How to Have A Showtime Mindset with Dustin Portillo

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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

🗓️ 5 November 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

“Don’t conform to your environment. Everyone else does it, but you need to take that path, that uniqueness that is you, because there is no one like you.”

As a former circus clown (yes, an actual circus clown), Dustin Portillo knows a thing or two about showtime. And now as a professional speaker, Dustin has taken that mindset and applied it to delivering value for audiences everywhere.

This week, Dustin is here to share the lessons he learned from his wide-ranging career and give you some practical tips on things like mastering stage presence, keeping audiences engaged, and what it takes to leave a corporate job to become a full time speaker.

We'll spend time walking through his 5 important principles and why determining what's important to you, really matters. Dustin also talks about some of the most scary moments you can have in the industry and how they can propel you to bigger & better things.

You’ll learn:

The importance of knowing your audience
Why your value is more than a job title
How to always have a "showtime mindset"
How being relatable can help you excel as a speaker
How to embrace the value of growth
And much more!

"Don’t knock on a wall expecting a door to open”

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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?
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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 speakelab.com slash marketing and we'll see you there. You should not become complacent because when you become complacent, you don't learn,
1:01.3	you don't move forward. And one of the worst things a human can say is, I don't like change.
1:07.2	Well, I hate to say this, but everything's changing around you. And it's the old phrase,
1:12.1	the only constant has changed. But listen to your intuition, that gut instinct of where you want to go.
1:23.1	Hey, Frang, Graham Baldwin here. And I am really pumped to bring you a really fascinating
1:27.1	conversation with Dustin Portillo.
1:29.6	Dustin has a awesome and certainly unique story of going from being a clown, yes, an actual clown circus performer to being a full-time public speaker.
1:38.8	On today's episode of the Speaker Lab podcast, Dustin is here to share the lessons that he gained from that experience, share a lot of practical tips that I think you're going to find really helpful on things like mastering,
1:47.6	stage presence, keeping audience engaged, and also what it takes to leave a corporate job to
1:52.1	become a full-time speaker. This is a really fun, entertaining conversation that I know you're
1:56.2	going to enjoy. So without further ado, let's get to it. Here's this week's conversation
2:00.1	with Dustin Portillo.
2:08.7	Hey, friends, Grant Bolden here. Welcome back to the Speak Al-Lab podcast. Today we're going to be
2:11.8	chatting with Dustin Portillo and excited to hear his story and journey about how he's really been
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