How Speakers Can Maximize the Gift of Time During Quarantine w/ Michael Port

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🗓️ 24 April 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Grant Baldwin and Michael Port hosted a Facebook Live to talk about what speakers can do to take advantage of the extra time during quarantine to improve their value as a performer.

During the live stream, Grant and Mike discuss:

This is the time to be working on your talk
“Either it will pass or I will pass."
Best practices for wearing glasses on camera
Surviving as a speaker in the midst of a crisis
Why speakers can’t afford to be average
Everything you do as a performer must be transformational
How the expected quality for speakers will increase
What speakers should be working on right now
How speakers can maximize the gift of time during quarantine
Why using live events as rehearsals is a mistake
What deep work looks like for speakers
Mapping out an effective rehearsal process
Reinventing your speech in ways you never imagined
Asking specific questions when it comes to feedback
How to scale your choices from good to great
Using a mystery box visual to raise the stakes for your audience
The risk of failing to deliver on the promise your performance makes
Why Michael retired from keynoting
How to wisely leverage the trust you earn from an audience to enrich their experience
What Pixar considers a “perfect” film
Crafting a transformational experience for your audience
Are virtual events merely a temporary fix or a lasting trend?
The challenges events face in replicating the impact of in-person trade shows online
Advice for speakers to keep their head in the right space
Making sure you continue to support your network of colleagues and clients
The #1 most important factor in booking more paid speaking gigs
Creating a productive work environment
Incrementally improving your speech 5 minutes at a time
And more

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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.
0:38.5	That's what you got to do is go to the speakelab.com slash marketing and we'll see you there.
0:49.6	Hey, hey, what's up, Frank? Graham Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. Good to
0:52.7	have you here with us today. We have another bonus episode for you.
0:56.5	Today we had a great conversation with Mr. Michael Port, who is the co-founder of heroic public speaking and the author of Steal the Show, which is a great book. we talk about this book. You need to pick up this book.
1:06.4	Steal the show from speeches to job interviews to deal closing pitches,
1:10.9	how to guarantee a standing ovation for all the performances in your life.
1:14.1	You need to make sure. the show from speeches to job interviews to deal closing pitches how to guarantee a standing ovation
1:12.0	for all the performances in your life you need to make sure that you pick up steal the show but we talk
1:16.8	about the you know the current speaking climate the current speaking industry and how the
1:20.8	COVID situation is going to be affecting that how it's already affecting it will continue to affect
1:25.0	it we also talk a lot about how speakers can be working on their speeches, right? The most important marketing tool that you have is your speech. And so we talk about the things that you could be tweaking and improving. Michael gets some great examples of how you can continue to level up in your speaking. We also talk a lot about virtual speaking. And is this something that's temporary? Is this going to be around for a long time? And then finally we just talk about what's kind of how do we need to be thinking about this adjustments,
1:48.0	pivots. speaking and is this something that's temporary? Is this going to be around for a long time?
2:01.7	And then finally we just talk about what's kind of, how do we need to be thinking about this? Adjustments, pivots we need to be making in our businesses and how do we stay positive in the midst of all of this. So great conversation with Michael Port. Let's, let's jump right into it. Enjoy. Hey, what's our friends? Grant Bolden here. Hope you're doing well. Hope you are keeping your head up in the midst of the strange weird world.
2:03.3	As you may have been following along,
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