In this podcast, I interview the world-class speaker Mark Leruste - the show’s first repeat guest - about how he managed to increase his speaker fee from £500 to £15,000 over 10 years. There are some absolute pearls of wisdom that you can definitely put into action to help increase your fee too. This may be the conversation you needed to hear to find the confidence to raise your fees. Enjoy!

Find out more about Mark here

and more about me here.

n this episode, I sit down with Simone Vincenzi, speaker, entrepreneur, and co-founder of GTEx and the Speaker Awards.

Connect with him here on linkedin.

See his site here.

We dive deep into what it really takes to build a successful speaking career: the reps, the failures, the free gigs, and the mindset behind becoming genuinely great on stage.

Simone shares how he went from working in restaurants with broken English to delivering over 2,000 talks, hosting events for legends like Les Brown, and building a multi-6-figure business through speaking.

We also unpack:

• Why most speakers never improve
• The truth about speaking for free
• How to “speak to sell” without sounding salesy
• Webinar strategies that actually convert
• The psychology behind persuasive presentations
• How to turn talks into coaching clients, consulting work, and paid opportunities

In this episode, Alex Panayotou shares how she managed to build a thriving speaking career over the last decade or so.

Find out more about her here.

In this episode, we dive deep into how to deal with nerves. When speaking on stage, Laurence has some real wisdom to share in this area.

Follow him on LinkedIn here.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurencesnell/

In this podcast, we go into the strategy and attitude that Alex Atherton has used to become an award-winning speaker in the last few years.

Find out more about him here

and contact him on LinkedIn here

Contact me on LinkedIn here

Do you want to know what the red flags of some of the biggest speaker bureaus in the world are? And how you can absolutely nail your pre-booking call? And make sure you get booked time and time again by the same speaking bureau. Well, if so, listen to this podcast interview with Dan Risner, the Managing Director of Leading Authorities Speaker Bureau.   

Contact Dan here..

Find out more about Leading Authorities here.

Think how many people are searching for a speaker just like you regularly, but they're not finding you because your website doesn't rank well on Google. Well, that can be fixed using SEO from experts like Jonah Jones, who's on today's podcast to tell us how we can transform our likelihood of being discovered by search.

Discover more about him here, or contact him at [email protected]

Discover more about us, Soapbox video here. We create videos such as speaking reels or demo reels and videos for socials that get speakers booked.

If you are a speaker how can working with speaking bureaus win you work and earn you money 

Well in this episode we talk about exactly that with bureau owner Adam Levitt 

Contact Adam on Linkedin here

and see his website here

Ex hostage negotiator and speaker Nigel Taberner tells us how to negotiate with speaker bookers to make sure we get paid as much as you possibly can.

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See Nigel's website here

In this episode I talk with world class speaking coach Karl Brown. We discuss how to prepare for your talk effectively, so that it's one your audience doesn't forget. How to make sure your communication is not wooden. And many more gems of wisdom.