Overcoming Adversity with Chris Ruden

The Speaker Lab Podcast

The Speaker Lab

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🗓️ 27 October 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Overcoming adversity is an experience almost everyone has at some point in their lives. Our guest today was faced with this challenge early on and today he shares how doing so led to his speaking career.

Chris Ruden speaks to corporations and non-profits about overcoming adversity and diversity inclusion, especially regarding diabetes. Chris was born with a limb difference, he had most of his hand amputated when he was born. At 19 he was diagnosed with Type I diabetes, which is an autoimmune disease. That diagnosis was his wake up call to do something, which led him to his current speaking path.

On this edition of The Speaker Lab, we talk about what his speaking business looks like today (including how it shifted as a result of COVID), and he tells the story of how he landed his first $50,000 client.

Join us to hear it all on episode 313 of The Speaker Lab.

THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:

Why it's okay to change course when opportunities present themselves.
Why becoming a great speaker is not enough to have a successful speaking business.
When is opportunity the worst thing that could happen to you?
What's the difference between someone who talks to a crowd and a speaker?
How can you change your outreach to increase your fees?
How finding your core message will help you narrow your market.
Why your job as a speaker isn't over when you finish your speech.
What one question can you ask yourself to help define your message as a speaker?
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.
0:52.1	Hey, what's up, Frank Baldwin here? Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. So good to have you here with us today on episode 313. We've got a great show for you today. I mean, they're all great, right? Yeah, yeah, they're all great. We're going to just go with that. And today, actually, we're kicking off a brand new series, highlighting student success stories from students who work with the Speaker Lab. So can't wait to share these amazing speakers with you. I believe these are if you,
1:14.6	as you listen to these, that you're really going to learn a lot of things from their stories.
1:18.0	You're also going to be inspired to keep pressing on in your own speaking journey.
1:21.6	So our first speaker in this series is Chris Rudin, who speaks to corporations and
1:25.4	nonprofits on diversity and inclusion with a focus on the disability and diabetes space. It's one of the things I love most about Chris's story is that there was a time when speaking wasn't even on his radar. He thought it was like this unattainable dream job, but he didn't think it was a legitimate possibility as a as really a full-time profession. So you're going to hear what changed for him,
1:47.8	why he fell in love with speaking, how many free gigs he actually did before getting paid,
1:53.0	and just what his speaking career looks like today. This is a really fun episode. Let's get right into it. Here's my conversation with the speaker lab student, Chris Rudin. Enjoy it.
2:00.5	Hey, what's that, friends? Today we're going to be talking with Chris Rudin, who is a successful speaker and just all around good guys. So Chris, thanks for hanging out with us today. We appreciate you being here. Thanks for having me on, man. I really appreciate it. You bet. You bet. So first of all, one of the things that we want to highlight is we want to talk through your story but just let's let's go to the to the end first and then we'll kind of work our way backwards so give us some context of who you speak to
2:22.4	what's the problem that you solve and then we'll kind of work our way to how you get to this point
2:26.4	I speak to primarily corporations and nonprofits believe it or not I speak on overcoming adversity
2:32.9	diversity diversity and inclusion,
2:41.4	especially in the disability and diabetes space. Okay. Why those topics? I have a disability. I was born with a limb difference, and I had most of my hand amputated when I was born.
2:47.5	And at 19, I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes diabetes which is an autoimmune disease well that was
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