How to Be a Road Warrior
The Speaker Lab Podcast
The Speaker Lab
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2018
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Part of living the speaker life is travel, so today you'll find out how to be a true road warrior! Joining us to give her expert insights and wisdom is our co-host, Melanie Diezel. If you've been listening to The Speaker Lab for awhile you'll remember Melanie from some recent episodes: she is an outstanding speaker, coach and consultant on her own - and she also does a phenomenal job of coaching our Speaker Lab students.
And we had such terrific feedback from her recent appearances we decided to bring her back to the show. She's joining us for the next 3 episodes and we'll be talking about a few different topics.
Today we're covering how to be a road warrior, booking travel, packing essentials, travel perks and rewards. It's all things travel today as a speaker and road warrior! Join us for that and more on today's The Speaker Lab.
THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:
- Should you book your hotel or ask the client to do it for you?
- How far out should you book your travel?
- What is a tech tackle box?
- Why you should travel in clothes you could speak in.
- What is a travel one sheet and should you have your own?
- Why and how to choose one particular airline and its rewards program.
- Should you pay for TSA Pre-check and how can you get reimbursed for it?
- And so much more!
EPISODE RESOURCES
- Melanie Deziel's website
- Episode 73 of The Speaker Lab
- Episode 74 of The Speaker Lab
- AwardWallet app
- Episode 83 of The Speaker Lab
- TripIt
- FlightAware
- GateGuru
- Melanie Deziel on Twitter
- Melanie Deziel on Instagram
- Melanie Deziel on LinkedIn
- Find and contact potential gigs
- Get Free Speaker Resources
- Book a Call with The Speaker Lab
- Calculate Your Speaking Fee
- Join The Speaker Lab Community on Facebook
- Subscribe on Apple Podcasts
- Subscribe on Spotify
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, friend, are you looking for ways to book more paid speaking gigs? |
| 0:03.7 | Well, of course you are. |
| 0:04.4 | Maybe you're just starting out as a speaker. You're trying to figure out what to prioritize in order to get booked and paid as quickly as possible. Listen, if that's you, I want you to join us for a free live training where you're going to learn how to create the number one marketing asset that you need to consistently book more paid gigs. This is a tool that one speaker on our team used to book over $36,000 in paid gigs before he even had a website. |
| 0:27.2 | This training is free. |
| 0:28.1 | It's live and we offered a few times a week so you can find a time that works best for you. |
| 0:32.5 | All you got to do is head over to thespeakerlab.com slash get booked. |
| 0:36.3 | That's all one word. |
| 0:37.2 | Thespeakelab.com slash get booked. That's all one word, the speakerlap.com slash get booked |
| 0:39.3 | and register right now. We look forward to seeing you on the live training. |
| 0:49.9 | Hey, what's up, my friend? Grant Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. We are so glad |
| 0:53.4 | that you are here, glad that you are joining us. Hey, can I just come right out and ask for a favor? If you dig the podcast, if you listen to the podcast, would you do a couple things? Would you subscribe? That helps the show out. Would you also leave us a rating and review within iTunes? Helps other people to discover the show. And then finally, would you share it with one person? Don't you |
| 1:11.1 | have to share it with the world. I mean, don't give me wrong. You certainly can't if you want to. |
| 1:14.7 | But would you just share it with one person, someone who's interested in speaking and say, hey, I've been listening to this podcast. I think you might dig this. Go check this out. Send them the link. |
| 1:22.3 | All right. |
| 1:22.9 | That, |
| 1:23.0 | we really do |
| 1:24.0 | appreciate that. |
| 1:25.1 | All right. |
| 1:25.4 | So today, |
| 1:25.8 | actually we're |
| 1:26.3 | having our co-host |
| 1:27.7 | back. |
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