Hey, Fran, Graham Baldwin here.

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Hey, what's our friends? Grant Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. Hope you're

having a great day.

We really do appreciate you hanging out with us and joining us, whether this is your first time listening to the show or you've listened to all 200, I don't know, a bunch of these episodes.

I really do appreciate it. We're glad that you're here. If you haven't already, we'd love for you to leave us a rating and review in iTunes, wherever you listen to the show. Make sure you subscribe. Tell a friend about it and spread the speaker love. Speaker love, speaker lab, message, love. You know, okay. Let's get to today's conversation today. We're talking with a friend Scott Stratton. Scott is a phenomenal professional speaker. He's been in the game for a long time, has a lot of knowledge. This is really a wide-ranging conversation. Scott is one of those guys that kind of marches, I butcher this in the conversation, but he marches to the beat of his own drum. And so we talk about how you do that, how you get to that point and what that looks like. We also talk about some of the insecurities, the doubts, the imposter syndrome that he and many speakers feel. I think oftentimes we look up to speakers. We admire, we respect and think, ah, they get it all figured out. And so we talk that through. Scott, we talk about what he's done over the years, what he plans to do over the coming years to stay relevant and I continue to do this for a long time. So really fun conversation.

Always enjoy having Scott on the show. So let's just jump right in. Here's Scott Stratton. Enjoy.

Hey, it was our friends. Graham Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. Today joined by my buddy Scott Stratton. Scott, I have a question.

Do you think of yourself as an anomaly of a speaker?

Meaning that you seem like a very unconventional speaker.

You march to the beat of your own drum.

You don't typically follow the usual advice given to speakers.

And it's kind of, hey, I'm going to do it my way or the highway and that's it. Do you find that that is an anomaly or you feel like more and more

speakers are doing it that way? It depends. I always found it depends on the path of which one took.

And by the way, thank you for having me. I'm always happy to be in the lab. It's awesome,

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