Secrets to going viral as a speaker and landing a TEDx Talk with Ashley Stahl
Powerhouse Women
Lindsey Schwartz
4.9 • 912 Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Spoiler Alert: Here's how you can become a top-performing speaker on a global stage! Back on the podcast is Ashley Stahl, the creative brain behind the team that has booked + written over 100 viral Ashley Stahl. Today, we are diving into what it's like to speak on and write for the biggest stage in the world! Ashley shares how she went from working in national security to pivoting to write viral TEDx Talks for ambitious entrepreneurs wanting to spread a message. She'll go over expert strategies to become TED Talk ready, sharing the best ways to prep yourself and your business for major opportunities and viral success. From structuring keynote speeches to dialing in your message, this episode will go over everything you need to step into your season as a powerhouse speaker and speechwriter!
HIGHLIGHTS
00:00 How did you go from national security to TEDx viral success?
07:15 The simplest way to go viral.
13:25 How to know when you're ready for TEDx.
18:20 How to structure a speech.
21:30 What are the biggest opportunities the TED brand provides?
25:00 How to prepare yourself + your business for virality.
29:10 Tips for becoming TED Talk ready.
35:50 How do you become a top-performing speaker?
40:15 Celebrating Ashley's Powerhouse moment of 10xing her impact.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | There was a season of life where you were in counterterrorism. I know. Help us bridge that gap. |
| 0:04.3 | Counterterrorism, helping people write to viral TED talks. It's not the obvious career leave. |
| 0:12.4 | They're like, all right, Ashley, you're promoted. You're going to go travel to all these really |
| 0:15.3 | scary places. I just remember thinking to myself, like, I don't want to do that. This TED talk |
| 0:19.5 | kind of saved me in a way. |
| 0:21.7 | I've never thought about it like that. |
| 0:22.6 | It's kind of saved my life. |
| 0:23.7 | It literally could have. It gave me something to go somewhere and it quantum leap. |
| 0:28.1 | I got a speaking agent. |
| 0:29.7 | He put me on a speaking tour. |
| 0:31.1 | I took my keynote fees from 5K each to 30K each talk. I got six book deals and I got an international licensing deal on my |
| 0:38.3 | courses in Asia that I still get royalties from. The TEDx brand is a democracy of ideas. They're |
| 0:44.0 | not looking for famous people. They are looking for people who want to be there with something |
| 0:47.9 | to say. But the thing about going viral is that it may not be easy, but it's simple. Simply |
| 0:58.4 | Welcome to Powerhouse Women, |
| 1:06.3 | the podcast for women who know they are ready for more. Let's go. Introducing your host and the founder of Powerhouse Women, Lindsay Schwartz. Hi. If you're hungry to grow and expand your career, business, and life, you're in the right |
| 1:15.2 | place. You ready for your breakthrough? Let's do it. |
| 1:18.4 | Powerhouse women! |
| 1:23.3 | If you are a speaker or you're someone who has a dream of being a speaker, then arguably |
| 1:30.0 | one of the most famous stages any speaker can set foot on is the TEDx stage. And today we're |
| 1:38.7 | talking all about how TEDx is really a superhigh way to building your personal brand and also how to go viral |
| 1:48.9 | as a speaker, how to really leverage this platform to grow your brand. I'm sitting down with |
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