Living a Life of Significance with Pete Smith

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4.8 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

At a certain point, most of us think about how to ensure we are living a life of significance. One person who has definitely done this is our guest today, Pete Smith. Pete has devoted his career to this very topic and he's here to share with us how he's successfully done so as a keynote speaker.

Today he has between 40 and 50 engagements a year, most of which are opening or closing keynotes on the topic of bringing significance into our lives. But how he choose that topic and how he's grown his speaking career from free local association gigs to international keynotes is a fascinating story.

On this edition of the show, he'll tell us how he got his start, the funny story of what happened the first time he was asked what he charges to speak and how he picked his domain name since his name is so common. Tune in to hear that and more on episode 213 of The Speaker Lab.

THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:

What are the 3 biggest takeaways he wants his attendees to get from his talks?
How did having a stroke impact his speaking career?
Why is he the poster child for how NOT to go out on your own?
How local associations helped him get his start.
How many free events vs paid events did he do in his first year?
What type of person is cut out for this business?
What is working for him right now to find and book gigs?
If you have a message to deliver what is the question to ask yourself?
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.
0:50.6	Hey, what's up my friend? Graham Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. We're in
0:53.9	episode 21, three, two, 13.. Graham Baldwin here. Welcome back to the Speak Alab podcast. We're in episode 21, 3, 213.
0:56.3	And today we got another booked and paid to speak student who is joining us.
1:00.3	Now, Booked and Paid to Speak is our primary training program where we walk through a step-by-step system of exactly how to find and book paid speaking engagements.
1:08.8	Our guest today is someone who went through the program a couple
1:11.8	years ago and has had some serious success in his business has done extremely well. So we're going to
1:16.2	get to all of that in just a second. Now, if you want to learn more about how to find
1:19.6	a book speaking engagements, you definitely want to check out our free training, our free webinar
1:23.9	that we offer at free speakerworkshop.com. Again, that is free speakerworkshop.com.
1:30.8	And there we dig into our overall system and process for finding and booking free,
1:35.4	or finding and booking speaking gigs, paid speaking gigs. And the training itself, though,
1:39.6	is totally free. So make sure you check that out again over at free speakerworkshop.com,
1:43.5	free speakerworkshop.com. Free speakerworkshop.
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