How to Write a Book That Actually Grows Your Business with Taurea Vision Avant

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Authors, Public Speakers, Public Speaking, How To, Marketing, Smallbusiness, Coaching, Education, Entrepreneurship, Speaking, Business, Side Gig

4.8 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Every week, our Speaker Lab podcast guests surprise us with all the exciting twists and turns of their journey to the stage. This week’s guest, Taurea Vision Avant, is no exception — listen in to episode 445 to hear her adventures from computer science, to network marketing, to authorship, coaching and beyond. In fact, Taurea never even saw herself as a professional speaker or entrepreneur at the beginning of her career! In this episode, she admits speaking was “never her thing” until she realized how powerful and impactful she felt speaking for even just a small room full of people. Now, she’s a successful entrepreneur and author of over 15 books. Her story is an incredible testament to how no matter what educational background you come from, you can challenge expectations and make an impact as a speaker.

As a network marketer, Taurea often found herself speaking to smaller groups. As she invested in her skills, she became a speaker on behalf of the entire company! Despite her experience and success selling from the stage, she held off on speaking “for herself” for years. On the show, she shares how she finally got into the mindset that took her from wishing she was a speaker to actually starting her own speaking and coaching business, which she did from the ground up. That’s right–every event she spoke at during the first year she organized herself from start to finish. Her grit and determination earned her six figures that first year and she hasn’t stopped hustling since. Now, through her coaching and speaking business, she helps others amplify their personal brand and hit their goals as authors and entrepreneurs.

Taurea doesn’t put on any airs about her success–she is humble, humorous, and honest about the things she wishes she didn’t do. If you’ve been hesitant about launching your speaking business or publishing your first book, you’ll be hanging onto every word of this episode!

You’ll also learn all about:

Tips for inviting guests when you organize your own event.
How to shift from running your own events to being a guest speaker.
When it’s a good idea to speak for free or even pay to speak.
Why planning is essential to publishing a book that actually profits.
How to write a book that sells itself.
Why helping people get from A to B is more helpful than A to Z.
…and so much more!

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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.
0:50.8	Hey, what's up, Franz Graham Baldwin here? So glad to have you here with us today for episode
0:54.1	445 of the Speakag Lab podcast.
0:56.8	Today I'm joined by Terea Vision Avant for a really fun conversation about going from speaking for other people to speaking for yourself and writing books to experiences that her and I both have in common.
1:08.4	Now, Torea started speaking as a leader in a network marketing company
1:12.4	where she was delivering everything from small meetings among friends to motivational speeches in
1:17.2	front of thousands of people. And eventually, for reasons that she's going to elaborate on today,
1:21.3	she broke out of the network marketing, forged her own path as a speaker. Something that's
1:26.3	pretty amazing about Tariah's speaking career is that when
1:28.6	she started out on her own, she only spoke at workshops that she had organized herself for the first
1:33.2	few years. That means she herself booked the space, planned the event, marketed, sent the invitations,
1:38.3	and she was making six figures doing it that way. Now, eventually she decided that it was in her
1:43.5	best interest to get on the
1:44.6	stage of other people's events like most speakers do, but organizing her own workshops and webinars
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