How Being Different is Awesome with Ryan Haack

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4.8 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Is there something unique about you, perhaps something you haven't fully shared with the world? Our guest joins us to share how being different is awesome and how what makes him different has opened doors in his speaking career.

Ryan Haack is a student in our Booked and Paid to Speak training program, and has had success speaking to elementary schools. Specifically, he talks to elementary school assemblies about a physical difference he has had since birth and why being different is positive.

Also on today's show we talk about the pros and cons of speaking to elementary schools, including fees and other logistics, plus how he juggles speaking with a full-time job. Join us for those topics and more on episode 217 of The Speaker Lab!

THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:

What two questions to ask yourself to determine your audience.
How does he balance speaking to multiple audiences while not being too broad?
What came first: his book or speaking?
How do you know you're doing the right thing?
What model works best for speaking to elementary schools?
How does he adjust his speeches according to the age groups in his audience?
Who is typically the decision-maker he goes through?
What next steps does he recommend if you are getting started?
And so much more!

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0:00.0	Hey, friend, are you looking for ways to book more paid speaking gigs?
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0:39.3	and register right now. We look forward to seeing you on the live training.
0:50.4	Hey, what's up, my friends? Grant Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaker Lab podcast. We are glad that you are here. We are rapidly wrapping up 2018, coming up on 2019. I hope you've had a phenomenal year. We've had a good holiday season and you are ready to go for the new year. So today we've got a great guest for you. We've got a student of ours that we've worked with for a little while now and has had some success speaking in schools. And so we're going to be talking with him in just a second. Before we get there, as we wrap up this year, as we look toward next year, if you are wanting help to build and grow your speaking business, then you definitely want to check out free speakerworkshop.com. Free speakerworkshop.com. This is a free training that we offer
1:29.0	walking you through a step-by-step plan of exactly how you can find and book paid speaking
1:34.6	engagement. So definitely check that out. Again, you can go over to free speakerworkshop.com,
1:39.8	free speakerworkshop.com. All right, so today we're going to be talking with Ryan Hack, and Ryan's a great speaker. He does a lot of speaking to elementary schools. So we're going to be talking about that. It's kind of an interesting niche. And we're going to be talking about the different fee ranges for elementary schools. I got to talk about the pros and cons of speaking to elementary schools. Now, one of the unique things about Ryan is he also has what he would term as a kind of
2:02.4	physical difference, something that he was born with.
2:04.2	It's kind of unique.
2:05.3	And so we talk about how he has incorporated that into his talks.
2:08.7	We also talk about how he balances speaking with a full-time job.
2:11.8	So lots to get to.
2:13.1	Let's jump right in and enjoy this conversation with Ryan Hack.
2:19.0	Hey, what's on my friends, Graham Baldwin here today, joined by my buddy Ryan Hack, who is a
2:23.1	student with inside, with inside, I don't even think that that's accurate, inside of our
2:28.1	Books and Paid to Speak training program. I actually went through the program several years
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