Confessions of a Professional Speaker Dealing With COVID Featuring Phil Jones

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🗓️ 9 April 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Grant Baldwin and Phil Jones hosted a Facebook Live to talk about the true confessions of a professional speaker dealing with the impact of COVID-19.

During the live stream, Grant and Phil discuss:

Rescheduling or canceling 27 events
Where do new event scheduling start coming from
How does the market react and build on the other side of this crisis
Using new technology and trying new things
Taking advantage of the opportunity to serve past clients
Finding joy in the gift of time to refocus priorities and spend time with family
Leaning into new revenue streams and discovering new ways to distribute value
Navigating schedule conflicts for Fall events with postponed Spring events
Creating custom programming for events now instead of rescheduling
Helping clients address the needs and fears of their customers
Showing up in the moment and modeling generosity
Maintaining the integrity of your speaking business long-term
What speakers have in common with 5-star Michelin chefs
Building a speaking business so that you’re not living month-to-month
How speakers are actually running two different businesses simultaneously
Discovering gifts and opportunity amidst the crisis
What you have permission to do now that you didn’t before
Inventing a new business model the creates recurring income
The Cupcake analogy
Redefining what success looks like now and thinking about your business in a different way
Why you need “resume points” on the other side of this crisis
And 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.
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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.
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0:38.8	booked and register right now. We look forward to seeing you on the live training.
0:53.5	Hey, what's our friend? Grasolab, I'm welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. Hope you're doing well. Hope you're having a great day. This is another one of these bonus episodes. We're trying to bring a lot of these to you right now as speakers are just trying to process what's going on in the world and how to adapt and pivot their businesses. And so today we're talking with my friend Phil Jones. We've had Phil on the podcast a couple times.
1:11.1	So definitely go back, listen to those episodes. Today we're talking about what Phil is doing. He's actually quarantined with his family over in the UK. And so we talk about how he's been pivoting, thinking about his business, some of the different changes he's making, just kind of where his heads out in the process. We also, this is really important. And then we also compare notes on hair care products.
1:28.9	So, which if you haven't seen me before i don't have any hair so it's a it's fun conversation you're going to enjoy let's jump right into this conversation with uh phil m jones enjoy it was our friends graham baldwin here hope you guys are doing well hope you've had a a great start to your week so far. Today I'm joined by my friend Phil Jones, who has some of the best hair in all of speaking land. So, Phil, how are you, man? I've been growing it specifically for this quarantine thing and then letting the facial hair thing go as well. It's quite a liberating experience, but Grant, good to be here. Thanks for having
2:01.0	me. I've found that a lot of speakers are like, hey, I don't have any gigs coming up. This is a chance for me to just kind of experiment with some of my hairstyles or facial hair, that sort of thing. I'm keeping my own consistent look here. You're keeping the same hairstyle? You didn't think about getting created.
2:15.4	No, this is not the moment for that.
2:17.4	I just stick with what I know.
2:19.8	And this works well for me.
2:20.8	So, uh, same hairstyle you didn't think about getting created no this is not the moment for that i just
2:17.8	just stick with what i know and this works well for me so uh good to see you buddy glad to you
2:23.1	glad you guys are doing well you're over in uh you have the uh the british accent people may
2:27.5	recognize you've been on the speaker lab podcast numerous times before and uh and you are based
2:33.1	out of new jersey right yeah we have a home in hoboken new jersey
2:36.5	and when all of this craziness started to kick up we also have a home here in the british
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