How to Focus and Adapt as a Speaker with Curt Steinhorst
The Speaker Lab Podcast
The Speaker Lab
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
How to focus and adapt as a speaker is one very important lesson everyone can learn, especially during a pandemic. Curt Steinhorst is an expert on focus and attention, and he's become adept at adapting thanks to the Covid-19 restrictions.
Curt speaks, writes and coaches on the science of attention. Specifically, he helps organizations and teams create a culture that fosters focus and attention. On today's The Speaker Lab, he tells us how he chose this area, he's pivoted and adjusted his speaking and other revenue streams during 2020, and what he plans to do in the near future.
You'll hear all of those topics and more on this edition of The Speaker Lab!
THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:
- How to balance what people are hiring for and what you want to talk about.
- What kind of emotional prep can help you with the ups and downs of building a speaking business?
- How can you utilize your past accomplishments as a foot in the door for speaking opportunities?
- What did he do when 90% of his revenue disappeared in one week?
- Why did he take an extra month off in the middle of the pandemic?
- How does virtual speaking fit into his business now and going forward?
- When did he hit his groove with speaking online?
- How far in advance are people booking speakers right now?
- And so much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, friend, are you looking for ways to book more paid speaking gigs? |
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| 0:36.3 | That's all one word. |
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| 0:39.3 | and register right now. We look forward to seeing you on the live training. |
| 0:53.8 | Hey, what's our friends? |
| 0:54.8 | Grant Baldwin here. |
| 0:55.4 | Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. |
| 0:57.2 | So good to have you here with us today on episode 326. |
| 0:59.8 | Hope you're having a great day wherever you are in the world. |
| 1:02.4 | We appreciate you being here. |
| 1:03.4 | Got another great awesome show for you. |
| 1:05.7 | We're going to be talking with Kurt Steinhorse about the science of attention. |
| 1:09.5 | Now specifically, we're going to talk about how he |
| 1:11.1 | helps teams create a culture that fosters focus and attention and how you as a speaker can get |
| 1:16.1 | more focus in your business as well. I'm going to tell you, this conversation gets good right |
| 1:20.5 | out of the gate. So buckle up Buttercup. One of the first things we're going to hit on is |
| 1:24.4 | navigating that balance between what you're passionate about as a speaker and what organizations are actually hiring speakers to talk about. It's attention that really every |
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