How to Balance Your Home Life and Your Hustle with Erik Fisher
The Speaker Lab Podcast
The Speaker Lab
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2016
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Whether you are building a speaking business or any other kind of business, you most likely are doing so while still working a full-time job. When you add in the responsibilities of being a spouse, a parent and the other roles in your life, how do you do it while staying sane?
One man who knows how it's done is Erik Fisher. Erik is the Social Media Manager for the Social Media Examiner's web site and is also host of the podcast, Beyond The To-Do List.
On his show he has conversations with some of the best and brightest successes in the world about their productivity habits, their successes and failures, and how they balance it all with their home life and their loved ones.
You'll hear Erik talk about how that show got started, why there is no silver bullet solution to productivity, and so much more on the 108th edition of The Speaker Lab.
THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:
- Can you have both a full-time job and a side gig you are working on?
- The secret to how he started podcasting, while still in his full-time job.
- Can time constraints ever be beneficial?
- What is Parkinson's Law and how does it apply to productivity?
- How accountability can help you stay connected and on track.
- How do you balance the hustle of building a business with a happy home life?
- Is there an easy way to know you are on the wrong path?
- And so much 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. |
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| 0:22.1 | to create that tool for your speaking business in under an hour. For a limited time, we're going to |
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| 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 speakakerlab.com slash marketing. That's all you got to do is go to the speakerlab.com slash marketing and we'll see you there. |
| 0:45.1 | What is up, my friend, Graham Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. We are on |
| 0:52.7 | episode 108 and glad you're |
| 0:55.2 | hanging out with us today. Hey, whether you are brand new to speaking and you're just kind of getting started and just trying to figure it out or maybe you've been at it for a while, wherever you're at in your speaking journey, we want to make sure that this is the place for you, that this is the place where you can find the help, support and teaching training, encouragement, whatever you need, the kick in the pants or the |
| 1:10.2 | hug to let you know that what you do matters, the speaking that you do, and the difference that you're making. Hey, today we got a great guest for you. Before we get into that, let me quickly remind you, if you haven't already, you definitely want to register for one of our upcoming free live trainings where we teach all about how to find and book paid speaking engagements. So |
| 1:28.5 | if you haven't already, definitely stop by free speakerworkshop.com. Again, that is free |
| 1:32.9 | speakerworkshop.com. Register for the next one of those. And we look forward to seeing you |
| 1:38.5 | there. Okay, today we were talking with my buddy Eric Fisher. Eric runs the podcast, a huge |
| 1:43.9 | wildly successful podcast called Beyond the To Do List. And so today we are talking with my buddy Eric Fisher. Eric runs the podcast, a huge wildly successful podcast called Beyond the To Do List. And so today we'll talk about a couple different things. We'll talk about how to build your business as a speaker while working a full-time job. I know that's where I was at and I know many of you may be in a similar spot. We talk about how to hustle in the margins and find small blocks of time to get your work done. We talk about how to balance work and life while you're trying to work a full-time job, but also how to build a business. And then also we talk about finding community and accountability while you're building your business. So we dig into that. Hey, one quick note, before we get into it, Eric's audio in the beginning was a little bit up and down. So we tried to level that out as best as possible, but it kind of levels out itself as we go. So you might still hear a little bit of that bit. So if you do, just hang in there and it levels out. So the joys of technology. Does you love it? That's great. Good. All right, my friends, let's get right into it. Here's my conversation with my buddy Eric Fisher. Enjoy. What's up, my friends? Graham Baldwin here. |
| 2:38.0 | Welcome back. Let's get right into it. Here's my conversation with my buddy Eric Fisher. Enjoy. |
| 2:53.9 | What's up, my friends? Graham Baldwin here. Welcome back to the Speaker Lab podcast. Hey, today I'm joined by my good buddy Eric Fisher from Beyond the To DoList. One of the more popular podcasts out there on the interwebs. If you haven't listened to it, you definitely want to check that out. But I wanted to have Eric on here today because I know for many of us, we're trying to build this speaking business. |
| 3:11.1 | We're trying to get started. We're trying to, maybe we're not getting started, but maybe we're just building and growing this speaking dream. And it just takes a lot of time to build something. And so whether that's, again, speaking or maybe you're working on a book or some type of project and you're trying to just have a lot |
| 3:07.7 | going on in life and it's hard to balance it. And so Eric's really good about teaching him on productivity and work-life balance. And so I thought he was definitely someone that we should have on the show to kind of talk this through. So Eric, what's up, brother? How are you today? Hey, I'm doing well. Thanks for having me. Good, good, man. Well, hey, |
| 3:22.1 | why don't you first of all, give us a quick nutshell on kind of who you are and what it is that you do. |
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