How to Give a Memorable Speech with Hugh Culver

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The Speaker Lab

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4.8 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2017

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

What makes a speech a memorable one? Our guest for today knows! He says there are 5 keys you must include to make your speech memorable. Joining us for episode 120 is our repeat visitor and friend, Hugh Culver.

He was previously here for episode 10, which feels like an eternity ago! If you missed his first visit, Hugh is an adventurer turned speaker. He started out in the adventure travel industry and later became a speaker. For the last dozen years or so, he's been speaking to corporate audiences about productivity.

On today's show, Hugh tells us about the 5 things he's learned along the way that are needed to give a memorable speech. They are: solve a problem, warm up the audience, make the audience work, teach with stories and make your speech about them. Listen in for that and more on episode 119 of The Speaker Lab!

THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:

Why is your speech your best marketing tool?
What type of speeches don't pay and how can you avoid giving them?
What are the variables that go into making a good presentation?
Why it's okay to speak on a competitive topic.
Two tricks to find out what topics people are being paid to speak about.
The three phases of warming up an audience.
Why should you make your audience work during your speech?
What does it mean to be "situationally extroverted" and why does it matter?
The quick check to ensure you are making your speech about your audience.
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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0:48.5	What is some, my friends, Grant Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. I hope you're
0:52.2	doing well. On this day that this episode is released, it is Valentine's Day.
0:56.9	It's the day of love, my friends.
0:58.8	And I just love that you're here.
1:00.6	I'm celebrating our big awkward love.
1:03.8	Man, this is just, we've gone off the rails already.
1:07.3	I apologize for that.
1:08.5	It's actually my wife and I celebrated our wedding marriage love anniversary
1:13.1	just a couple days ago on February 9th. We've been married for 15 years, been together for 20
1:18.3	years. So I need some like cheering sound effect there or something, but we still really like
1:24.2	each other. So that's a win. Hey, we got a great guest for you. Before we get to
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1:32.4	free speakerworkshop.com. Every single week, we do a free training teaching you all about how to find
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