The Speakersbase Podcast

Today I am delighted to welcome Yasmin Vorajee to the show.   Based in Ireland, Yasmin is a bestselling author, speaker and business coach.   She helps small business owners run a profitable 20-hour week business   In this great interview, Yasmin will take you through how you can create leverage in your business, create a multiplier effect and avoid an income cap.

You will find more details about Yasmin including how to get her 20-Hour Week Game Plan in the show notes at blog.speakersbase.com.

Today I am delighted to welcome the Media Matchmaker, Rachael Taplin from Blueboo Media to the show.

Rachael is a well-known speaker, businesswoman and entrepreneur. She has recently been recognised as one of the top 50 Inspirational Women in the UK.

She is also known as The Media Match Maker, training and helping entrepreneurs and business owners to be inspired to use PR and secure publicity for themselves.

Rachael can also show you how to connect directly to the UK media and journalists.

Rachael will be sharing with you today how to secure ongoing publicity and be recognised as the expert.

In this interview, Rachael shares some great tips with us about How To Get FREE Publicity in TV, Radio and The Press.

You will find more details about Rachael and her great PR tips and resources in the show notes at blog.speakersbase.com.

Today I am joined by Soren Kristensen, CEO of Athenas, one of the world's largest speaker bureaus. Soren is also a founder at Speakersloft, a research company that generate very valuable reports for speakers and the speaking industry.   In this interview, Soren and I discuss the bureau business, why speakers should work with a bureau and when they should go it alone.   Soren also shares with us some great insights and hard truths around the best way to grow your speaking business and the characteristics of a successful speaker.

You will find more details about Soren and his companies in the show notes at blog.speakersbase.com.

We have 2 guests on the show today. Kelly Tyler & Helena Holrick of Speaker Insight.

Kelly & Helena have been working with speakers, authors & coaches for many years as they collectively have a history of running a speaker agency, a publishing house & training consultancies… and they are both speakers, authors & coaches so they understand the industry from both sides! They are passionate about helping Changemakers like you to build a business On YOUR TERMS. They find so many aren't earning enough, reaching a wide enough audience or standing out from their competition, and so they teach you how to do all of this while not burning out and still having a social life!

You will find all their details in the show notes at blog.speakersbase.com so check them out today.

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Our guest today is Andrew Eggelton.

Andrew takes Presenters from good to World Class.

With 25 years of experience on stage and in front of and behind the camera, he's crafted a unique style of Presenting.

His style stands out in its simplicity, working moment to moment with an audience.

Andrew believes that by doing this you will narrow the gap between who you really are and who you're being seen as. 

He ensures that you, the speaker knows your value in a way that's bone-deep so you can focus on connecting, creating change and taking your audience on a journey that stays with them long after you've left the stage.

You will find a link to Andrew's website and links to his great resources for speakers in the show notes at blog.speakersbase.com.

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Our guest today is Mike Clayton from OnlinePMCourses.com.

Mike is a business author and speaker, a facilitator, and a trusted advisor, with a background of integrating complex change in major national and multi-national organisations. He offers keynotes for events and conferences and also provides in-house and open workshops and seminars.

Mike is also the founder of OnlinePMCourses.com where he offers high-quality video-based Project Management training.

In this great interview, Mike shares his experience and advice about creating online courses in addition to some great speaking tips.

In this episode of the Speakersbase podcast our host Johnny welcomes Kristian Ravn from Speakersloft! Kristian does really interesting work at SpeakersLoft. They are really focused on creating more speaking industry transparency, and on this episode, he shares some fascinating statistics from his latest research. In fact, SpeakersLoft has a really interesting report coming out on the 1st of April! The International Fee Levels where they analysed more than 37,000 real deals including more than 2,700 speakers. This report will cost 89 US Dollars from the 1st of April. However, you can pre-order it today for just $39. 

Our guest today is Sudha Mani based in Scotland.

Sudha is an expert in Sales Funnel Automation and chatbots.

Sudha has 24 years of experience consulting for public, private, investment and financial services sector streamlining their processes, setting up enterprise architecture and programme management. Sudha's articles are featured in many online and offline journals.

As speakers, we tend to wear many hats. Not only have we to deliver our talk, we also have to make sure that the bookings and other sales keep coming.

This is where automation can help and Sudha is going to tell us how.

Sudha also shares her experience when it comes to recovering from a speech that goes wrong.

Sudha also has a freebie for you today and you can find more details about this in the show notes.

Our guest today is Karen O'Donnell. Not only is Karen a professional speaker, she is also a speaker coach and an expert in personal growth.   Karen helps professionals to create, refine and deliver powerful presentations. With 20 years' experience in HR and as a Personal Growth Coach, Karen can help you to enhance & grow your business through the power of effective communication.    In this great interview, Karen shares some techniques that can help us as speakers identify and remove the source of our fears.   Karen also shares her 3 golden rules when it comes to public speaking.

Create your free speaker portfolio at speakersbase.com.

This is Episode 20 and my guest today is author, speaker, coach and endurance athlete, Gerry Duffy.

Gerry has a wealth of experience when it comes to speaking, from overcoming a pathologic fear of speaking to turning into a very successful international business.

In this great interview Gerry shares a number of excellent tips that as a speaker, I am sure you will get some value from irrespective of the level you are at.

You will find a link to Gerry's website which has links to his great books in the show notes at blog.speakersbase.com.

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