From Physician to Full-Time Speaker with Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith
The Speaker Lab Podcast
The Speaker Lab
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith has gone from physician to full-time speaker, and she joins us to tell us how she made the leap!
After two decades in the medical world, today Dr. Saundra speaks about burn out and work-life integration. During episode 316 of The Speaker Lab, we talk more about her own experiences in this realm and how she made the transition from physician to full-time speaker, and how the pandemic has impacted her business and her life.
Join us to hear those details and more on this episode of The Speaker Lab.
THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:
- What is the key to restoring ourselves without stopping all activities?
- How many types of rests are there?
- When should you start small?
- How can you build a speaking business while you're working in another field?
- Why your fee should include your time for studying your specific audience.
- What part of the process was scary for her?
- How many years did she speak before going into it full-time?
- How did she adapt to virtual speaking and will she do it more in the future?
- And so 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. |
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| 0:36.3 | That's all one word. |
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| 0:39.3 | and register right now. We look forward to seeing you on the live training. |
| 0:52.2 | Hey, what's up, friends? Graham Baldwin here. Welcome back to the Speaker Lab podcast. |
| 0:55.9 | So good to have you here with us today on episode 316. |
| 0:58.3 | Got a great show for you today as we are continuing this awesome series highlighting |
| 1:02.6 | student success stories from here within the speaker lab. |
| 1:05.8 | So far, we've talked with a variety of different students. |
| 1:07.8 | If you've missed any of those, make sure you go back, you check them out later. But for now, keep listening to this episode because the doctor is in. |
| 1:16.5 | What do I mean by that? Well, today, I'm joined by Dr. Sandra Dalton Smith, who speaks to |
| 1:20.5 | organizations on how to rev up and engage their team without burning them out. And so if you've |
| 1:25.6 | ever considered the possibility of changing careers |
| 1:27.6 | from a great full-time job to being a professional speaker, you're definitely going to want to |
| 1:31.8 | take notes on this one. You see, Sandra is a full-time speaker as of 2019, but before that, |
| 1:36.8 | she actually put in 20 years of clinical practice as a doctor. In the first 10 minutes, you're going |
| 1:42.0 | to hear her talk about why she landed on speaking |
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