How to Navigate The Craziest Moments As A Speaker with Shane Sams

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The Speaker Lab

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4.8 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

“The show must go on baby. You gotta keep going man. Never know what’s gonna happen when you’re doing it live with no net, you never know.”

Being a professional speaker means navigating some of the craziest and most unpredictable moments imaginable. This week, Shane Sams joins Grant on the show to recount some of his funniest and most challenging moments on the speaking trail.

You never know what you're going to encounter when you're walking into a speaking gig, but the best speakers know how to roll with the punches and "be a pro" even when things go completely off the rails. Shane and Grant have some great advice on how to handle the unexpected and chaotic moments, all learned from their own experiences over the years.

Shane also opens up about his struggles with his health and how he learned to deal with burnout. Balancing your health with the exhausting lifestyle of living on the road can be a challenge for any speaker, but finding your own boundaries and thresholds is incredibly important.

This lighthearted and engaging conversation is something you don't want to miss. From flying squirrels to napping audience members, you'll hear some incredible war stories from Shane and Grant this week that will make you laugh and teach you how to navigate your own challenging moments in the future.

You’ll learn:

How to navigate the hard moments on stage
Why composure & humor are your best tools
What honest communication can do for your relationships
The importance of prioritizing your mental & physical health
Why you should learn from the pros
And much, much more!

“You gotta say the words whether anyone is paying attention or not.”

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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.
0:37.8	That's what you got to do is go to the speakelab.com slash marketing and we'll see you there.
1:02.7	Number one, the people in that audience have no idea what you're going to say or what's coming.
1:05.4	So anything you say is right.
1:06.7	Anything you do is right.
1:10.3	Like we think there's like a correct way to handle everything, but they don't know.
1:11.8	Like they don't know my talk.
1:16.1	And then backstage, when you're at a big production, like some of these big productions that I've worked on, there is stuff going wrong every 15 minutes.
1:21.1	But the only goal is to keep that illusion for the crowd.
1:24.3	As long as they don't know anything's wrong or you convince them that
1:27.7	what's happening is right, then they will, they will totally like go along with you and everything
1:32.6	is okay.
1:42.4	Hey, there's our friends. Graham Baldwin here. Welcome back to the Speak of Lab podcast.
1:45.4	Hey, excited for today's conversation.
1:47.9	This is a very, very close friend of mine that we've had on multiple times.
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