How to Be Yourself On Stage with Scott Stratten

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The Speaker Lab

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4.8 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2016

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Today Scott Stratten is a world-renowned keynote speaker, best-selling author and all-around awesome guy who is known by nearly everyone in the speaking community.

But did you know that in the early days of his career he flew around North America training people to sell bubble wrap?! As our guest on episode 77 of The Speaker Lab he shares that amazing story, and much more.

Scott also shares his earliest experiences as a corporate trainer after college, and why he chose that path. He explains the origin story of the video that catapulted him to speaker stardom and led to receiving 97 speaker invitations in two weeks!

Whether or not you ever create a viral video to aid your speaking career, Scott gives specific suggestions on how to get your start on this episode. We go into the how and when of leveling up your speaking career, once you've got your feet wet as a speaker. He is equal parts hilarious and wise today! Listen in to laugh along with us, and get a little wiser on episode 77 of The Speaker Lab.

THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:

Are many keynote speakers introverted or extroverted?
Why he has hired for his weaknesses.
Should every person you bring on to your team be an extension of you?
The importance of having tact and empathy, no matter what happens.
What are his two demands he includes in every contract?
What is his biggest fear as a speaker?
Why you must "show your work" before you can increase your fees.
What two things will all speakers eventually learn firsthand?
And so much more!

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Transcript

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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.
0:19.6	Even better, we're going to teach you exactly how
0:22.1	to create that tool for your speaking business in under an hour. For a limited time, we're going to
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 speaklab.com slash marketing and we'll see you there. What is done, my friends? Welcome
0:48.5	back to the speaker lab podcast. My name is Grant Baldwin. Good to have you here with us today.
0:52.8	Life is treating you good.
1:00.7	We are here in the U.S., at least as of yesterday. We celebrated our Independence Day for the July where we blow stuff up and waste stupid amounts of money blowing stuff up. And I don't know.
1:07.8	Yeah, whatever. Anyway, I know my family and I we had a good time. I hope you
1:11.9	had a good time. Hope you were safe. Hope you didn't blow anything up that you shouldn't have. Anyway, let's get into today's episode. Today we got a great episode. We got a conversation with my buddy Scott Stratton. Scott is a speaker does a lot in the corporate world. I've been speaking for many, many years, bestselling author of the
1:28.4	book, Unmarketing, a couple other books we touch on as well. But just all around cool dude. And we talk a lot about how he got started, how he built his business. What is the industry today? What is it like? And lessons he's learned along the way. So just a great conversation. Really, really enjoyed this chat. Scott and I have had several chats offline. This one we decided to record and share with you.
1:47.6	So this was great conversation. Really, really enjoyed this chat. Scott and I have had
1:44.2	several chats offline. This one, we decided to record and share with you. So this was a lot of fun.
1:48.7	So let's get into it. Here's my conversation with Speaker and all around cool cat, Scott Stratton.
1:54.8	Enjoy.
1:58.6	What's up, my friends? Welcome back to the Speaker Lab podcast. Grant Baldwin here. I'm joined
2:01.8	today by my buddy Scott Stratton, who is a speaker author all around good dude and a very sexy dude. I'm just going to go ahead and float that out there. He has more hair than I could ever imagine to have. But a great guy, great speaker. I'm honored to have him hang out with us today. So, Scott, how are you today?
2:16.5	And that's only the hair you can see.
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