Finding Your Why with Chris Failla [Student Highlight]
The Speaker Lab Podcast
The Speaker Lab
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Sharing in the excitement of our student’s success is such a privilege for our team at The Speaker Lab. Our Director of Student Success, Maryalice Goldsmith, is taking the mic for our Student Highlight series so you can hear more about our students’ experiences and what they want you to know about growing your speaking business.
Chris Failla has got an awesome story to share and you’re sure to leave this episode feeling inspired and encouraged to take the next big step in your own career. He’s full of heart and has a really unique narrative to share about what has inspired him to take the stage. Chris and Maryalice talk about finding your “deeper why” and how to use your message to make an impact.
During this conversation, Chris unpacks his process, how he came to find The Speaker Lab, and how this investment in his business and himself brought him to stages he never could have imagined. Chris is motivated by the desire to help others love their work for the long haul and have a sustainable impact on a human level. He’s the real deal, and he’s here to share!
THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:
- The moment he knew he was meant to speak
- Being the light switch for your audience
- What it means to honor “bedrock values”
- The financial and emotional “why”
- Researching your audience before you get on stage
- Working through an “oops”
- Why your “why” matters so much
- And much more!
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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. That's all one word, the speakerlap.com slash get booked |
| 0:39.3 | and register right now. We look forward to seeing you on the live training. |
| 0:47.6 | Hey, what's up? Frang, Grant Baldwin here. So good to have you here with us for another awesome episode of the Speaker Lab podcast. |
| 0:57.5 | Now, one of the best parts of TSL is working with our students, like day in, day out. |
| 1:03.2 | We've literally helped thousands of students to build and grow their speaking business and to share their message with the world. |
| 1:09.5 | And I am thrilled that you have the opportunity to hear from some of them during our monthly student highlight series because one of the things you're going to find is their stories are going to offer really insight and hope no matter where you are in your speaking career. We're going to talk about exactly what they've done, how they've built their business and some of the results that they're seeing. And so for this series, we're going to do something a little bit different. |
| 1:29.4 | I'm going to hand the mic to one of our coaches who are in the trenches every single day, |
| 1:33.4 | helping our students to gain the confidence, the clarity, |
| 1:35.9 | and that clear path that they need to their very own speaking success. |
| 1:40.1 | I know you're going to love hearing from and learning from these students, |
| 1:42.5 | so let's get right into it. |
| 1:43.7 | Enjoy. |
| 1:48.0 | Thank you. I know you're going to love hearing from and learning from these students, so let's get right into it. Enjoy. Hey, everyone. Mary Alice Goldsmith here, director of student success for the Speaker Lab. And I am so glad to be here taking over the Speaker Lab podcast. It's a true honor to have the opportunity to introduce you to some of our |
| 2:01.6 | amazing students. And I promise you're going to learn a ton from their experiences and be |
| 2:06.9 | inspired by their perseverance and success. Today, it's my privilege to introduce you to Chris |
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