How to Maximize Your Time to Build a Speaking Career You Love w/ Shailesh Ghimire [Student Highlight]

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

🗓️ 15 August 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Many speakers lean gradually into speaking. Still others stumble upon it unexpectedly. And still others find their passion and talent early on in life with the help of formative family members–like Shailesh Ghimire. Shailesh is our latest Student Highlight guest on The Speaker Lab podcast, and he shares his story on episode 459 with Maryalice Goldsmith, our director of student success. Today, Shailesh is a speaker, podcaster, and marketing expert with a background in physics. But years ago, he was a fourth grader preparing and delivering presentations for his dad, who loved and respected the fields of public speaking and debate. Thanks to those early years learning how to speak in front of an audience, Shailesh has never struggled with stage fright to this day.

While Shailesh’s dad helped set him on the road to public speaking, it took him some time to move beyond treating speaking like a hobby on top of his successful marketing business. But ultimately, as he attests, everybody has the same 24 hours in a day–and he refocused his time to prioritize building a speaking business. That’s where The Speaker Lab comes in! Shailesh walks Maryalice through how our program offered him structure and consistency while leaving lots of room for independent initiative and creating your own systems. For example, unlike most speakers, Shailesh relies primarily on email for lead outreach rather than phone calls. This requires a unique set of systems for getting in touch with clients and following up, as you’ll learn on the show.

Shailesh is full of enthusiasm and humor on air as well as on the stage–listen till the end to hear why he’s ready to write the “definitive book on women” after raising four daughters. He is currently working on expanding to new clientele and you’ll get to hear all about the additional hurdles and challenges that come with the scaling stage of running a speaking business.

You’ll also learn all about:

How being involved in theater helps prepare you for confidence as a speaker.
Tips and tricks for balancing speaking and parenting.
How to make traveling all the time more enjoyable.
Why you shouldn’t overcomplicate the prospecting process.
Why imposter syndrome is actually a good thing.
How to maintain energy from one speaking engagement to the next.
…and so much more!

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Episode Chapters:

[00:01:51] Dad's influence at home to get public speaking practice.
[00:04:02] Discovering speaking career leads to paid gigs.
[00:09:40] Time is all about priorities and goals.
[00:14:30] Be intentional, follow instructions, use email.
[00:19:43] Surprise: Learning about presentation time requirements
[00:22:12] Last-minute panic turns into successful presentation.
[00:25:25] Big experience with dedicated, learning audience. Stay prepared.
[00:29:11] How are you focused on expanding your speaking business?
[00:33:41] Game-changing; juggling multiple businesses with purpose.
[00:34:47] Believe in your message, forget self-doubt.
[00:40:00] Legacy: emotional attachment to leaving a mark.
[00:41:23] Grateful guest expresses appreciation for podcast appearance.

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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.
0:38.5	That's what you got to do is go to the speaka lab.com slash marketing and we'll see you there.
0:51.3	Hey, what's up, Rand's Graham Baldwin here? here, delighted to have you here listening to the
0:54.4	Speaka Lab podcast for an episode of our student highlight series. Now, as you may know, our mission
1:00.2	here at the Speakelab is to help you get booked and paid to speak by equipping you with the tools
1:04.2	to launch and scale your speaking business. And we are really, really proud of the thousands of
1:09.0	students who have used our programs and tools to build the speaking business of their dreams. But you don't have to hear it for me. You can hear it directly from the incredible people who have gone from aspiring to establish speakers thanks to their hard work and our programs. Now, if you're a speaker, I know that you have the story of what inspired your message and how you decided where you want to make that impact.
1:29.0	And often that story can be what gives other speakers who are just starting out the confidence to take the first steps towards chasing their dreams.
1:35.6	And so that's why we started this student highlight series where you're going to be able to hear incredible speaker stories straight from our talented and diverse alumni.
1:43.8	I'm going to hand off the mic for
1:45.0	today's conversation to one of our coaches who works with our students every single day,
1:48.7	giving them tailored guidance to further their speaking career. So here's this week's
1:52.5	student highlight episode. Enjoy.
1:58.8	Hey, everyone. Mary Alice Goldsmith here, director of student success for the speaker lab.
2:08.0	I am so excited to be taking over the speaker lab podcast today.
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