How to Transition Into Speaking Full-time with Erick Rheam
The Speaker Lab Podcast
The Speaker Lab
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Wondering how to transition into speaking full-time? The Speaker Lab guest today, Erick Rheam, has made the leap, and he'll talk about what it's like to turn pro and make your speaking career a reality.
Erick is one of our original Booked and Paid to Speak students, and today he's a highly successful speaker. But he only recently left his corporate job to pursue his speaking career on a full-time basis.
You'll hear what gave him the confidence to finally leave and so much more on episode 239 of The Speaker Lab.
THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:
- When did he know he had to choose between speaking and his job?
- What were the two reasons speaking was a good fit for him?
- What you should do if your boss isn't supportive of your speaking side hustle.
- What are the two keys to being successful at something?
- Should your target market and topic evolve throughout your speaking career?
- What was the tipping point that showed him it was time to leave his job?
- Why you need mentors in your life.
- What are the biggest regrets most people have in their lives?
- And so much more!
EPISODE RESOURCES
- Erick Rheam's web site
- Erick Rheam on Episode 225 of TSL
- Erick Rheam on Episode 150 of TSL
- Erick Rheam on Episode 126 of TSL
- Erick Rheam on Twitter
- Erick Rheam on LinkedIn
- Michael Hyatt's web site
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, friend, are you looking for ways to book more paid speaking gigs? |
| 0:03.7 | Well, of course you are. |
| 0:04.4 | Maybe you're just starting out as a speaker. You're trying to figure out what to prioritize in order to get booked and paid as quickly as possible. Listen, if that's you, I want you to join us for a free live training where you're going to learn how to create the number one marketing asset that you need to consistently book more paid gigs. This is a tool that one speaker on our team used to book over $36,000 in paid gigs before he even had a website. |
| 0:27.2 | This training is free. |
| 0:28.1 | It's live and we offered a few times a week so you can find a time that works best for you. |
| 0:32.5 | All you got to do is head over to thespeakerlab.com slash get booked. |
| 0:36.3 | That's all one word. |
| 0:37.2 | Thespeakelab.com slash get booked. That's all one word, the speakerlap.com slash get booked |
| 0:39.3 | and register right now. We look forward to seeing you on the live training. |
| 0:49.9 | Hey, what's on my friend? Grand Balden here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. We are here on |
| 0:53.3 | episode 239. And I really do appreciate you joining us, whether this is your first time tuning in or you've been listening to all 238 previous episodes. Really do appreciate you being here. We got a great show for you today. We have one of our repeat guests, frequent guests, Eric Ream is back joining us. The past two weeks, he has interviewed me. |
| 1:12.6 | He turned the tables on me and we talked about the Genesis and the history of the Speaker |
| 1:17.4 | Lab and how we got to this point. |
| 1:18.6 | So if you haven't listened to that, definitely go back, check that out. |
| 1:20.6 | Episode 237 and 238, on Part 1 and Part 2 there. |
| 1:25.6 | But the reason I want to have Eric back on is Eric has just |
| 1:29.6 | recently made a significant shift in his own business. So some of you may have listened to some |
| 1:34.8 | interviews we've done with Eric or you're familiar with him and him as a speaker and what he's done |
| 1:39.0 | with the speaker lab. He's actually a coach with us now as well. But Eric has had a very successful |
| 1:43.6 | speaking career and he's built the whole thing while |
| 1:45.2 | having a full-time job. |
| 1:47.3 | And so just recently, he transitioned where he left his full-time job and is now all in |
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