Hey, Fran, Graham Baldwin here.

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?

Well, that tool exists.

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.

Even better, we're going to teach you exactly how

to create that tool for your speaking business in under an hour. For a limited time, we're going to

be offering a free live training on how to build and use this marketing asset to start booking

paid gigs in just a few weeks. If you want to hear more, go to thespeakalab.com slash marketing.

That's what you got to do is go to the speaklab.com slash marketing and we'll see you there. Hey, what's up, my friend? Graham Baldwin

here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. Hope you're doing well. Hope life is treating you good.

We are on episode 17 of the podcast and we got a great show for you today. Got a great episode. I think they're all well. Hope life is treating you good. We are on episode 17 of the podcast,

and we've got a great show for you today. Got a great episode. I think they're all great, but I'm excited about this one. This is a strategy and a tactic and a tip. It's not even like a... It shouldn't be a strategy or a tactic. It should just be a given for all speakers. So here's what I want you to do. before we even get into what we're going to be talking about,

I just need you to commit that,

listen,

if you're going to be a speaker, you've got to do this, all right? What I'm getting ready to talk about, what we're going to ready to cover in this episode. I'm coming out guns ablazing here, all right? You've got to do this if you're serious about being a speaker. And the thing is, is that you have to

practice. You have to rehearse. You have to go over your material. You have to become more

comfortable and confident. You have to know your stuff. You have to take your speaking seriously.

And so that's what we're going to be getting into today. I'm going to go through why you got to rehearse. We're going to talk about the rehearsal process, different things that I personally do, things that I, how I kind of approach preparing a talk. And so we're going to be getting into that. Also going to be talking about like should you use notes, you know, should you video record yourself? Should you practice in front of the mirror from in front of other people? So we're going to be talking all about that today in today's episode. Hey, also, just a quick reminder, we have got a free webinar where we're going to be talking all about the art of speaking. Maybe you've heard me talk about the business, the marketing side of speaking. How do you actually find bookings? How do you contact clients? But today we're going to, on the workshop and webinar we're doing, we're going to be talking all about the art of speaking. How do you actually present a good talk? How do you put together a good talk? How do you deal with some of those nerves? We're going to go in more depth on how you practice, rehearse. We're going to talk about storytelling, using humor. We're going to talk about all those different nuances and pieces that go into making someone a good speaker. How do you actually do that? And so you're definitely going to want to register for that. You can go to art of speakingwebinar.com. Again, that is art of speakingwebinar.com. We'll throw that link in the show notes as well. Don't miss it. It's going to be a lot of fun. again art of speaking webinar.com. We'll throw that link in the show notes as well. Don't miss it.

It's going to be a lot of fun. Again, art of speaking webinar.com. All right, let's get into today's

episode. We're going to be talking all you all about how to practice and rehearse your talk.

Now, sometimes we think that like any time you've seen like a great speaker, a great performer,

sometimes we just have this

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