How to Tell a Great Story and Help Audiences with Chris Field
The Speaker Lab Podcast
The Speaker Lab
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
How to tell a great story and help audiences are two of the strongest skills a speaker can have in their repetoire, and someone who knows full well how to do both is Chris Field.
If you're a long-time listener of the show you'll remember Chris from a previous episode (123, which you can find here). But if you are new and/or haven't heard Chris before, he is a successful keynote speaker who founded a non-profit organization over a decade ago. With his background in that area, today he mainly speaks to associations and other non-profit groups.
Creating and running his own non-profit gave him a sense of purpose and led him to the topic he mainly speaks about now: empowering audiences to disrupt for good, something he has been doing most of his life. In fact, being a disruptor has been such a notable part of his path that he wrote a book called Disrupt For Good.
On today's episode of The Speaker Lab, Chris tells us why disruption can actually be a good thing, how the pandemic has shifted his business and how he made the adjustment, and why it's cool to be in several industries.
Join us to hear that and more on the 321st edition of The Speaker Lab!
THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:
- What to do if you have the potential, but need a plan.
- The three things you need if you want to be a successful speaker.
- How can you transition from telling a great story to helping audiences and solving problems?
- What's the difference between giving a good speech and disrupting and transforming audiences?
- How he leverages his credibility into additional speaking gigs.
- What advice does he have if you're feeling discouraged?
- Why is it important to continue to get your reps in?
- What is the best marketing for a great speaker early in their career?
- And so much more!
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Transcript
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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. Hey, what's up, friends? |
| 0:56.4 | Graham Baldwin here. |
| 0:57.1 | Welcome back to the Speaker Lab podcast. |
| 0:58.8 | So good to have you here with us today on episode 321. |
| 1:02.0 | Today we're finishing up our series on student success stories here within the |
| 1:05.7 | speaker lab. |
| 1:06.2 | And today we're going to be talking with an amazing guy who I'm actually delighted to have |
| 1:09.3 | back on the podcast for a second appearance. We're going to be talking with Mr. Chris Field today. Chris is a really neat guy. He's doing some amazing things out in the world. He runs a really impactful nonprofit. He's broken Guinness World Records. He actually ran for mayor at the age of 18, which is still kind of mind-blowing to me. So just a really fascinating guy. But the reason I wanted to have |
| 1:27.8 | Chris on was to talk specifically about his transition over the last few years from speaking for |
| 1:33.2 | free, or basically free, to booking gigs these days for significant speaking fees. In fact, |
| 1:38.4 | you're going to hear him share one story about a gig he agreed to do for a small fee a couple of years |
| 1:42.0 | back that he now knows he could have charged at least 20 times more for based on the client and the event in that particular circumstance. |
| 1:49.3 | So what gave him the confidence to start charging what he was worth? |
| 1:53.0 | And why does he feel like the plan that we worked with him on here at the speak lab was the |
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