How to Create a Lasting Speaking Career with Harriet Turk

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The Speaker Lab

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

4.8 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2016

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Have you considered creating a lifelong speaking career? Whether you've pondered your speaking longevity or you just want to break into the speaking world, you'll hear about both topics from Harriet Turk, our guest on today's show.

Harriet has been speaking in the youth and education areas for nearly two and a half decades, earning her stars and stripes along the way.

On episode 82 of The Speaker Lab, Harriet Turk joins us to talk about her lengthy career as a speaker, how she got started and what it's like to be a female speaker then versus today. She explains why relationships and connections with other speakers are so vital to your career.

You'll get to hear the wisdom she's earned, and so much more on today's edition of The Speaker Lab.

THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:

Why it's so important to learn the art of storytelling.
Can your audience really only handle 3-5 points?
What is the market like for female speakers today?
What would Harriet do differently if she were building her business now?
Can you work locally and be successful, or must you always travel the country?
How does she maintain a balance between speaking and being a single mom?
How to build your network when you're starting out.
Harriet's real-life story of the importance of building and fostering friendships with other speakers.
And so much more!

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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 speakakerlab.com slash marketing. That's what you got to do is go to the speakerlab.com slash marketing and we'll see you there.
0:48.8	What is up, my friends? Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. Grant Baldwin here. Good to have
0:52.6	you here with us today. We are on episode 82 talking with a good speaker friend of mine. We're going to get into that in
0:58.9	just a second. But let me quickly remind you, if you haven't already, you're definitely going to
1:02.2	want to join us on an upcoming free online training or webinar, teaching you all about how to find
1:07.8	in book speaking engagement. So we have these webinars on a just about
1:11.2	weekly basis. You can go to free speakerworkshop.com. Again, that is free speakerworkshop.com
1:17.3	where we teach you all about how to find and book speaking engagements, paid speaking engagements as
1:21.8	well. So definitely check that out over a free speakerworkshop.com. Register for that. All right. So today we're talking with my good
1:29.3	friend Harriet Turk. Whenever I first started speaking, Harriet was someone that I met. I've learned a lot
1:33.9	from. I have a great admiration and respect for. She's been in the game for a long time.
1:38.7	She knows her stuff. So I'm excited to share this conversation, this journey with you today, all about how she got into it,
1:46.7	how she built the business, and how she continues to build and grow her speaking business today.
1:51.0	So let's get into it.
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