Navigating Life Changes as a Speaker with Melanie Deziel

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The Speaker Lab

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

4.8 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Change is inevitable, but what is it like navigating life changes as a speaker? Our guest for today's episode of The Speaker Lab shares her journey. She's someone you know and love - Ms. Melanie Deziel.

Since her last visit to the show, she's had some major life changes: like becoming pregnant! Having a child is a major life event and she'll tell us how she's changing her speaking business as a result.

Listen in to hear how to navigate a significant change like having a child or any other major life milestone on episode 251 of The Speaker Lab.

THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW

What was the most important question she asked herself?
Are there speaking options that don't require travel?
What was one of her fears about sharing her pregnancy?
How has she navigated planning and booking gigs around her due date?
What elements has she ramped up to offset the lack of speaking gigs?
Why did she create a remote mastermind group?
Should you charge a higher fee to compensate for having fewer gigs?
How to share expectations with your significant other and family about travel and speaking gigs.
And much, much more!

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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?
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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.
0:48.9	Hey, hey, what's up, my friend? Grant Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. We are
0:52.4	glad that you're here, glad that you're joining us, whether this is your first time hanging out with us or you've been with us for every single
0:58.5	episode. We are now on episode 251. Either way, really glad that you're here. Hey, if you are interested in
1:04.1	working with us and us helping you to build and grow your speaking business, we would love to have a
1:09.4	conversation with you. We have our booked and
1:11.2	paid to speak elite program, which is an intensive individual and group program, helping you build
1:16.7	a system for finding a booking paid speaking gig. So if you're interested in learning more about that,
1:21.5	if you'd like to talk with our team, then definitely stop by and check out thespeakerlab.com
1:25.8	slash apply. Again, that is the speakerlab.com slash apply.
1:30.2	All right. So today we are having a family favorite, a member of the family, a show favorite.
1:36.8	That's probably the better way to put it. We're having Ms. Melanie Diesel back on the show.
1:40.6	She has been with us numerous times, co-hosts, numerous episodes. She's been a huge, huge part of the speaker lab and our family. And so excited to bring her back. She has been with us numerous times. We've co-hosted numerous episodes. She's been a huge, huge part of the Speakelab and our family. I'm so excited to bring her back. She's had some big
1:48.9	changes happening in life. So we're going to be talking that through. Specifically, she is
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