Finding Value in Your Story with Kimberly Clark

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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

🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

“I got to the point where if I was going to [be a speaker] I have to be serious about it and I’m going to have to invest in myself. I had to get to the ‘I’m worth it’ mindset, and The Speaker Lab [helped me with that].”

Making an impact as a speaker isn’t just about your time on stage—it’s about the courage to own your story and use it to help others. This week, teen resilience speaker, Kimberly Clark, shares her powerful journey from addiction and trauma to inspiring change in the lives of young people. What sets Kimberly apart isn’t just her willingness to be real and raw—it's her focus on turning pain into practical solutions for the teens she serves. Rather than settling for telling her story for free, she learned to recognize her true value, invest in her own growth, and help her audience move from inspiration to action. Her message? People aren’t just looking for a story—they want help navigating their own challenges.

Kimberly gets honest about the hurdles every speaker faces, from self-doubt to the emotions that come with pricing your expertise. Through relentless learning, seeking mentorship, and redefining her approach, she’s built a speaking business rooted in authentic connection and actionable takeaways. For anyone wondering if their story is enough, Kimberly is proof that leadership starts with authenticity and the courage to ask for your worth. If you want your message to create lasting change, Kimberly’s journey is all the inspiration—and practical advice—you need to start!

You’ll learn:

Methods for finding gigs: cold and warm outreach, word-of-mouth
Balancing a speaking career with a day job
Kimberly’s personal story and inspiration for speaking
Perseverance when results are lacking
The empowering aspects of authorship
Getting past inhibiting mindsets and investing in yourself
Overcoming fear and gaining confidence as a speaker
The importance of mentorship and the business side of speaking
And much, much more!

“I thought telling my story was enough, but people aren’t paying you to tell your story. People want thought leadership. People want you to solve their problems…so I had to figure out what’s in my story that’s valuable and marketable.”

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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 and register right now.
0:41.1	We look forward to seeing you on the live training.
1:04.3	I, I had the mentality of, especially for churches, like, I'm supposed to tell my story for free.
1:06.0	Like, you're supposed to do that.
1:08.5	Like, you're out of order if you don't.
1:09.1	Yeah.
1:15.2	And so I didn't know how to put a price or a value on the value that I brought.
1:19.7	So I was going through an emotional storm, emotional turmoil.
1:23.9	I thought telling my story was enough, but people ain't paying you to tell your story.
1:25.4	People want thought leadership.
1:27.4	People want you to solve their problems. So I've got to
1:28.6	figure out what's in my story that's valuable and that's marketable.
1:38.0	Hey, it's our friends, Grant Baldwin here. Welcome back to the Speaker Lab podcast. Excited for today's
1:42.0	conversation with Kimberly Clark. And Kimberly actually went through one of our programs here at the Speaker Lab podcast, excited for today's conversation with Kimberly Clark. And Kimberly actually went
1:45.7	through one of our programs here at the Speaker Lab and has been killing it as the speaker.
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