How to Build a Life of Significance with Aaron Walker
The Speaker Lab Podcast
The Speaker Lab
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2017
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
If there's one thing nearly all entrepreneurs and business owners have in common it is the desire to live a life of significance. We want to do something that matters, something that makes a positive impact in the world. A great example of this is our guest on today's episode of The Speaker Lab, Mr. Aaron Walker.
Aaron has been self-employed and owned a business of some variety since the age of 18; he hasn't worked for anyone else in 38 years! In all of those years he has experienced the full spectrum of the entrepreneurial journey: the highs, the lows and everything in between. On our 133rd edition, he talks candidly about that journey, especially the life-altering experiences.
We also talk about his advice for managing the roller coaster ride of being your own boss, and why he came out of retirement to coach (including who encouraged him to do so!). Today Aaron Walker is a coach, best-selling author, podcaster and acclaimed speaker, and he's our guest on this edition of The Speaker Lab.
THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:
- Why does he love coaching the most of any of the 12 businesses he has owned?
- Why you have to give any idea at least two years.
- Is work-life balance a myth?
- The thing that holds most people back, and how to not let it stop you.
- What is the enemy to excellence?
- How and why should you get true and honest feedback?
- The power of promoting others: why it works and how to do it.
- How has he managed his focus in his businesses over the years?
- And so much more!
EPISODE RESOURCES
- Aaron Walker's website
- Aaron Walker's podcast
- View From The Top, by Aaron Walker
- Aaron Walker on Twitter
- The 12 Week Year by Brian P. Moran and Michael Lennington
- 7 Proven Steps to Finding And Booking Paid Speaking Engagements
- 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
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, friend, are you looking for ways to book more paid speaking gigs? |
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| 0:48.5 | Hey, what's up, my friends? Grant Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. We're on |
| 0:52.2 | episode 133. Today we're joined by a good friend of mine and mentor, someone that I really admire and respect. I think you're going to enjoy this conversation. Today, we're talking with my buddy Aaron Walker. Aaron is a guy that I've really looked up to and admired for many, many years. And is a guy that I jokingly and also very seriously tell my wife, Like this is the kind of guy that I want to be like when I grow up. He's an amazing entrepreneur, but more importantly than that, he's an amazing husband and father and just an all-around great guy. So every time we get together for lunch, he always challenges me, encourages me, inspires me. I think he's going to do the same for you today. So, you know, we don't talk a ton on specifically on speaking, |
| 1:28.5 | but we really dig into even just beyond the stage. How do you live a life of significance? |
| 1:33.6 | We talk about how he found a work life balance when he was building his business. He's been |
| 1:38.5 | a very successful in a lot of different industries, built multiple multi-million dollar companies. |
| 1:43.8 | And so we just kind of |
| 1:44.4 | talked that through about how he has balanced that as he's built those businesses. Talk about |
| 1:48.8 | not giving up and keeping a long-term perspective. We talk about how to focus in business and not |
| 1:53.2 | get distracted by the shiny objects, which I think we're all guilty of. So regardless of where |
| 1:57.4 | you're at in your speaking business, I think today is really going to help you out. Just give you some swim in the deep end ideas on what to consider your building your speaking business. |
| 2:05.7 | Hey, before we get into this conversation, let me remind you, I definitely encourage you to stop by and check out free speakerworkshop.com. if you are a brand new speaker, you're a veteran speaker, and you're just trying to figure |
| 2:15.1 | out how to find and book more paid speaking engagements, you definitely, again, want to stop |
| 2:19.4 | by free speakerworkshop.com and check that out. All right, let's get into it. Here's my conversation with my buddy Aaron Walker. Enjoy. What's up, my friend, Graham Baldwin here. Hey, today I'm joined by someone that I deeply admire and respect. |
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