Knowing Your Identity with Rocky Garza
The Speaker Lab Podcast
The Speaker Lab
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
One key to creating a thriving speaking business is knowing your identity and knowing what you bring to the table as a speaker.
Our guest is an expert at helping others know themselves and what they have to offer. Rocky Garza is a speaker and coach whose focus is on how our identities play into the roles and positions we fill. On The Speaker Lab today, we dive into what his life was like before he became a speaker and coach, how he made the leap and how he's adjusted to speaking during a pandemic.
Join us to hear that and more on episode 314 of The Speaker Lab.
THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:
- Why are so many of us "illiterate" about ourselves?
- Can fearlessness and vulnerability co-exist?
- What is the link between intensity and intimacy?
- How to learn not to apologize for being who you are.
- What is the most powerful thing we have as speakers?
- How did he land on the corporate space as his audience, even though he's never worked in that world?
- If you want to be a speaker then what should you do?
- What single pivot led to him booking at least 10 events since the pandemic started?
- And so much more!
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- Rocky Garza on LinkedIn
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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. |
| 0:51.1 | Hey, what's up, French? Grant Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaker Lab podcast. So good to have you here with us today on episode 314. |
| 0:57.0 | We've got another great show for you today as we are continuing our new series highlighting |
| 1:01.7 | student success stories from the Speaker Lab. |
| 1:04.0 | Now our second speaker in this series is Rocky Garza, who does most of his work in the corporate |
| 1:09.7 | space, helping people build the |
| 1:11.4 | confidence and conviction that they need to build a life that they believe in. Now, like a lot of |
| 1:15.5 | folks who come through the speaker lab, Rocky did some interesting things in his past life |
| 1:19.2 | prior to getting into speaking. He was a youth pastor and a wedding photographer, and you're going |
| 1:23.9 | to hear all about how and why he transitioned from those career paths, as well as how he eventually found speaking and coaching. |
| 1:30.8 | I loved hearing about how he pivoted during the pandemic to keep his business moving forward. |
| 1:35.1 | And I love the advice that he gives toward the end of the episode for folks interested in pursuing a career as a speaker. |
| 1:40.7 | So make sure you listen to that. |
| 1:42.5 | I've loved all of these conversations. |
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