker Lab Community on Facebook
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Grant Baldwin and Brian Fanzo (from iSocialFanz.com) hosted a Facebook Live to talk about how speakers can best use technology in this current climate.

During the live stream, Grant and Brian discuss:

• Leveraging technology and social media to grow your speaking business
• Starting a podcast to supplement your speaking and increase your audience
• How to use virtual options to replace in-person meetings
• Reinventing digital meeting experience with the distracted attendee in mind
• The challenge event planners face in moving or redesigning large-scale events
• Take a beat and remember the groundwork you’ve put in that will last beyond a crisis
• Don’t sacrifice long-term wins for short-term gains
• Getting creative in responding to canceled or postponed events
• The importance of being transparent (and why it’s different from over-sharing)
• Alternative options besides being on stage that speakers can do well
• How do you think about pricing for virtual speaking gigs?

EPISODE RESOURCES

• Digital Futurist
• iSocialFanz
• Get Free Speaker Resources
• Book a Call with The Speaker Lab
• Calculate Your Speaking Fee
• Join The Speaker Lab Community on Facebook
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Grant Baldwin and Jane Atkinson (from Speaker Launcher) host a Facebook Live to talk about how speakers can deal with the current changes in the industry.

During the live stream, Grant and Jane discuss:

• Being aware your mindset
• Intentionally limiting your intake of the news and social media
• Balancing negative and positive influences
• Taking the opportunity to learn something new
• Importance of diversifying your booking strategies
• Asking bureaus to pay your compensation in advance
• High demand for meeting space and venues shifting to Fall 2020
• New opportunities in the marketplace
• Focusing on what you can control vs what you can't
• Avoiding a scarcity mindset and look for opportunities
• The difference between speakers who weather the storm vs those who bail out
• What it means to be a #FocusedHustler
• Proactively check on your clients and ask how you can serve
• Use extra time to build on the basics of your speaking business (that you might be avoiding otherwise)
• Explore remote/virtual event options

EPISODE RESOURCES:

• The Wealthy Speaker 2.0, by Jane Atkinson
• The Epic Keynote, by Jane Atkinson
• Get Free Speaker Resources
• Book a Call with The Speaker Lab
• Calculate Your Speaking Fee
• Join The Speaker Lab Community on Facebook
• Subscribe on Apple Podcasts
• Subscribe on Spotify

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Grant Baldwin and Erick Rheam hosted a Facebook Live to talk about how coronavirus has impacted the speaking industry and how you can thrive in the midst of crisis. During the live stream, Grant and Erick discuss:

• How to process times of crisis
• The importance of managing cashflow
• Be flexible and proactive with event planners
• Challenges of rescheduling and postponing events
• Creating value and security with event planners through patience
• How airlines are setting an example for customer service
• Remember that speaking is a relationship business
• Experiment with alternate presenting options to save gigs
• How the size and frequency of event types will change
• What’s a good way to suggest virtual speaking engagements?

EPISODE RESOURCES:

• How to Thrive In a Crisis with Erick Rheam
• Virtual Workshop with Vinh Giang
• How to Become a Virtual Speaker with Terry Brock
• Get Free Speaker Resources
• Book a Call with The Speaker Lab
• Calculate Your Speaking Fee
• Join The Speaker Lab Community on Facebook
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Speakers are feeling fearful right now, and to help ease that we're talking about how to thrive in a crisis.

Joining us to talk about this unique time is Erick Rheam, our Director of Student Success at The Speaker Lab and also a well-respected speaker in his own right.

On this episode of The Speaker Lab, we're going to help you deal with the COVID-19 crisis and future challenges you may face in the speaking industry. Erick lays out four points to mitigating the impact of any crisis as he learned during his time in the armed forces.

1. Secure the perimeter

• Ensure you and your family are safe.
• Engage in medical professionals and local authorities' recommended guidelines.
• Ensure you are following proper protocol for safe social distancing.
• Take stock of your finances.
• Finalize potential gigs.
• Continue reaching out for future gigs.

2. Evaluate your business. Now is the time to evaluate, learn, think and pause. Ask yourself questions like:

• How do I make money speaking?
• How will that change as a result of this crisis (and does it need to change)?
• What online courses can I promote?
• Can I work on that book I’ve wanted to write?
• What virtual training gigs can I secure?

3. Gain Perspective.

• Keep the big picture in mind.
• Try to limit your information and be careful of your sources.
• Practice gratitude.
• Opportunities will present themselves, look for them.
• Be flexible and be open to change.

4. Enjoy these moments.

• We are creating unprecedented memories now.
• Slow down, look around and take in the good.
• Be a good human: be patient and be kind.
• Journal your thoughts.
• Serve others.

EPISODE RESOURCES

• The Successful Speaker, by Grant Baldwin
• Get Free Speaker Resources
• Book a Call with The Speaker Lab
• Calculate Your Speaking Fee
• Join The Speaker Lab Community on Facebook
• Subscribe on Apple Podcasts
• Subscribe on Spotify
• Read show transcripts here

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Our guest today, Srini Rao, runs the site and podcast called The Unmistakable Creative. He's also a prolific best-selling author and sought-after international keynote speaker.

Today, he joins The Speaker Lab to talk about his speaking journey, how he pitches a broad topic like creativity to companies and how he balances the business side of being an artist.

