How to Overcome Burnout and Insecurity with Kyla Cofer [Student Highlight]

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

4.8 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

A lot of coaches become speakers, and a lot of speakers become coaches. It’s not a simple 2+2=4 formula, but there’s a few reasons why these professions complement each other so well! One of our recent program alumni, Kyle Cofer, came onto episode 455 of The Speaker Lab podcast to discuss her path from life coaching to speaking. In this student highlight, Kyla shares how our program helped her amplify her message about overcoming burnout.

Going from aspiring to professional speaker requires tailored guidance and mentorship. As Kyla testifies, even an expert at coaching other people can have trouble overcoming a few nagging insecurities. Kyla and our director of student success Maryalice Goldsmith discuss the trickle down effect she experienced from her experienced TSL mentors and the breakthroughs she achieved using our five-module SPEAK framework.

Kyla is more than an entrepreneur and speaker–she’s also a devoted homeschooling mom. Juggling motherhood and the fast-paced speaker life is no joke and requires a few iron-clad priorities balanced by flexible routines. When it comes to childcare and splitting parental responsibilities, Kyla offers some “real talk” and encouragement for any speaker trying to give their best self to their kids and their business.

The truth is, nobody can be perfect to everybody all the time, and despite your best ambitions you will fall short at speaking, parenting, and everything in between! But like any good life coach, Kyla has words of wisdom for handling failure: it all comes down to gratitude and acknowledgement of what makes us human. If this episode doesn’t have you dying to hire Kyla as your life coach, it will definitely have you feeling better equipped to handle your flaws!

You’ll also learn all about:

Why striving for perfection gets in the way of creativity.
How to readjust your goals without compromising.
How to move on without baggage from even the most epic flops.
The value of letting go when it comes to negative feedback.
Tips for composing and practicing your talk.
The relationship between self-care and successful speaking.
…and so much more!

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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.
0:45.4	Hey, what's up, Randalladne here? Delighted to have you here listening to the
0:52.4	speaker lab podcast for an episode of our student highlight series. Now, as you may know, our mission here at the Speaker Lab is to help you get booked and paid to speak by equipping you with the tools to launch and scale your speaking business. And we are really, really proud of the thousands of students who have used our programs and tools to build the speaking business of their dreams.
1:11.7	But you don't have to hear it for me. You can hear it directly from the incredible people who have
1:15.7	gone from aspiring to establish speakers thanks to their hard work and our programs.
1:20.6	Now, if you're a speaker, I know that you have the story of what inspired your message and how you
1:24.7	decided where you want to make that impact. And often that story
1:27.9	can be what gives other speakers who are just starting out the confidence to take the first
1:31.5	steps towards chasing their dreams. And so that's why we started this student highlight series,
1:36.4	where you're going to be able to hear incredible speaker stories straight from our talented
1:40.3	and diverse alumni. I'm going to hand off the mic for today's conversation to one of our coaches who works
1:45.0	with our students every single day, giving them tailored guidance to further their speaking
1:49.0	career.
1:49.4	So here's this week's student highlight episode.
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