How the Youth Speaking Industry Is Responding to COVID-19 With Kyle Scheele

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🗓️ 26 March 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Grant Baldwin and Kyle Scheele hosted a Facebook Live to talk about how the youth speaking industry is responding and adjusting to the coronavirus.

During the live stream, Grant and Kyle discuss:

Navigating the crazy ups and downs
Adjusting to unexpected free time
Plenty of events that are rescheduling and postponing instead of canceling
How long will it take to get back to normal
Looking back to history for a sense of hope
Taking steps to prepare your finances for difficult times
Making a list of what you can control
Not wasting your time worrying about whatever is outside your control
Taking advantage of the downtime to catch up on projects you avoided
Spending time with loved ones and using technology to stay connected
How to ethically market your speaking business in times of crisis
The hidden benefits of working with a speaking agency
How will you tweak and adapt your content after this crisis?
How can you change to better serve people?
We have been through hard things as humans and we will continue to go through hard things
And more

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0:00.0	Hey, Fran, Graham Baldwin here.
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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.
0:48.2	Hey, what's up? Friends, Graham Baldwin here. Welcome back to the Speakelab podcast. We're doing
0:51.5	well in these weird and unique times in the world. Hey, we've been doing these daily Facebook lives with speakers and different people in the speaking industry. Today, we're going to be talking with my friend Kyle Shealy, who is a fabulous, tremendous youth speaker, has been in the game for a long time. Really has good insights here on how he's approaching it, how he's thinking about, how he's keeping his head in the game, anything he's doing differently, what he's hearing from clients, that sort of thing. So good conversation with Kyle. We, again, recorded this on Facebook Live and a couple different places within Facebook and YouTube. So if you're not already following us there to catch these live on a daily basis, make sure that you're catching us there. You're following us there. we would love to hang out with you live when we record these so let's get ready in this
1:31.2	conversation with Kyle Shealy enjoy hey it's our friends I'm Gran Baldwin here joined by my
1:36.6	buddy Kyle Shealy hope you guys are doing well hope you're having a great day I got my water
1:41.7	bottle that's the extent of it I got we I'm very you are well I got another one I got my water bottle. That's the extent of it. I got water too. I'm very, I've got all the sorts of options.
1:46.5	I got another one. I got this, this coconut drink, whatever this is. My goodness, I'm out.
1:51.5	You beat me. You get me.
1:55.7	Hey guys, glad you guys are here.
2:03.7	So we've been doing this series on a daily basis where we were just talking to people in the speaking industry talking about how we were processing everything that's going on in the world right now.
2:03.7	Obviously, this is you. this series on a daily basis where we were just talking to people in the speaking industry, talking about how we are processing everything that's going on in the world right now.
2:06.5	Obviously, this is unique, unprecedented times.
2:11.7	And so Kyle is here representing kind of the youth industry, the youth speaking market.
2:13.9	Kyle and I have known each other for many, many years.
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