From Worship Pastor to Full-Time Speaker with Ken Hartley

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The Speaker Lab

Authors, Public Speakers, Public Speaking, How To, Marketing, Smallbusiness, Coaching, Education, Entrepreneurship, Speaking, Business, Side Gig

4.8 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

“That type of belief is what carries you through when everybody else is dropping like flies. When you know for a fact this is what you’re made for, then there’s nothing else you can do.”

The journey to professional speaking is not always a simple one, and our guest this week knows this all too well. Ken Hartley spent over 20 years serving as a worship pastor (and also worked as a magician!) on the way to becoming a full-time professional speaker. This week, Ken is here to break down how he found his new career in speaking and made the leap of faith that led to this point.

With a background in ministry, music, and magic, Ken was no stranger to the stage. However, making the switch to speaking wasn't an easy one. He found himself struggling with the commitment both financially and personally to take the leap, but was encouraged and supported by many family members. In fact, his mom gave him the money to get the training, and 19 months later, he got a gig paying the same amount as the kind gift he was given.

It can be difficult to overcome self-doubt, and fear, but Ken will discuss how he worked through those moments, and learned to trust himself and his talent. Plus, his participation in The Speaker Lab as a student shaped the way he works in the business for the better. Each opportunity or gig has led him to new spin offs, and he is the perfect person to learn why showing up for yourself and committing can help you grow for the better.

You’ll learn:

The secret to taking risks
Where to find the right resources for you
How to overcome imposter syndrome
Why you should consider The Speaker Lab for training
How to build momentum in your business
And so much more!

“The only way to get good on stage is to be on stage.”

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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.
0:38.4	That's what you got to do is go to the speakelab.com slash marketing and we'll see you there. Right now, you're worried about what happens if you don't get booked but there's going to be
1:00.0	another thing that's going to come up of what do you do when they like you and that was a real
1:04.7	feeling because the first time i got booked and it was a five-figure speaking fee i was like man five
1:10.7	figures this is unbelievable they booked man, five figures, this is
1:11.3	unbelievable. They booked me for five figures. And then I went, oh, crap, I got to be worth five
1:15.6	figures.
1:21.2	Hey, friends, this is Grant Baldwin. Welcome back to the Speaker Lab podcast. This week, we've got a
1:25.5	great conversation with a former TSL student,
1:28.7	Ken Hartley. Now, Ken is someone who went through our program here at the Speaker Lab and now is
1:33.1	doing incredibly well as a full-time speaker. He's here to share what he learned about
1:37.7	struggling to get traction early on, transitioning to full-time speaking, how he found his niche,
1:42.6	and how he learned to overcome South
1:44.2	Doubt and Imposter Syndrome. If you're a new speaker or someone looking to take the next step
1:49.0	into full-time speaking, there's a lot in this episode that you don't want to miss. So let's get
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