How to Leverage Your Creative Gifts in a Speaking Career with Mike Montague

The Speaker Lab Podcast

The Speaker Lab

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

4.8 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

It’s not every day that a game show host comes onto The Speaker Lab podcast. But this is your lucky day! For this episode, Mike Montague joins Grant for an exciting conversation about how he balances podcasting, speaking, game show hosting, and his job for a prominent sales and leadership training company. While some might have a specific vision of what it means to be a speaker, for Mike it means any time he’s behind a microphone. He knows how to bring the party to whatever kind of event he’s leading, whether it’s a corporate seminar for a multinational company or a keynote where he’s throwing water balloons at the audience.

Mike strikes an unusual balance for a speaker, as he has multiple ongoing employment contracts on top of his independent speaking business. As a result, this episode offers a great deal of insight into managing multiple streams of income. Most speakers scale and diversify their business at some point, so even if you’re not at that point yet, it can be really helpful to hear what that process is like for someone as multi-talented as Mike.

Deciding whether to go all-in on entrepreneurship is a tough decision with many factors. Family, finances, and prior commitments can all impact the decision. Whether you like the stability of having one employer or you enjoy juggling multiple jobs at once, Mike’s story will certainly have some insights for you.

You’ll also learn all about:

Coping when your dream job isn’t everything you thought it would be.
How to create contracts with your employer that allow you freedom in your speaking business.
How to shake off imposter syndrome by getting comfortable in your niche.
When it’s time to take risks with your audience.
What it’s like to audition for game show gigs.
How to write a game show script.
…and so much more!

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0:00.0	Hey, friend, are you looking for ways to book more paid speaking gigs?
0:03.7	Well, of course you are.
0:04.4	Maybe you're just starting out as a speaker. You're trying to figure out what to prioritize in order to get booked and paid as quickly as possible. Listen, if that's you, I want you to join us for a free live training where you're going to learn how to create the number one marketing asset that you need to consistently book more paid gigs. This is a tool that one speaker on our team used to book over $36,000 in paid gigs before he even had a website.
0:27.2	This training is free.
0:28.1	It's live and we offered a few times a week so you can find a time that works best for you.
0:32.5	All you got to do is head over to thespeakerlab.com slash get booked.
0:36.3	That's all one word.
0:37.2	Thespeakelab.com slash get booked and register right now.
0:41.1	We look forward to seeing you on the live training.
0:50.6	Hey, what's up, French, Grant Baldwin.
0:52.0	Here's so glad to have you here with us for the Speaka Lab podcast, episode 456, where I'm going to be joined by Mike Montague, a speaker, podcaster, and game show host. Yes, that's something a little different that we haven't had before. Mike's a pretty unconventional guy, but we speakers are an unconventional bunch. So that should really come as no surprise. He's a man of many talents.
1:11.9	He hosts a podcast called Playful Humans,
1:14.3	helping burned out people figure out how to have fun again and play for a living.
1:18.7	If you need someone to spice up an otherwise boring workshop, seminar, corporate event,
1:22.9	by adding a little bit of fun and a little bit of magic,
1:24.7	you definitely want to have Mike on your radar.
1:27.4	Now, some speakers love being their own boss, being total solopreneurs, but others like having
1:33.1	the stability of an employer. And Mike is actually one of those guys, though it doesn't
1:37.0	detract from his entrepreneurial drive at all. So on top of his game show gigs, his personal speaking
1:42.3	and podcasting, Mike works for a prominent sales and
1:44.8	leadership company heading up their content marketing department. Now, with so much going on,
1:49.3	he has to really take great care to manage his calendar, make sure that every gig is worthwhile.
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