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Hey, what's up for Andrew? Graham Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. Good to have

you here with us today. I hope you're having a great day, whether this is your first time listening or you've been listening to all a couple hundred episodes that we've done here. We're closing in on 300 episodes that we'll hit in a couple months. So if you've listened to all of them up at this point, thanks. We really appreciate it. And if you've listened to just this one, thanks, we also really, really do appreciate it. So wherever you're at in your speaking journey, we hope that the speaker lab and the podcast here can really be a resource and a guide and tool to help you in your speaking journey. Now, in addition to the podcast, other resources we have, if you haven't already, you definitely want to check out our book, brand new book out called The Successful Speaker, Five Steps for Booking Gigs, Getting Paid, and Building Your Platform. So definitely want to check that out. It is out now in bookstores everywhere on Amazon Barnes & Noble. We've been getting some really, really great feedback about it and really excited about it, really proud of it. So again, if you're looking for a step-by-step handbook guide to finding and booking speaking gigs, whether you want to do one or

a hundred, then the successful speaker is the book that you need. So make sure you go check it out.

All right. So today we've got a great conversation. This is one of my favorite conversations

I've had on the podcast with Kendra Hall. Now, Kendra is a

very popular keynote speaker. It's just exploded in the speaking industry in the past few years

and is just killing it. Also has a brand new book out called Stories That Stick. We didn't even

get to the book. We got so into just the conversation of how she has built her business.

What I really enjoyed was how passionate about speaking that Kendra is and was in the conversation of how she has built her business. What I really enjoyed was how passionate

about speaking that Kendra is and was in the conversation and how she started without any

special skills or talents or abilities other than being passionate about storytelling and being

passionate about speaking. But there's nothing that on paper that qualifies her to be this amazing

speaker. She doesn't have some crazy background story. She doesn't have anything that you think she needs. She hasn't won a gold medal, as far as I know. She wasn't a war hero. She hasn't climbed Mount Everest. She's just a normal lady that is passionate about speaking about, passionate about helping businesses tell better stories. And she's built a very successful business around that in a very short period of time. So she walks through in detail, in depth of exactly how she has done that. We talk about speaking bureaus. We talk about what it's like to be a female speaker and the pros and cons of that. So there's a lot that we get into. I think you're really going to enjoy this conversation. Again, one of my favors that we've done on the show.

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