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Hey, what's our friend? Graham Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. Good to have you

here with us today. We've got a great show for you. This is actually the final show of 2019. So we have, it's been a great year. I hope you've had a great year. And as we get ready to go into the new year, the new year, I hope that you're going to have a great speaking year and excited for the road ahead. Not only for you, but for the speak lab, we've got some great stuff in store for the new year and excited to continue to help them serve and support you. Now, one of the big things that you've probably heard, hopefully have heard by now that we have coming out is a brand new book called The Successful Speaker 5 Steps for Booking Gigs, Getting Paid, and Building and building your platform is going to be out

February 18th but we have a lot of pre-order bonuses available for those that pick it up now so

you can go over to the speakerlab.com slash book the speakerlab.com slash book and there you can

pre-order your copy actually if you pre-order the book we're going to also give you the audio book for

free so make sure you go pick that up as well and several other bonuses there that are going to be included. But this is everything that we know about the speaking industry. We put into this resource, really, really excited about it. You're going to get a ton out of it. If you are interested in being a full-time speaker or being a part-time speaker or anything in between, you just say, hey, I'm just interested in speaking a couple times a year.

This is the book.

This is the resource, the guide, the handbook that you need that you're going to read. You're also going to be able to refer back to over the next several months and years as you continue to build and grow your own speaking business. So again, don't forget to pick that up. the successful speaker. Five steps for booking gigs getting paid, building your platform.

Again, pre-order that by going over to the speakerlab.com slash book. Okay, so let's get to today's guest. Today, we are talking with my friend Mark Bowden. Mark is a phenomenal speaker. He has a great accent, which we talk about here right at the gate. We also talk about how he has built his business and how he's made sure that he has picked a lane that has made sense for him. He's not trying to be all things for all people. We also talk about he gives three things that he has done that's helped him to build and grow his business, the things that has really moved the needle most for him. We also talk about the difference between picking a topic that you're interested and passionate about versus actually picking a result that you can deliver to a

client. So we spend a lot of time talking about that. We also talk about how he speaks primarily on

body language. And so we talk about the things that speakers need to be aware of whenever they are

speaking and things that they're doing nonverbally that may be sending the wrong message to an audience. So we talk about that, as well as how he is building his speaking business and how he's thinking about his business beyond just himself, beyond just a personal brand. So some really good insightful things there from Mark. The name Mark Bowden might sound familiar because we've actually done a speech breakdown reaction video to his TED Talk. So we're going to link up to that in the show notes as well. But Mark is a phenomenal speaker. I'd encourage you to check out that TED talk, check out that reaction video. And a lot that again, you can learn from that as a speaker. All right, let's get into this conversation with Mark Bowden. Enjoy it. Hey, it's our friends. Grant Baldwin here. Welcome back to the Speaker Lab podcast. Today, joined by my speaker friend and colleague, Mr. Mark Bowden. Mark, thanks for joining us today. How are you? Great, great to be here. Thanks for having me. Handed me around. Not only are you a phenomenal speaker, but you have people can't see, but you have great hair, way more than I've got and you've got this you've got this sexy

accent how much do you feel like the accent helps you when talking to event planners and then also

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