How to Perform Your Speech with Amy Port

The Speaker Lab Podcast

The Speaker Lab

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

4.8 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2016

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Is there a connection between acting and speaking in public? There most certainly is a link between, according to today's guest. Amy Port joins us to talk about that connection, and how to tap into it to become an even better speaker.

Amy is an amazing speaker, performer in her own right. Her background is in acting, theatre and performance. She earned a Master of Fine Arts from Yale's School of Drama and consistently worked as an actor after graduation.

But the transient life of an actor was not for her and she moved on. Fast forward 15 years and she's sharing her acting knowledge to help speakers become great performers and speakers on stage.

On today's show, Amy explains why we are all performing and taking on various roles in our lives even if we don't consider ourselves actors, plus how to use those roles effectively on stage. Tune in for all of that and more on this episode of The Speaker Lab!

THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:

The two parts to making a speaker great versus good.
How do you make the mental shift from speaking into performing your speech?
Why rehearsing properly is so important.
What does it mean to "sculpt" your performance?
When should you get in front of test audiences?
Staging: what it is and how to do it effectively.
How to find the balance between being rehearsed and over-rehearsed.
And so much more!

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0:00.0	Hey, friend, are you looking for ways to book more paid speaking gigs?
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0:27.2	This training is free.
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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. That's all one word, the speakerlap.com slash get booked
0:39.3	and register right now. We look forward to seeing you on the live training.
0:48.8	What is that, my friend? Graham Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. Hope you
0:52.6	doing well. Hope you're having a great day. I've got a great interview for you today. I'm excited to share with you. Got a friend of mine that's going to be coming on in just a minute. Before we get into it, let me remind you, we do have a free online training. We'd love for you to come hang out with us with. We're teaching all about how to find and book speaking engagement. So whether you are brand new to speaking, you're just
1:12.4	getting started. Maybe you've been doing this for a little while. You're doing some free things. You're trying to figure out how to get paid or how to get paid more. Wherever you are in your business, we'd love for you to come hang out with us. You can register by going to free speakerworkshop.com. Again, that is free speakerworkshop.com. Definitely want to check that out.
1:29.7	All right. Today we're talking with my friend Amy Port. Amy, you may recognize the last name,
1:34.4	is married to Michael Port. We actually had Michael way back when episode seven. We had a really
1:40.4	fun kind of joint interview almost where he interviewed me, I interviewed him.
1:44.8	We had it on each other's podcast.
1:46.6	So that was a lot of fun.
1:47.4	Again, that's all the way back in episode seven.
1:49.3	Definitely one of the more popular episodes.
1:51.1	Definitely check that one out.
1:52.4	So today I'm talking with Michael's wife, Amy, and Amy and Michael teach a training called
1:58.8	Heroic Public Speaking.
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