How Being a Writer Can Make You a Better Speaker

The Speaker Lab Podcast

The Speaker Lab

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

4.8 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2016

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

If you've ever spent hours cleaning out your garage or attic or any other space in your home, you will be intrigued by today's guest's story.

About eight years ago Joshua Becker decided to clean and organize his garage. He spent hours doing it, while his young son played on a swing set in their yard by himself.

When Joshua's neighbor mentioned minimalism to him, a light bulb went off. He realized not only was all his "stuff" not making him happier, it was keeping him from the things in his life that gave him purpose, fulfillment and happiness (ie his family).

On episode 88 of The Speaker Lab, Joshua shares how that experience began the odyssey that is today his business, Becoming Minimalist. We talk about his decision to start writing about his minimalist experience, and how he knew people were resonating with his message enough to build a business around it. There's all of that and more on this edition of The Speaker Lab!

THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:

What were the 3 indicators that told him to share this message?
How did he know he was the right person to help others with minimalism?
What book prompted him to include speaking in his offerings?
Why are speakers who write better speakers, and writers who speak better writers?
How did he narrow down his target audience?
Why doesn't he charge to speak?
How does he balance making a difference in the world with his financial obligations?
What's the best thing we can do to help people?
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.
0:04.4	Maybe you're just starting out as a speaker. You're trying to figure out what to prioritize in order to get booked and paid as quickly as possible. Listen, if that's you, I want you to join us for a free live training where you're going to learn how to create the number one marketing asset that you need to consistently book more paid gigs. This is a tool that one speaker on our team used to book over $36,000 in paid gigs before he even had a website.
0:27.2	This training is free.
0:28.1	It's live and we offered a few times a week so you can find a time that works best for you.
0:32.5	All you got to do is head over to thespeakerlab.com slash get booked.
0:36.3	That's all one word.
0:37.2	Thespeakelab.com slash get booked. That's all one word, the speakerlap.com slash get booked
0:39.3	and register right now. We look forward to seeing you on the live training.
0:46.8	What is up, my friend? Graham Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. Good to have you here with us today. Here on episode 88, we are starting to wrap up the summer here in the U.S. Hope you've got a great summer. Hopefully you've had some pool time, been able to do some vacations or, I don't know, whatever you're up to. I hope you've had a good time. Hey, we've got a great episode, a great show for you. Hey, quickly, before we get into today, let me remind you that in a couple weeks, we are going to be hosting something that I've teased you about, and I've talked about just briefly. I want to tell you a little bit more about in the next few weeks, but we're going to be hosting the Speaker Lab Summit. This is going to be an online summit where we have gathered 40 of the
1:29.1	best of the best world class top speakers, industry experts, authors, authorities, all on the
1:36.7	speaking business, the art and business of speaking. And so we're going to be bringing those to
1:41.9	you for free in a summit that we're going to be having in September. She's going to be hearing about that more in the next few weeks, but I just want to remind you about that. Just give you a little, just a little teaser about what we've got going. We're going to have some of the best of the best speakers there. We're going to have people like Bob Berg. We're going to have Chandler Bolt. We're going to have Grant Baldwin. Yeah, I'm just going to
2:02.5	name drop myself there. Jeff Goins. Let's see who else we have there. Ron Tite, Pam Slim,
2:08.2	Pat Flynn, Chris Ducker, Jeff Goins, Michael and Amy Port, Scott Stratton. We've got a great,
2:14.6	great lineup of speakers sharing some of the behind the scenes about how they have built and grown their speaking business. So you're not going to want to
2:20.7	miss out on that. All right. So for today's episode, we got my buddy Joshua Becker, who's a speaker.
2:26.5	He does some speaking, but he's primarily known as an author. So we're going to be talking today
2:30.9	about how he's used his speaking and his books kind of in conjunction there.
2:35.5	Also talking about how he uses speaking for free to generate revenue in other ways in his business.
2:41.8	So I think you're really going to enjoy this conversation.
2:43.9	So let's get right into it.
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