Finding Your Speaking Groove with Chris Ducker
The Speaker Lab Podcast
The Speaker Lab
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2016
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
When you're thinking of what subject to speak on remember that topic will change over time. In the course of your career your topic will even change a few times, it will evolve as you evolve as a professional speaker.
A great reminder of this is Chris Ducker, our guest on this episode. If you don't know him Chris is a best-selling author, multi-successful entrepreneur and in-demand speaker who has given presentations and keynotes around the globe.
Chris started speaking almost by accident (a story he shares today), and over the years he has evolved his speaking gigs to reflect his entrepreneurial journey. Today he shares why he's pivoted along the way, and how he's done it. You'll hear all of that and much more on this episode of The Speaker Lab!
THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW
- Does Chris still get nervous before his gigs?
- The one trick he uses before going on stage to be calm and collected.
- How did Hong Kong cinema lead to Chris' first speaking gig?
- When did his speaking career truly take off?
- Who was in the audience during his first speaking gig for the online world?
- How he has narrowed down his speaking topic over the years.
- What does he look for when hiring a speaker for his event?
- Chris shares his "couldn't be worse than this" moment!
- And much, much more!
EPISODE RESOURCES
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- Chris Ducker on Twitter
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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 speaklab.com slash marketing and we'll see you there. What is up, my friend? Welcome back to |
| 0:50.5 | the speaker lab podcast. My name is Graham Baldwin. Good to have you here with us today. |
| 0:58.3 | Hope life is treating you good. Hope whatever you're up to. You're having a nice, lovely day. |
| 1:12.4 | Appreciate you joining us and hanging out with us today. Hey, one thing I wanted to remind you of right out of the gate here is if you haven't already, definitely stopped by this new PDF training guide that we put together. It's totally free. Basically, what I did is I talked to a bunch of speaker friends, some of the top speakers in the industry and the business. |
| 1:16.7 | These are speakers that get paid a ridiculous amount of money to travel and run their mouths. |
| 1:21.1 | These are amazing, amazing presenters and speakers. And so I just asked them, hey, what are |
| 1:25.0 | your best speaking tips and strategies, secrets, tactics? |
| 1:30.1 | What happens behind the curtain? |
| 1:31.4 | Before you go out on stage, what is it that people need to know that will make them a better speaker? |
| 1:37.6 | So we took all those, we compiled those together. |
| 1:39.4 | We talked to people like Michael Port, who we interviewed in episode seven. |
| 1:43.2 | You can go back and listen to. Talk to people like Chris Brogan, Dan Miller, Pat Flynn, Jonathan Fields, John Lee Dumas, John Janj, John, Eka. That's a lot of Johns, Jonathan, John, John, John there. So lots of people that we talk to, again, some of the top speakers in the industry, in the business, talk to them to get their speaking strategies |
| 2:01.1 | and tips. |
| 2:01.9 | And we put all that together and totally free PDF. |
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