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The Speaker Lab Podcast

How to Develop Your Voice Through Speaking and Writing with Ann Handley

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 October 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever considered how to develop your voice through speaking and writing? Whether you are a speaker who wants to write or a writer who has a book to promote writing and speaking go hand in hand. Here to tell us more about this is Ann Handley.

Ann is the Chief Content Officer of MarketingProfs, she's also a best-selling author and a speaker. Today on The Speaker Lab she and Melanie are talking about writing and speaking are intertwined, how to find and refine your unique voice and the importance of showing up authentically on stage and in your content.

Episode 209 is also a different kind of episode: Melanie Diezel is back as our interviewer. We've done this once before and you all loved it so much we decided to do it again. Let us know if you want another Melanie-run interview and a repeat visit from Ann after you listen to this latest edition of The Speaker Lab! 

THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:  

  • What is the essence of public speaking?
  • What is the dirty truth of being an author?
  • Can we develop a strong sense of our own voice, even if we aren't writers?
  • What makes the best writing?
  • Is writing something only a few special people have been gifted with?
  • How does content play into building your speaking business?
  • What gave her the feedback to know she needed to write her second book?
  • What is a baby step you can take right now to experiment with writing?
  • 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.

0:48.6

Hey, what's up, my friend? Graham Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speak of lab podcast here

0:51.7

on episode 209. We've got a different kind of

0:55.7

episode today. We've only done this one other time. You liked it. You wanted more of it. So we're

0:59.8

back doing it again. Before we get to that and before I tell you what we're doing, let me remind you

1:04.8

if you haven't already, definitely check out our free training teaching you all about how to find

1:08.9

and book paid speaking engagements. You can do that by going over to free speakerworkshop.com, a free speakerworkshop.com. For many of you, maybe for you right now, you're driving on the road, you're making dinner, you're at the gym, and you're going, I've heard him mention that dang website so many times. Just go check it out. FreeSpeaker Workshop.com.

1:27.8

You want help finding a booking speaking engagements?

1:30.2

That's going to give you the plan, the system that you need.

1:32.1

Again, free speakerworkshop.

1:34.1

com.

1:34.7

Check it out.

1:35.9

Okay, so today, well, actually, let me take a step back.

1:38.5

Back in episode 195, we did something a little different where we had my co-host Melanie Diesel she came on and actually

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