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The Speaker Lab Podcast

How To Build A Speaking Business While Working Full-Time (without losing your mind or your job)

The Speaker Lab Podcast

The Speaker Lab

Authors, Public Speakers, Public Speaking, How To, Marketing, Smallbusiness, Coaching, Education, Entrepreneurship, Speaking, Business, Side Gig

4.8575 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2020

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Don't quit your day job to start a speaking career. Begin building your speaking business on the side.

During this Speaking Workshop, We Cover:

  • The 7 things you must clarify from the outset
  • Where to spend your time and money as you get started (and where not to)
  • The one thing you CANNOT do while trying to grow your speaking business
  • Why not all full-time jobs are created equal
  • Why your plan should take into consideration the type of boss you have
  • The change levers you can pull to set yourself up for success
  • Live Q&A at the end with Grant and Erick


We answer the following questions:

  • Which one of the 4 full-time job types are you in?
  • Which one of the 4 types of bosses do you have? (This is a fun one to answer.)
  • Which one of the 3 life phases are you in?
  • Which one of the 4 career phases are you in?
  • Which one of these 4 financial situations sounds closest to yours?
  • What are your speaking goals? (We’ll help you make some if you don’t have any!)
  • What changes are you truly willing to make?


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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 speak speakerlab.com slash marketing. That's what you got to do is go to the speakerlab.com slash marketing and we'll see you there.

0:50.9

It's up, my friend, Grant Baldwin here. Welcome back to the Speaker Lab podcast. So good to have you here with us.

0:55.4

I hope you're having a great day. We're excited to bring you this bonus episode. So just recently,

1:01.0

our director of education, Eric Ream and myself, we put together this training on how to build a

1:06.5

speaking business while working full time without losing your mind or your job. And so we know for a lot of people that may be listening, people that follow the speak a lab, you're building your speaking business. You're working on becoming that successful speaker that you desire and dream to be, but you're also balancing the reality of you have to work. You have to eat and live indoors. And so therefore, you've got that full-time job you're trying to balance it with. And so because of that, Eric and I put together this training where we talk through, how do you build your speaking business, regardless of your phase of life or career that you're in? We talk about how do you clarify your reality, is that proper speaking goals. We also dig into the seven keys to building your speaking business while working a full-time job, where to focus your time and energy, and when you can actually quit your job and be a full-time speaker. Now, for context sake, Eric and I actually did this in an online training with slides. So obviously, you know, via audio, you can't see the slides. But we thought, man, this is really, really good content. we want to make sure that we share this with everyone. And so we want to include it here on the podcast. And just so you kind of know the flow, for a couple minutes, I dig into some introduction on stuff. And then Eric and I do some training for quite a while. We tell a little bit about our elite program. We know a lot of people are interested in that. And so talk a little bit about that. In fact, if you're interested in learning more about the elite program and how we can help you build

2:20.4

and grow your business, then just go to the speakerlab.com slash call. Again, that is the speakerlab.com slash call. And then at the end, we spent about a half hour just doing Q&A on all types of different topics related to virtual speaking and finding and booking gigs on figuring out who you speak to,

2:37.5

what you speak about. on all types of different topics related to virtual speaking and finding and booking gigs

2:35.8

on figuring out who you speak to, what you speak about, how COVID and the coronavirus has

2:40.5

affected the speaking industry, what the long-term implications of that.

2:43.8

So again, a lot of Q&A at the end as well.

2:45.7

That's really, really helpful and valuable.

2:47.4

So a lot of stuff to get into.

2:49.1

I think you're really going to enjoy this.

2:50.2

So sit back and enjoy this bonus episode with myself and Eric Green.

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