Managing The Highs and Lows of Speaking with Mitch Joel

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The Speaker Lab

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4.8 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Ever wonder how successful speakers are managing the highs and lows of speaking? Mitch Joel can tell us and he's here to do just that for today's The Speaker Lab.

Mitch is a returning guest (previously on episode 144) who came back to cover everything from the value of building relationships with other speakers to managing the highs and lows of this career path to the importance of making friends with other speakers.

You're going to learn all of that and more when you join us for episode 278 of The Speaker Lab!

THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:

How do you stay ahead of your competitors?
Why saying yes is key to being a great speaker.
Why what you do this year does not provide any guarantees next year.
When being good enough is okay.
How are speakers like coffee?
What is one question he asks himself with every speaking engagement?
Why the audience's show and the speaker's show are two different experiences.
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.
0:49.8	Hey, what's up, my friend? Grant Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. Really do
0:53.5	appreciate you being here. If you haven't already, I'm sure you've heard by now. But our new book, The Successful Speaker, is out.
1:06.6	I'm sure we could insert some type of music there, but it's more fun if it comes from me, right?
1:09.1	If you haven't checked out the book, we would love for you to check it out.
1:12.0	It's five steps for booking gigs, getting paid, building your platform.
1:12.0	Again, the book is called The Successful you to check it out. It's five steps for booking gigs, getting paid, building your platform.
1:27.6	Again, the book is called The Successful Speaker. Everything you need to know about finding a booking speaking gigs is in that book. So I think you're really going to dig that. So go check it out. You can find it at Amazon or Barnes & Noble or wherever books are sold. You should be able to find that book there. All right. Hey, we've got a great conversation for you. We've got a great episode.
1:46.2	We have my friend Mitch Joel. Mitch has actually been on the show back in episode 144. Mitch has actually one of the craziest stories of how he got started, his very first gig. So if you haven't listened to that one, make sure you go back and listen to that one at some point. Again, that's episode 144. So today we have a really wide-ranging conversation. Mitch has been a professional speaker for about 16, 17 years.
1:44.2	We talk about the things that he's learned, what
1:47.9	keeps him relevant and excited about it, the importance and value of building relationships with other
1:52.7	speakers, how he kind of manages the mental side of being a speaker, the highs and lows, the emotional
1:57.9	roller coaster of it all. And then finally, we talk about a story that he shared recently in a private group
2:04.4	with some other speakers about being at a concert and two different sides of perspectives
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