Hey, Fran, Graham Baldwin here.

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Hey, hey, what's up? My friend, Grant Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. I am so

glad you are here today. I hope you're

having a great day. Wherever you're at in the world, however you may do, maybe you're on a plane right now, head to a gig, maybe you're in the car, maybe you're on the treadmill, maybe you're at the gym, maybe you're cooking dinner. Maybe you're just, the kids are screaming right now and you're like, kids just shut up. I'm trying to listen to the podcast. Wherever you are, whatever's

happened. And really do appreciate you hanging out to the podcast. Wherever you are, whatever's

happened. And really do appreciate you hanging out with us and I glad you are here today.

Hey, before we get into today's episode, one of the questions that we get oftentimes from people

is, hey, as a speaker, how much should I charge? That's a great question. And to be honest with it,

there's a lot of variables that go into it. So one of the things that we did is we put together a free calculator that you can just answer some questions and it'll spit out a number at you as a ballpark of what you should be charging as a speaker. So if you want to check that out, it's totally free. It's a lot of fun just to tinker around with, play with, throw different variables at it and see what number it spits out at you. But you can check that out over at my speakerfee.com. My speaker fee.com. Just go check that out. And again, totally free and I encourage you to mess around with that. See what you should be charging as a speaker. Maybe you're charging too little. You need to up your fees. Maybe you're just charging way too much and that's why you can't get booked. So definitely stop by, check out my speaker fee.com. All right, so today we're talking with my buddy Mike Adomish and Mike is a guy who's been in the speaking industry for many, many years, has a lot of experience, a lot to share, and has actually had some start and stop points throughout his speaking careers. We talk about how he got started, why he took a little bit of a break, how he got back into it. We also talk about this. Mike has done a lot of speaking in the military industry. That's something we haven't covered a ton in the podcast. There's a lot of people that are interested in speaking to the military. There's a lot of opportunity that exists in the military, but sometimes it can feel a little bit difficult to understand

how do you get into that space? How do you get into that market? So Mike has a lot of experience

with that. We talked through how he got into military, how you could get into speaking at military

events. We talk about who hires, what topics they hire for. We also talk about this. Mike has

been speaking pretty much on the same topic-ish for most of his career. So we talk about how he's

had longevity on the same topic and how he's made sure to keep that relevant and engaging for

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