This is a far-reaching conversation, be sure to join us on episode 280 of The Speaker Lab to hear it all!

THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:  

• Has his podcast helped him garner speaking gigs?
• When do bureaus approach you about working with them?
• Why does he have two emails?
• What is essential to every brand and business online?
• Where should conferences be held?
• What is one of the things he asks every potential client?
• Why he always get referrals, and you should too.
• What is an OKR and why is it one of the most effective filters he has used?
• And so much more!

EPISODE RESOURCE:

• The Unmistakable Creative web site
• The Unmistakable Creative podcast
• Srini Rao on Twitter
• An Audience of One, by Srini Rao
• Unmistakable, by Srini Rao
• Make More Art, by Srini Rao (free ebook)
• ROI of Creativity At Work, by Srini Rao (free report)
• Extreme Revenue Growth, by Victor Cheng
• This Is Your Path to The $1,000-Per-Hour Mindset, by Joshua Lee
• The Successful Speaker, by Grant Baldwin
• Get Free Speaker Resources
• Book a Call with The Speaker Lab
• Calculate Your Speaking Fee
• Join The Speaker Lab Community on Facebook
• Subscribe on Apple Podcasts
• Subscribe on Spotify
• Read show transcripts here

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Here to tell us how passion can fuel your speaking success, and why you don't need to climb Mount Everest or win a gold medal first, is Kindra Hall.

Kindra is a successful keynote speaker who has exploded on the speaking circuit in the last few years. On today's The Speaker Lab, you'll hear how passionate Kindra is about speaking, and how you can be a great speaker even if you don't have any special skills or experiences.

We cover those areas, plus a lot more on this show. So get ready to take some notes and join us for The Speaker Lab with Kindra Hall!

THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:

• What three things do you need in place to embark on your speaking career?
• Where do you start if you have no experience?
• How do you find people who want to hear your message?
• Why speaking for free was important to her early success.
• How do you know if you are meant to do this?
• What to do once you start building momentum and how to keep it going.
• Do bureaus create demand or manage it?
• What are the pros and cons of being a female speaker?
• And so much more!

EPISODE RESOURCES

• Kindra Hall's web site
• Kindra Hall on Twitter
• Kindra Hall on Instagram
• Kindra Hall on Facebook
• Stories That Stick, by Kindra Hall
• The Successful Speaker, by Grant Baldwin
• Bonuses from the book
• Get Free Speaker Resources
• Book a Call with The Speaker Lab
• Calculate Your Speaking Fee
• Join The Speaker Lab Community on Facebook
• Subscribe on Apple Podcasts
• Subscribe on Spotify
• Read show transcripts here

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Ever wonder how successful speakers are managing the highs and lows of speaking? Mitch Joel can tell us and he's here to do just that for today's The Speaker Lab.

Mitch is a returning guest (previously on episode 144) who came back to cover everything from the value of building relationships with other speakers to managing the highs and lows of this career path to the importance of making friends with other speakers.

You're going to learn all of that and more when you join us for episode 278 of The Speaker Lab!

THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:  

• How do you stay ahead of your competitors?
• Why saying yes is key to being a great speaker.
• Why what you do this year does not provide any guarantees next year.
• When being good enough is okay.
• How are speakers like coffee?
• What is one question he asks himself with every speaking engagement?
• Why the audience's show and the speaker's show are two different experiences.
• And so much more! 

EPISODE RESOURCES

• Mitch Joel's web site
• Six Pixels of Separation web site
• Mitch Joel on Twitter
• The Successful Speaker, by Grant Baldwin
• Episode 144 of The Speaker Lab
• Get Free Speaker Resources
• Book a Call with The Speaker Lab
• Calculate Your Speaking Fee
• Join The Speaker Lab Community on Facebook
• Subscribe on Apple Podcasts
• Subscribe on Spotify

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To commemorate the official launch of my book, The Successful Speaker, my friend and co-author of the book, Jeff Goins, is here!

On this edition of The Speaker Lab, Jeff and I talk about the book writing process for The Successful Speaker: Five Steps For Booking Gigs, Getting Paid, and Building Your Platform. We also give you a behind the scenes look at the making of this book, how this journey began with a joke (!) and how working on this book actually helped Jeff's speaking career.

Join us and you'll find out all of that and so much more on episode 277 of The Speaker Lab with Jeff Goins.

THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:  

• Why did we decide to co-brand The Successful Speaker?
• How do you find the right voice for your book?
• Why writing like you speak is terrible advice.
• What types of collaborations are there between writers and authors?
• Why did Jeff want to try ghostwriting after writing 5 of his own very successful books?
• What is the one word that will tell you a book is most likely written by a ghostwriter?
• Would Jeff change anything about the book?
• Who was our secret hero of writing this book?
• And so much more!

EPISODE RESOURCES

• The Successful Speaker, by Grant Baldwin
• Bonuses from the book
• Jeff Goins' web site
• Jeff Goins on Twitter
• Get Free Speaker Resources
• Book a Call with The Speaker Lab
• Calculate Your Speaking Fee
• Join The Speaker Lab Community on Facebook
• Subscribe on Apple Podcasts
• Subscribe on Spotify
• Read show transcripts here

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