How to Bring Humor Into Your Speeches with Patrick Henry

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🗓️ 17 October 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Do you know how to bring humor into your speeches, and do it a way that amuses your audience but still conveys your message? Our guest for episode 155 does, and he tells all today.

On today's show, Patrick Henry and I talk about how to use humor in your speeches, build relationships with other speakers, and why it's important.

Patrick Henry is an author, songwriter, and performance keynote speaker who partners with meeting planners to make meetings memorable.

As a former Nashville songwriter and humorist on the SiriusXM Radio Family Comedy Channels, Patrick brings a unique blend of humor, music, and message to his audiences to create an event that is full of energy and actionable ideas.

His Book The Pancake Principle: seventeen sticky ways to make your customers flip for you was released in 2013 and he will soon be featured on a comedy album alongside Jeff Foxworthy, Steve Martin, Larry the Cable Guy, and Jeanne Robertson.

One of Patrick’s audience members best described him as “what happens when, keynotes, comedy, and concerts collide.”

Patrick also tells the story of why he thought his first speaking gig as a performance! It's a fun tale you'll want to hear on episode 155 of The Speaker Lab.

THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:

Where are the best speakers born? Hint: There are only two.
When does Patrick advocate speaking for free?
Why you should give 100 speeches before you start charging.
How many new bookings should you get from giving one good speech?
Two reasons why you aren't getting as many gigs as you'd like.
Why bureaus should only be a slice of your speaking pie.
How to start networking with other speakers.
What's the best way to form your own mastermind group?
How can you get your foot in the door with a speaking bureau?
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 speakelab.com slash marketing and we'll see you there.
0:48.9	Hey, what's up, my friends? Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. Grant Baldwin here. Really
0:52.1	do appreciate you hanging out with us. Hope you having a great day. All right, we've got another great guest for you today. We're trying to just line up just awesome killer guests after guest after guests. We're trying to really just bring you some top-notch people that can really help you move the needle in your speaking business. So whether you are brand new or you've been at this for years or wherever you are in your speaking journey, I think you're really going to enjoy today's guest. Now, before we get to that, let me remind you if you haven't stopped by already, make sure you check out free speakerworkshop.com, a free speakerworkshop.com. This is an online training that we do on a daily basis, just teaching you exactly how to find and book paid speaking engagement. So we'd love for you to register for that. Check that out again. It's totally free. Check it out again over at free speakerworkshop.com, a free speakerworkshop.com. All right, so let's get to today's guest. Today we are talking with Patrick Henry. And Patrick is a speaker that I've known for actually nearly a decade now. We
1:44.5	actually got started at a similar time and working with a similar organization. You're going to
1:48.4	hear a little bit of that story today. And Patrick is a guy who's gone on to speak at some
1:53.2	amazing conferences and events all over the world. Actually, we start by talking about he has a
1:57.8	very common name, Patrick Henry. So his website is actually Patrickhenryspeaker.com.
2:02.8	So we talk about how do you pick a URL, pick a website domain when you have a really common
2:07.2	name. We also talk about the importance of wording when positioning yourself. So positioning
2:12.6	yourself as a speaker versus a comedian or a humorous versus a comedian or a speaker versus a musician.
2:19.4	So we talk through that today. We talk about how he incorporates music into his speaking.
2:24.0	It's definitely something that differentiates him from the crowd. And then we also talk about
2:27.9	how he networks with other speakers and how he shares referrals with other speakers.
2:32.8	Building relationships with other speakers is one of the best
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