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Hey, what's up for Instagram, Baldwin here? So good to have you here with us today for another fun episode of the Speaker Lab podcast. Now, I guess today is not only a successful speaker himself, he's also part of our student success team here at the Speaker Lab. I'm going to be talking today with Mr. Jeremy Rochford, and I think you're really going to love hearing his story. We're going to go deep on a few different things in this conversation, including why he transitioned from the music industry to being a speaker.

We're going to talk about how he was able to find clarity in his messaging and his unique experience,

with the positive and negatives in delivering a TEDx talk back in 2015. The other inspiring thing

about Jeremy's story is the amount of weight he has lost whenever he decided to change his lifestyle and get healthy. It's an insane number. I think you're going to love how that transformation really played a role in him finding his voice as a speaker. So make sure you listen in for that because it's a really, it's an incredible inspiring part of his story. If you don't know who Jeremy is, if you've never heard about him and his

story, I think you're really going to enjoy today's conversation. So let's get right into it. Here's my conversation with one of our student success coaches and leaders here at the Speaker Lab, Mr. Jeremy Rochford. Enjoy it. Hey, what's up, friends? Welcome back to the Speaker Lab podcast. Today we are joined by Mr. Jeremy Rajford. Excited to have Jeremy here because not only is he a successful speaker, but he is also

a coach and on our student success team here at the speaker lab. He actually interacts with just

about every single student that comes in the door. In fact, when students come in the door,

Jeremy's the first person that the people interact with. So excited to hear some of his perspectives as working with literally hundreds and hundreds of students through our programs and what he has seen, but also talking about his own journey. So Jeremy, thanks for hanging out with us. Thanks for joining us today. Yeah, thank you for having me. Glad to be here. This will be good. So let's go back in time. How did you first get into speaking? How is speaking on your radar? Give us the backstory.

Yeah, I'll do my best to keep it short because as speakers and storytellers, we like to ramble.

We like to go.

It started with music, actually. I have a history in the music industry.

And one of the things that

frustrated me as a music connoisseur was that dead time when they would tune or

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