How to Find Financial Freedom and Flexibility with Shane Sams
The Speaker Lab Podcast
The Speaker Lab
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Genuine, authentic, relatable, down-to-earth — that is Shane Sams. He gave up his place at the front of the classroom after realizing he wanted to find a way to provide and have the ability to be present for the people who matter most in his life.
What started as making playbooks for coaches and lesson plans for teachers soon turned into a full-blown education company as Shane claimed the title of “online entrepreneur.” Soon after, he and his wife realized they could share their resources and entrepreneurial gifts to help other families take control of their income, gain freedom, and create a future. After selling his education company, Shane stepped into a new venture to help others monetize their knowledge, wisdom, and passion through membership sites.
It might surprise you to learn that Shane only started speaking two years ago! Shane had been podcasting for several years but hadn’t taken the stage. However, he knew that in order to grow his platform, he would need to begin speaking. Together, he and his family decided to go “all in” and give it a try. During the pandemic, Shane received a surprising offer that he simply couldn’t refuse, and the rest is history! Now, he’s speaking to thousands of people on stages larger than he ever could have imagined.
Shane learned to embrace everything about himself and what he could bring to his audience. He would say it took a lot of “reps” to get it right, but his intentional preparation allowed him to be ready for whatever came his way.
THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:
- How to stop your paycheck from owning you
- Why friendships and relationships are the keys to success
- Combining passion and purpose with a mission
- Why you must take control of your income to gain freedom
- Why you should podcast if you want to speak
- How to prepare for any opportunity that might come your way
- Why you have to be quick on your feet and ready to step up
- 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 speaklab.com slash marketing and we'll see you there. |
| 0:45.0 | Hey, hey, what's up? Frangbaldon here. So glad to have here with us today for episode 388 of |
| 0:53.6 | the speaker lab podcast. Today I'm joined by one of my very closest friends, Mr. Shane Sams. I am pumped about this conversation we're going to be having today. Shane is here to share his story and really his family story of leaving education, becoming an entrepreneur and speaker. And now I've had the privilege of hearing Shane's story behind the scenes because of our |
| 1:11.5 | friendship. We've known each other for several years, have done trips together and done life together. |
| 1:15.5 | But the speaking component of Shane's career is actually relatively new and is really taken |
| 1:19.5 | off at lightning speed in a very short amount of time. Now, one of the great things about Shane |
| 1:24.4 | is his ability to connect with people. The guy is just 100% authentic |
| 1:28.9 | and all in one ever comes to his family, his mission, and doing all that he can to be ready |
| 1:32.9 | when the opportunity comes his way, which is really the case with speaking. Now, Shane traded his |
| 1:38.4 | spot at the front of the classroom to create opportunities that would allow him to be present |
| 1:42.0 | for his family and provide for their future. In fact, in his early days, Shane and his wife started an education company that leaned into |
| 1:48.2 | their professional backgrounds as teachers, coaches, and a librarian. |
| 1:52.0 | And shortly after they saw the opportunity to help other families take control of their |
| 1:55.4 | income by monetizing their knowledge and passions with online membership sites. |
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