How to Face the Grind of Building a Business with Erick Rheam
The Speaker Lab Podcast
The Speaker Lab
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
If you've been in the speaking business for long, you know that it's not easy! Building a successful and sustainable speaking business is a grind. It takes a lot of sweat equity, patience, and intentionality to make it in this industry, but if you put in the work, there are some incredible opportunities for growth in every season.
This week, Erick Rheam is back to share practical advice on how to navigate the grind of building your business. Erick introduces the idea of a "power hour," shares how to navigate the good and bad days, and reminds us that even though every day will not be our best, consistency matters!
As someone who has built a highly successful speaking business, Erick navigates the ins and outs of the speaking industry every day. No matter where you are in your speaking journey, you'll benefit from Erick's experience and passion for equipping others to find their success on the stage. This is a conversation you won’t want to miss!
Here's what you’ll learn from this episode:
- Why it’s possible to have a “grind” that is enjoyable and totally worth it
- How to fall in love with the process
- What are you willing to suffer for?
- Why buy-in matters from your spouse or partner
- How to apply what you’re learning
- Determining the actions that will further your business
- Why consistency impacts clarity
- And 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. |
| 0:38.4 | That's what you got to do is go to the speakelab.com slash marketing and we'll see you there. |
| 0:49.3 | Hey, what's our friends? Grant Baldwin here. So glad to have you here with us today for episode |
| 0:52.8 | 411 of the Speakelab podcast. Today I'm going to be joined by the one and only your friend in mind, Mr. Eric |
| 0:59.6 | Ream. Now, he's a regular here on the show and a member of the Speak Alab family. Always a pleasure |
| 1:04.1 | to welcome him and provide the opportunity for our listeners to learn from his vast experience. |
| 1:08.8 | Today, Eric is going to be guiding us through a conversation about the grind of building |
| 1:12.0 | and sustaining a successful speaking business. |
| 1:14.8 | So whether you're just getting started or you've been at it for a while, there's always |
| 1:18.1 | going to be pieces to the entrepreneurial journey that keep us on our toes. |
| 1:21.9 | Now, some days are going to be going great. |
| 1:23.4 | Other days are going to be super challenging, but it's all worth it in the end. |
| 1:27.2 | During our conversation, we're going to talk super challenging, but it's all worth it in the end. During our conversation, |
| 1:28.2 | we're going to talk about the difference between speakers who make it and those who don't, |
| 1:31.8 | how to commit to your business on the worst and best of days. And also, Eric's going to be |
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