The Speaking Advice Podcast, (by Soapboxvideo.co)

In this episode, I sit down with Nick Gold | Managing Director of Speakers Corner and one of the most respected voices in the UK speaker bureau world.

Nick co-founded Speakers Corner 25 years ago and has placed thousands of speakers with clients, building it as one of the industry's few non-exclusive bureaus. In this conversation he pulls back the curtain on exactly what bureaus are really looking for, and it's not what most speakers think.

We cover:

• Why "big stages = big fees" isn't the full story, and what actually drives your fee
• The truth about showreels, why shorter beats longer, and why you need more than one
• Fee integrity: why discounting yourself destroys your value in the market
• How to use scarcity properly, even if you're not fully booked
• What separates the speakers bureaus love working with from the ones they avoid
• Why chasing trendy topics is a trap, and how AI is already changing how clients find speakers

If you're a professional speaker trying to work out how bureaus actually think, or how to get on their radar in the first place, this one's essential listening.

In this episode, I sit down with Nick Gold, Managing Director of Speakers Corner and one of the most respected voices in the UK speaker bureau world.

Nick co-founded Speakers Corner 25 years ago and has placed thousands of speakers with clients, building it as one of the industry's few non-exclusive bureaus. In this conversation he pulls back the curtain on exactly what bureaus are really looking for and it's not what most speakers think.

We cover:

• Why "big stages = big fees" isn't the full story, and what actually drives your fee
• The truth about showreels, why shorter beats longer, and why you need more than one
• Fee integrity: why discounting yourself destroys your value in the market
• How to use scarcity properly, even if you're not fully booked
• What separates the speakers bureaus love working with from the ones they avoid
• Why chasing trendy topics is a trap, and how AI is already changing how clients find speakers

If you're a professional speaker trying to work out how bureaus actually think .

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