How To Find Your Core Speaking Message with Dan Miller
The Speaker Lab Podcast
The Speaker Lab
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2016
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode of The Speaker Lab, I'm sitting down with accomplished author and speaker Dan Miller to talk about his personal business model and his other endeavors, and of course his speaking career.
Dan offers his sage-like advice on how to decide which audience will respond your message the best, and also how he made the transition from speaking as an "extra" in his business to speaking professionally.
Listen in to hear all of that and so much more on this episode of The Speaker Lab!
THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW
- How you can find your core message.
- How can you decide where to go to speak?
- Dan's journey to becoming a professional speaker.
- Can speaking for free help you?
- How can you use resources to your advantage?
- Which should come first- the products or the speaking?
- The importance of having stories in your speaking.
- Dan's "it can't be worse than this" stories!
- And much, much more!
EPISODE RESOURCES
- Dan Miller's website
- Dan Miller on Twitter
- Dan Miller on How Did You Get Into That?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, friend, are you looking for ways to book more paid speaking gigs? |
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| 0:49.0 | What is up, my friend? Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. My name is Grant. It's good to have you here with us today. Hope you doing well. Hope life is treating you well. Can I enunciate your words there as a speaker. Hey, today we've got a great show for you. One of the thing before we get into it, I want to remind you that we have got a new webinar that we're doing where we're talking all about the art of speaking and teaching you about developing your talk, presentation skills, using humor, storytelling, all of that stuff. So you're going to want to register for that. It's totally free webinar. You can go to art of speakingwebinar.com. Again, that is art of speakingwebinar.com. We're going to do, I think we've got one more coming up in a couple days, so you're going to make sure you want to register for that as soon as possible. Even if you are listening to this way off end of the future, you can still register for that. You can get the replay of that webinar. So again, you can go to art of speakingwebinar.com. Not only am I going to teach you some of my best strategies and tactics on |
| 1:45.0 | delivering presentation, practicing, rehearsing, developing your talk, all of that goodness and |
| 1:50.2 | good stuff. We're also going to be doing some live Q&A. So if you have any questions about the |
| 1:54.5 | art of speaking presentation skills, all that jazz, make sure again that you register for that |
| 1:59.0 | over at art of speakingwe.com, art of speaking |
| 2:02.6 | webinar.com. If you're in the gym or driving down the road and you can't write that down, |
| 2:07.2 | hey, definitely go check out the show notes for this episode later. And there you can find the link |
| 2:11.8 | to register for that, art of speaking webinar.com. All right, enough about that. Hey, let's get into |
| 2:15.9 | today's episode. Today, we're joined by |
| 2:17.5 | my buddy Dan Miller. Dan is an author and speaker. You may know him from the book 48 days to the work you love. It's a New York Times bestselling book. That book had a huge impact in my own life, and I've been privileged to hang out with Dan quite a bit and become a friend of his, and so I'm excited to chat with him today. But with Dan, we talk about speaking how he got into speaking, |
| 2:37.5 | how speaking fits into his current business and his business model because he's someone who does a lot of different things. And I think for a lot of people who may be listening to this, I think you may be in a similar spot where some of you may want to speak full-time and some of you may say, |
| 2:51.8 | hey, I want to be a speaker, I want to be an author, I want to be a blog or a podcast or a coach, |
| 2:55.9 | consultant. And Dan is someone who does all of these different things. So we talk about how speaking |
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