Creating Your Own Rocky Story with Clint Pulver

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The Speaker Lab

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

4.8 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Everyone loves an underdog, right? If you're just starting out as a speaker you definitely fall in the underdog category. So why not take full advantage and create your own underdog Rocky story? Clint Pulver did and success has followed suit.

Today he's going to tell us how he tapped into the power of his own Rocky story to make powerful relationships with speakers he admires and respects, and how he created his own board of directors as a result.

On this episode of The Speaker Lab, he'll also tell us how he incorporates professional drumming experience into his speaking gigs. Join us for the details on all of these topics with my friend and yours Clint Pulver.

THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:

How did he get his first speaking gig while still in high school?
When did he quit his full-time job in the medical field?
The 3 things that make up a dream job: what are they?
What one thing did he do that directly led to booking 7 gigs?
What questions did he ask of his prospective audience?
How much of a financial buffer did he have saved for himself?
What one piece of content generated 85% of his bookings in his first year?
What three business investments paid the biggest dividends?
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.
0:45.1	Hey, what's on? My friends, Grant Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaka lab podcast. I hope
0:52.5	you're doing well. Hope you're having a great day.
0:54.7	And I really do appreciate you joining us, whether this is your first time listening or if you're a long time listener, a first time caller. Something like that. We're glad that you're joining us. We've got a great guest for you today. I think you're really going to enjoy this conversation. Before we get there, let me remind you, if you haven't checked out our brand new YouTube channel,
1:10.9	we'd love for you to go check that out.
1:12.3	Every single week, we are posting brand new speech breakdowns. We're taking some of the more popular TED talks and speeches and keynotes and presentations that exist online. We are sharing kind of the ins and outs of those talks, why they work, things that worked, and how they worked, and something that could be improved upon. So there's a lot that you can take away and learn that you can apply to your next presentation. So definitely stop by and check that out. You can find out by going straight to our channel over at YouTube.com slash the speaker lab, YouTube.com slash the speaker lab, or just go to YouTube and search for the speaker lab or search for speech breakdown and you will find many different videos that we have done there so if you like those
1:47.8	videos definitely subscribe like comment on them and we really appreciate that let us know if there's a
1:52.7	talk or presentation or speaker that you would like for us to break down at some point in the future
1:57.8	now let's get to today's guests today we're going to be chatting with my buddy clint Clint Pulver and Clint has a great story. I think you're really going to enjoy this conversation. We talk about how he literally burned the, well, not literally, but figuratively burn the boats, transition from a corporate job to being a speaker. Speaking was something he kind of dabbled with, then he kind of went in the corporate world, speaking was that thing that's kind of hanging in the back of his mind. And ultimately, he made a transition back into speaking.
2:21.2	How he did it was pretty impressive. I think you're really going to enjoy that transition.
2:26.3	Clint's also actually a professional drummer. So he incorporates drumming into his talks.
2:30.9	So we talk about how he does that to create a real interactive, engaging experience.
2:35.0	We talk about the importance and value of good demo video and website and how that has really
2:39.6	helped him. He actually has a brand new website and demo video that are really, really legit.
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