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Hey, what's our friends? Graham Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. Glad that

you're here. Glad that you're joining us. Hope you're having a great day, whether you're a brand new speaker who is just getting started or you are a speaker who's been at this for a long time. You've been in the game for a while and you're just trying to figure out how you can continue to increase your impact and your income, make a bigger difference in a dent in the world. So before we get to the day's guest, let me remind you, if you are interested in working with us, the team at the speaker lab, myself included, in helping you build and grow your speaking business and helping you create a repeatable system to find and book paid speaking gigs, we would love to talk to you. We have the speaker lab program called booked and paid to speak elite, where we work hand in hand with you, helping you build and grow your speaking business. So if you were interested in learning more about that and applying to be a part of that program, then we'd love for you to stop by and check out the speakerlab.com slash apply. Again, that is the speakerlab.com slash apply. Now let's get to today's guest. today. We're going to be talking with Michael Hyatt, who is a very successful speaker, author, entrepreneur. And as I mentioned at the very end of our conversation, and all around amazing husband and father, just a great, great guy that really look up to an admire and respect. So I appreciate him taking a couple minutes to chat with us today. So we have a really wide-ranging conversation. So Michael has done a lot of speaking. He's done very little speaking and then does kind of a different form of speaking today. And so we talk about what his evolution of his speaking journey has been. We also talk about for a speaker who's getting started, who's just who's doing a lot and busy and they're working a full-time job. How do you balance

all of that? So we cover that. We dig into that as well. And then also we spend some time talking about Michael's new book, free to focus, which I highly recommend that you check out. It's available in book source everywhere. Make sure that you go snag that. But we talk about a couple different parts of the book as it relates to you as a speaker, talking about something called the freedom compass and understanding the difference between what you're good at what that desire zone is

versus what that desire zone is versus

what that dredgery zone is and how to make sure that you are aligning yourself as best as possible

as a speaker. And we also spend some time talking about the weekly and daily three of making sure

that you know which things that you should be focusing on. So last to cover,

last to get to. Let's get right into this conversation with Michael Hyatt. Enjoy.

Hey, Fringe, Grant Baldwin here. Welcome back to the Speaker Lab podcast. Today we are joined by

Michael Hyatt, who is the CEO of Michael Hyatt and company. It was a successful speaker, author, entrepreneur, all around, great, great guy. So Michael, thanks so much for taking a few minutes to chat with us today. Yeah, thanks for having me on, Grant. Appreciate it. This will be fun. So I wanted to start by talking about your speaking journey. You are someone who, before your current role, you were the CEO of Thomas Nelson. You did that for many, many years,

were extremely successful in that world in the publishing space, and then transition to kind of

your personal brand. And for a long time, you did a lot of speaking engagements. And so,

and then I think you went the complete opposite direction, did hardly any speaking engagement.

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