Heroic Public Speaking with Michael Port
The Speaker Lab Podcast
The Speaker Lab
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2016
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to The Speaker Lab. On today's show I'm sitting down with my friend Michael Port for a special dual interview show. On this special episode, not only do I interview Michael, but he interviews me as well!
Today on episode seven, our talk runs the gamut. From Friends trivia to transitioning from one career to a speaking career to the three questions every beginning speakers needs to ask him/herself, we dive into it all. It's well worth a listen so check it out on this episode of The Speaker Lab!
THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW
- How do you find the balance between improvising and preparing?
- How can you build an identity and persona in your speaking career?
- Narrowing down your target audience: Michael shares how he did it and you can too.
- Michael's techniques and tips for a flawless performance.
- What adjustments can be made during a talk?
- The surprising connections between acting and speaking.
- And much, much more!
EPISODE RESOURCES
- Steal The Show, Michael Port's podcast
- Michael Port's website
- Michael Port on Twitter
- Heroic Public Speaking
- Book Yourself Solid
- HDYGIT 73: How to Book Yourself Solid with Michael Port
- Take part in the contest
- Get Free Speaker Resources
- Book a Call with The Speaker Lab
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, friend, are you looking for ways to book more paid speaking gigs? |
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| 0:48.9 | Hey, what's up, my friends? Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. My name is Graham Baldwin. I'm happy |
| 0:53.5 | you're here. I hope you're having a great day wherever you're at in the world. Whether you are driving down the road, maybe you're headed to or from work. Maybe you're headed to a speaking gig right now. That'd be pretty sweet, huh? Maybe you just wrapped up one. Maybe you're at the gym, pumping iron, getting beefy on the treadmill. What else could you be doing? I don't know. Doing laundry, cooking dinner, whatever you're doing, wherever you're at in life. I hope you're having a great day. Really do appreciate you tuning in to the show. This is kicking off, week two of the show here on episode seven. And so really excited about that. We've got a, had a lot of great feedback on the show so far. A lot of great people that we've been talking to, a lot of great guests. We are doing a giveaway way now, so that's one that you don't want to miss out. So basically, we're asking you do a couple simple, basic little things. All we're asking you to do is leave us a rating and review on the podcast. You can do that within iTunes. Also, we would like for you to download all the episodes of the show and then subscribe to the podcast as well. All free. It'll take |
| 1:45.4 | you literally just a couple minutes. And by doing those things, then we're also going to enter |
| 1:50.7 | you into a drawing to give away a couple of free things. We're giving away some consulting |
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| 1:58.4 | giving away like a Kindle Fire and some of my favorite |
| 2:00.9 | speaking books. A couple different giveaways there. So you can get all the details about that |
| 2:05.3 | and how you can register for that over at podcastcontest.com. Again, that is podcastcontest.com. |
| 2:12.2 | You're definitely going to want to stop by and check that out. All right. So let's get into |
| 2:17.0 | today's guest, today's story. We've got a |
| 2:18.8 | longer episode than usual today. Normally, most episodes we do are going to be, you know, |
| 2:22.9 | we'll shoot for like 30 to 45 minutes or so whenever we're doing interviews. Today's is longer. |
| 2:27.5 | And let me explain who we're talking to and how this kind of came to be. So today I'm joined |
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