How to Be Married to a Speaker (Part II) with Sheila Baldwin

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4.8 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This is my favorite guest we've ever had and ever will have: my wife! We are talking with Sheila Baldwin, my other half.

Sheila was previously here with us on episode 60, and we're bringing her back for part two today. We'll talk about how to be married to a speaker: what Sheila's role has been in my business, what it's really like for her when I travel, how we divide up chores and what we like to do for fun.

You'll hear Sheila give her thoughts on those topics and more today. Please enjoy this conversation with me and my wife on this episode of The Speaker Lab!

THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW

What was it like to make the transition from full-time work into self-employment as a speaker?
Will there ever be the perfect time?
How did we stay connected while I traveled for speaking gigs?
How can you stay fully present when you are at home?
When Sheila has been kept separate from my business, and why.
What challenges has she witnessed as the business has evolved over the years?
Did she ever want me to give up speaking?
Why does she have me do my own laundry?
And 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?
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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.
0:44.7	What is up, my friends? Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. We are so glad you're here.
0:52.2	We are here on episode 2011. That is right.
0:55.0	We crossed the double, what is the double century mark. So if you haven't already, make sure
0:59.8	you go back and listen to episode 200 from last week where we talked with over 20 different top
1:05.7	speakers in the industry just to hear what are their best tips, tricks, strategies for building and growing their speaking
1:11.6	business. So make sure you go check that out again. That's episode 200. But do that later because right now
1:16.5	we are in episode 201 talking to hands down my favorite guest we have ever had or will ever
1:23.5	have into the future. So today we were talking with my lovely wife miss sheila baldwin
1:29.5	and so excited to have her on we had her on back in episode 60 of the podcast and bringing her back
1:36.2	for part two we took several questions that you guys had submitted and talked with her on some
1:41.6	of these things and also a couple questions for us so today we're going to talk about how we navigated marriage and parenting while building a business. We talked about what her role has been in my business. We also talk about how we have always stayed connected while I'm traveling. We talk about how we divide up household chores, which is one thing you guys want to know as well as what it is that we like to do for fun. So a lot of good
2:00.9	stuff here. I think you're really going to enjoy this conversation. Again, my favorite
2:04.6	guest we've ever had or will ever have into the future. Please enjoy this conversation with my
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