How to Build The Perfect Speaking Career For You with Ryan Vet

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4.8 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

“Whenever someone comes up and says ‘Hey, why am I not getting booked to speak?’, my first question is 'how many professionals did you call today?'"

One of the best parts about being a speaker is that YOU get to decide what your speaking career looks like. Your story is unique, and the value you bring to your audience is something only you can deliver. This week, Ryan Vet joins us on the show to talk about how he found his way to a speaking career that was perfect for his strengths and passions.

Ryan got his start as a speaker when he was still in high school, and he hasn't looked back since. And while everyone often thinks of paid speaking as being primarily keynotes, Ryan points out that the majority of paid gigs are often other formats. For his part, Ryan fell in love with training and found it incredibly fulfilling to help people immediately make changes in their lives and companies. During this episode, he shares some practical advice on how to find the path that is right for you — along with some horror stories and funny moments from his new book, Speak Goodr.

This is a solid episode that will encourage you to take the next (or first!) step in your speaking journey!

You’ll learn:

How to be clear about your message
Why you should embrace who you are as a speaker
How to be thoughtful when it comes to your business
What benefits come from watching your game tapes
Why you need to figure out your ideal persona
And much, much more!

“You have to solve a problem with what you sell.”

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0:00.0	Hey, friend, are you looking for ways to book more paid speaking gigs?
0:03.7	Well, of course you are.
0:04.4	Maybe you're just starting out as a speaker. You're trying to figure out what to prioritize in order to get booked and paid as quickly as possible. Listen, if that's you, I want you to join us for a free live training where you're going to learn how to create the number one marketing asset that you need to consistently book more paid gigs. This is a tool that one speaker on our team used to book over $36,000 in paid gigs before he even had a website.
0:27.2	This training is free.
0:28.1	It's live and we offered a few times a week so you can find a time that works best for you.
0:32.5	All you got to do is head over to thespeakerlab.com slash get booked.
0:36.3	That's all one word.
0:37.2	Thespeakelab.com slash get booked. That's all one word, the speakerlap.com slash get
0:38.8	booked and register right now. We look forward to seeing you on the live training.
1:00.0	And I think that's the other big thing about humor that I've had to learn. Like, people aren't always gonna laugh at your jokes.
1:02.0	And you either can make fun of yourself for that, which sometimes, not always, but sometimes
1:06.0	can get you out of it.
1:07.0	Or you just keep going and ignore that it ever happened.
1:09.0	What happens when someone, especially with humor, and I found, and I'm speaking more to preaching to the choir here, if you pause on it or get hung up when something falls flat, the audience is watching you. And it's like a dog, right? A dog runs into a room and goes to the person who does not want to pet the dog. It's just what dogs do. your audience is going to go to that thing that you don't want them to go to if you dwell on it. And so you just have to keep going. Hey, what's up for Inge? Grant Bolden here. Welcome back to the Speaker Lab podcast. Hey, excited for today's conversation. We're going to be talking with professional speaker, Ryan Vett. And also talking about a new book he's got out for speakers that's going to be really relevant so Ryan thanks for
1:48.0	joining us station. We're going to be talking with professional speaker Ryan Vett. And also talking about a new book he's
1:44.8	got out for speakers. That's going to be really relevant. So Ryan, thanks for joining us today. Thanks for having me, Grant. All right. So first of all, let's get a little background and context here. You've been speaking for a while, but also like you got started a while ago and then kind of took a a decade detour and then kind of got back into it
2:01.5	in the past couple of years or so.
2:02.9	So maybe take us back in time. So you got started a while ago and then kind of took a decade detour and then kind of got
2:00.9	back into it in the past couple of years or so.
2:02.9	So maybe take us back in time there.
2:05.1	Like what first got you into speaking?
2:07.4	Yeah, great question.
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