Real Artists Don't Starve with Jeff Goins

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The Speaker Lab

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

4.8 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2017

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Do you think creative types must be starving artists with no hope of real income? Our guest for today's episode of The Speaker Lab is going to change that mindset if you do!

Jeff Goins is a published author with five books under his belt, as well as a highly-respected international speaker. And at his core Jeff is an artist.

On this show he tells us why it's okay to profit as an artist, and how to overcome the mental barriers of getting paid well for our craft.

You'll hear Jeff share his back story and also explain why you don't need to wait until you think you're ready, and why you should stop calling yourself an "aspiring" anything! Jeff gives plenty of sage wisdom on those topics, and much more during the 134th episode of The Speaker Lab.

THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:

When can a speaker call themselves a speaker?
How John Grisham became a writer, and what his story can teach you.
Why doesn't Jeff like the word "aspiring"?
How to be okay charging money for what you do.
Why is being a starving artist a choice?
What is one of the rules of not being a starving artist?
Why to start speaking for a fee as soon as possible.
What to say if your prospect has no budget for speakers.
And so much more!

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0:00.0	Hey, Fran, Graham Baldwin here.
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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 speakakerlab.com slash marketing. That's all you got to do is go to the speakerlab.com slash marketing and we'll see you there.
0:47.9	Hey, what's on? My friend, Graham Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast.
0:51.5	Today we are having a great conversation about speakers and getting paid.
0:56.3	You know, I think this is a big challenge that a lot of speakers, not just speakers, but just
0:59.7	artists in general run into, is that we think that for some reason that getting paid for what
1:05.0	it is that we do is a bad thing. It's a negative thing. And so today we're bringing on a guest
1:09.6	and a really good friend of mine to discuss this and to debunk this myth that you shouldn't be paid for your work.
1:16.5	Listen, you absolutely should be paid for the art and the value that you bring into the world.
1:21.5	So today we're going to have that conversation with my good friend, Jeff Goins.
1:25.9	Jeff has actually, he's got a new book coming out called Real Artist Don't Starve.
1:29.7	What a great title.
1:46.0	I really like that. Real Artist Don't Starve. We talk about that title. We talk about exactly what he means inside the book. But we dig into like, you know, the topic of is making money a bad thing. You know, speakers, we want to help people. so profiting off of helping people can feel weird or I don't know maybe even slimy at times.
1:46.9	So we talk about that.
2:05.2	We talk about how do you overcome mental barriers of getting paid and not feeling guilty for it? We talk about, you know, speaking for free a bad thing. We dig into that as well. And then also, Jeff has got several free bonuses he's going to hook you up with. So make sure you stick around until the end for that. So let's get right into it. Here's my conversation with my buddy, Jeff Goins. Enjoy.
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