How to Find Your Strengths As A Speaker with Josh Shipp

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The Speaker Lab

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

4.8 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

“I might not be world class ever, ever, but I’m definitely gonna be way better than I was on my own, and without the reps.”

Josh Shipp has had a brilliant career providing knowledge to thousands of people. Today, he joins us to talk about the hard work of making it as a speaker, how to find your strengths, and what you should know at the start of your journey.

Josh has frequently worked in the education space with parents, teachers, and students. In fact, he even founded a company dedicated to this training called Youth Speaker University. Josh is here to talk about how to break into this space and why what you do matters on and off stage.

Josh also has some great insights to share about drawing inspiration, the great thing about individualism, and learning from your failures. Thoughtfully targeting your niche and your goals is something you have to learn, and Josh is here to walk you through it.

You’ll learn:

The common denominator of successful speakers
Why endurance & self reflection matters
How there are negatives and positives with innovation
What you can learn from criticism
How to identify your main topic to speak about
And so much more!

“You can learn a ton from those 3 out of 4 that don’t book you.”

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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.
1:04.0	Pattern recognition across dozens hundreds of speakers thousands of paid gigs is that your first hundred bookings are going to be harder than your next thousand you know those first
1:09.6	hundred are going to be a grind.
1:11.4	You often have to beg that you often have to get creative.
1:14.4	It often doesn't go that well.
1:16.7	And the skill you learn on the business side and the mastery you get through the reps on stage
1:24.3	will make those next hundreds and hundreds a delight.
1:35.7	Hey, what's up, fringe, Grant Baldwin here.
1:37.3	Welcome back to the Speak Lab podcast.
1:38.8	Hey, I'm super excited about today's conversation.
1:41.1	I say that about all of them, but this one's particularly excited because this guy was massively, massively influential in me even just getting to this point. And so
1:50.5	today we're talking with a good friend Josh Ship. And before we really intro him, let me go back in time
1:56.5	because years ago, early 2000s, I was like, I want to be a speaker. I don't know how to do this. And this was like, there were no books, there are no podcasts, there are no trainings. There's nothing to help someone figure out how to be a speaker. So I found myself emailing other speakers, stalking other speakers, harassing other speakers. Spamming, we call it, grand spamming is what I was doing and josh was certainly he was and still is the goat
2:18.8	certainly in the the education the youth market and so i was like i want to be like ship which is what
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