A Day in The Life of a Professional Speaker

The Speaker Lab Podcast

The Speaker Lab

Authors, Public Speakers, Public Speaking, How To, Marketing, Smallbusiness, Coaching, Education, Entrepreneurship, Speaking, Business, Side Gig

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🗓️ 6 August 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

What does a day in the life of a professional speaker look like? You'll find out on today's show!

Today on The Speaker Lab, we get into how to organize your day and how to maximize your time, especially if you are growing your business on the side. Lastly, we wrap up with a look at a day in the life of a professional speaker: we walk you through what each of us does every day.

Listen in to hear all of that and more on episode 249 of The Speaker Lab.

THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:

What's the difference between being busy versus being productive?
How can you avoid the comparison trap?
What Abe Lincoln can teach us about preparation.
When is your peak energy and how do you leverage it?
Which tasks are those that actually move the needle in your speaking business?
What is the #1 thing speakers struggle with?
Why you don't need full-time employees in order to effectively delegate.
What's the value of experimenting within your business?
And so much more!

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0:00.0	Hey, friend, are you looking for ways to book more paid speaking gigs?
0:03.7	Well, of course you are.
0:04.4	Maybe you're just starting out as a speaker. You're trying to figure out what to prioritize in order to get booked and paid as quickly as possible. Listen, if that's you, I want you to join us for a free live training where you're going to learn how to create the number one marketing asset that you need to consistently book more paid gigs. This is a tool that one speaker on our team used to book over $36,000 in paid gigs before he even had a website.
0:27.2	This training is free.
0:28.1	It's live and we offered a few times a week so you can find a time that works best for you.
0:32.5	All you got to do is head over to thespeakerlab.com slash get booked.
0:36.3	That's all one word.
0:37.2	Thespeakelab.com slash get booked. That's all one word, the speakerlap.com slash get booked
0:39.3	and register right now. We look forward to seeing you on the live training.
0:50.3	Hey, it's up, Fran, Graham Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast here on episode
0:53.5	249. We are a week away from episode 250. Would that be a quarter? It's not a quarter of a century. It's two and a half centuries, right? Yeah. Math is hard, guys. Math is hard. Anyway, let's move on here. We've got a great episode for you today and really do appreciate you joining us and hanging out with us today. Today we're going to be having another co-hosted episode with Eric Ream, a successful speaker, booked and paid to speak alum and also one of our coaches inside the Speakelab program. So Eric and I are going to be talking through a day in the life of a professional speak, how to organize your day and how to make sure that you maximize your time. If you're someone who's maybe you have a full-time job and you've got a limited window to work on your speaking business, we're going to talk about what you need to be thinking through and how you can maximize that time to get the most bang for your buck in terms of building and growing your speaking business. Now, if you would like for us, myself and Eric and the rest of our coaches and team to help you in a
1:47.0	one-on-one or group setting to build and grow your speaking business, then we would love to talk with you.
1:51.7	You can go over to the speakerlab.com slash apply.
1:55.2	Again, that is the speakerlab.com slash apply.
1:58.4	And we'd love to hear from you learn more about your business, what you're working on and how you're planning to build and grow your speaking business. And if you feel stuck and you need our help, then we'd love to talk through some of the different programs that we offer and the one-on-one setting or group setting about how we can work together and help you achieve your speaking goals. So again, you can do that by going over to thespeakerlab.com slash apply,
2:18.6	the speaker lab.com slash apply. All right, let's get right into it. Here's our conversation with
2:23.2	Eric Cream, all about how to build and grow your business, how to organize your day, and a day in the
2:28.1	life of a professional speaker. Enjoy.
2:34.1	Hey, it's up, French. Graham Baldwin here. Welcome back to the Speaker Lab podcast. Today, what's up, French?
2:35.0	Graham Baldwin here.
2:35.6	Welcome back to the Speak of Lab podcast.
2:37.4	Today we are on another co-hosted episode with Eric Ream.
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