Creating Impactful Stories with Rain Bennett

The Speaker Lab Podcast

The Speaker Lab

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

4.8 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

As a speaker, creating impactful stories matters. Here to talk about how creating impactful stories is something you can do consistently to help grow your speaking career is Rain Bennett.

Rain has been a documentary filmmaker who knows how to tell a good story when you don't have a lot of time, money and resources. Today he helps those folks understand the storytelling tactics they can use to make impactful video stories for their audiences. You'll hear about that plus how he went from his first non-paid speaking gig in the basement of a library to national keynotes in a year.

Join us for that plus his advice for anyone trying to build momentum on today's The Speaker Lab!

THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:

What strategy can get you from doing free gigs to being paid to speak at big conferences?
Should you make your social media a hybrid of your personal life and your professional?
Why sharing your missteps and struggles is so powerful to growing your network.
What does it mean to find your unique intersections?
How honesty and transparency became keys to his success.
Can you rely on discipline alone?
How can you go deeper with current clients during the pandemic?
Why inaction is the enemy and how to tackle it.
And so much more!

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0:00.0	Hey, Fran, Graham Baldwin here.
0:01.4	Hey, what if I told you that there was a single marketing asset that you could use to book tens of thousands of dollars in paid speaking gigs before you even have a website?
0:10.2	Well, that tool exists.
0:11.4	And Dan Irvin, one of the speakers on our team, used it to book over $36,000 in speaking gigs without a fancy website or any social media presence.
0:19.6	Even better, we're going to teach you exactly how
0:22.1	to create that tool for your speaking business in under an hour. For a limited time, we're going to
0:26.9	be offering a free live training on how to build and use this marketing asset to start booking
0:31.9	paid gigs in just a few weeks. If you want to hear more, go to thespeakalab.com slash marketing.
0:38.5	That's what you got to do is go to the speakelab.com slash marketing and we'll see you there.
0:50.5	Hey, what's up, Grant Baldwin here? Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. So good to have you here with us today on episode 317. I've got another awesome show for you as we are continuing our series on student success stories here at the speaker lab. So today we're going to be highlighting one of the more interesting folks we've had on the podcast. We're going to be talking with Rain Bennett. Now, Rain is a documentary filmmaker. He actually recently added speaking to his portfolio
1:11.4	for a few different reasons we're going to talk about in this conversation. One thing I really
1:14.9	enjoy about Rain is he found a way to take a problem that he's experienced in his own career,
1:19.7	how to tell great stories when you have limited time, money, and resources, and he turned it into
1:23.8	an opportunity to get paid by helping others who have that same problem. So how did he go
1:28.6	from doing a free event in a library basement to doing a national keynote in less than a year?
1:33.2	How important does he think it is to let the world know that you're a paid speaker? And why does
1:37.6	he feel that being a great speaker with a disciplined work ethic isn't enough to have a successful
1:42.0	speaking career? We're going to answer all of those questions and more in our conversation.
1:45.5	So let's get right into it.
1:46.7	Here's my conversation with documentary filmmaker and speaker lab student, Rain Bennett.
1:51.2	Enjoy.
1:57.3	Hey, what's that French?
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