How to be an Inspirational Comedian with Judson Laipply
The Speaker Lab Podcast
The Speaker Lab
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2016
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Our guest today is from an exclusive club: he's the proud creator of one of the most viewed videos on YouTube! Judson Laipply is our guest and he is known as "The Evolution Dance" guy.
He's here to talk about the video by the same name, as well as how his own speaking career as he evolved through the years.
On episode 107 of The Speaker Lab, Judson shares how he started as a speaker in high school, the mentorship that helped him build his career and where his dance video fits into it all.
You'll hear all of that and so much more on today's edition of The Speaker Lab.
THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:
- Who knocked Judson off the top of the most viewed list on YouTube?
- What market has the simplest barrier to entry?
- What can the musical Hamilton teach you about speaking?
- Why did he start offering "inspirational comedy" as a speaker?
- What percentage of your speech will audiences remember?
- The #1 question to ask yourself when speaking to college students.
- What are the two reasons people hire a speaker?
- What is his advice when entering into a new market?
- And so much more!
EPISODE RESOURCES
- Judson Laipply's web site
- Judson Laipply on Twitter
- The Evolution of Dance video
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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 speakelab.com slash marketing and we'll see you there. |
| 0:44.6 | What is up, my friend, Graham Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. Hope |
| 0:51.8 | you're doing well. Hope you're having a great day. We got a great guest for you today hanging out on the Speaker Lab podcast. Hey, whether you are brand new to speaking, you are just getting started. Maybe you've been doing this for a little while. You're trying to figure out how to get paid more or how to just book more gigs. Maybe you're looking to figure out how to build your business beyond the stage through books or consulting or coaching wherever you're at in your |
| 1:11.7 | speaking business or journey really are glad that you're here and hanging out with us. |
| 1:15.8 | Hey, one quick thing I'll mention to you. |
| 1:17.5 | If you haven't already, we do a free, just about weekly live training, teaching you all |
| 1:23.8 | about how to find and book speaking engagements. |
| 1:26.3 | So if you haven't joined us for one of |
| 1:27.8 | those before, I would highly recommend you come hang out with us. You can register for that by going |
| 1:32.1 | over to free speakerworkshop.com. Again, that is free speakerworkshop.com. Register for the next one. |
| 1:38.8 | Again, totally free, totally live. And that way we can hang out, connect online. I can answer any of your |
| 1:42.9 | questions about speaking and I'll kind of walk you through a step-by-step planning system on how to find in-book paid speaking engagement. So definitely register for that. Again, go over to freespeakerworkshop.com. All right, so today we've got my buddy, Jetson Leapley, that's hanging out with us. If you have ever seen the YouTube video, the evolution of dance, |
| 2:02.2 | you remember that? Remember that video? The guy that did the dancing and kind of went through all |
| 2:05.7 | different types of dancing. That's him. All right. So he is done a lot of speaking and was using |
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