How to Pivot to a Speaking Career with Jenny Blake
The Speaker Lab Podcast
The Speaker Lab
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2016
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Whether you're a business owner, self-employed or work for a company, you know today's marketplace isn't like the past. It's no longer about getting a good job and staying with a company for 40 or 50 years until you retire.
Today it's about pivoting, and here to share just how to pivot in your career is Jenny Blake.
Jenny is the best-selling author beyond Life After College and her upcoming book, Pivot. She's also an entrepreneur and well-known speaker who formerly worked at Google honing her skills as a coach and speaker.
On this episode of The Speaker Lab, Jenny explains why she left Google to move to New York City and start her own business. She also details how speaking fits into her overall business and career goals, as well as the four stages to pivoting from what you're doing now to what you want to do in the future. Listen in for all of that and so much more on today's show!
THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:
- Why did she wear turtlenecks when speaking for 5 years?
- What one keynote topic brought in 50% of her income for 3 years?
- Did she speak to an empty room for her first demo video?
- How she doubled her speaking rate when she was starting out.
- What to double down on when making a transition.
- What is drafting and how can you see it for success?
- Should you get a mentor?
- The 4 stages to pivoting successfully.
- And so much more!
EPISODE RESOURCES
- Jenny Blake's web site
- Pivot podcast
- Pivot, by Jenny Blake
- Pivot method coaching
- Life After College, by Jenny Blake
- Jenny Blake on Twitter
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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 speakelab.com slash marketing and we'll see you there. |
| 0:47.7 | What is that, my friend, Graham Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. We are on |
| 0:51.4 | episode 95. We are closing in on the 100 mark. Yeah, the century mark is |
| 0:58.5 | where we are rapidly approaching. Today we got a great guest for you before we get into that |
| 1:03.4 | conversation. Let me quickly remind you, if you haven't already, we are just a couple of days away. |
| 1:09.4 | At the time of this recording, the time you're listening to this, we are just a couple of days away from the speaker lab summit's going to be happening, |
| 1:15.4 | where we have gathered over 40 of the best speakers on the planet to share some of their best strategies, tactics about how they have built and grown their speaking business. |
| 1:25.3 | So we have talked with people like Ken Davis and Michael and Amy |
| 1:29.6 | Port and Jeff Goin, John Lee Dumas, Pat Flynn, Dan Miller, Chris Ducker, Chris Brogan, Andy Andrews, |
| 1:38.0 | literally just some top-notch speakers. So what you're going to want to do is you're going to |
| 1:42.9 | want to pick up your free ticket. You can literally listen to all 40 plus of these interviews for free by going over to the speakerlabsummit.com. Again, that is the speakerlabsummit.com and register for your free pass. I'll tell you, you're going to want to do that pretty quick, assuming you're listening to this pretty quick, pretty close to winning this release because we will be running the summit from September 11th through the 23rd, September 11th through the 23rd, and the videos will be streaming for free each day, just for a couple of days. So you've got a limited window there where you can watch those. So make sure that you, again, pick up your free ticket by going over to the speakerlabsummit.com. Now, again, because this is a virtual summit, you don't have to travel, you don't have to go anywhere. You can stay home and watch the interviews that you want, the interviews that you're most interested based on the topics or who the guest is. And again, you can do that from the comfort over your home and do that for free. So make sure that you pick up your summit pass. All right. So today we're going to be talking with my friend Jenny Blake. Jenny is a speaker who does a lot of speaking. But then Jenny is also someone who has a new book coming out about pivoting in your career. And so we have a great conversation of how she's made some pivots and then how you can actually make pivots from, let's say right now, let's say you're working a nine to five job, but you have this dream, this desire to be a speaker. And you're trying to figure out, how do I go from this day job to this dream job of being a speaker? How do you make that pivot? And so we through that whole conversation with jenny how you can |
| 3:07.8 | very practically and tangibly make a transition like that and thinking some of those things through |
| 3:13.7 | so we get into that in depth so let's not wait any longer my friends let's get right into it here's |
| 3:18.4 | my conversation with author speaker and uh awesome gal jenny blake enjoy |
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