Self Awareness and Forming Lasting Relationships in Speaking with Brad Lomenick

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🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

“Content is still important, but content is much more of a commodity. So the premise has to be that we’ve got to create something…It has to include conversation, it has to include community, it has to include the idea that there’s going to be something that’s analog that happens.”

In this week’s episode of The Speaker Lab, Grant Baldwin chats with Brad Lomenick about what truly makes speakers memorable. Brad’s big takeaway is that being great to work with matters even more than being the most dynamic person on stage.

Brad shares that self-awareness is key: know your strengths, get feedback, and focus on the type of events where you shine. He also highlights the importance of personal touches like connecting with organizers, knowing your audience, and showing genuine kindness.

Ultimately, it’s the offstage moments and relationships you build that lead to lasting success. Want to get booked again and again? Prioritize being a good human, not just a good speaker!

You’ll learn:

The value of feedback in improving as a communicator
Pursuing growth without losing sight of strengths
How to elicit helpful criticism
The difference between different types of feedback
Navigating the challenge of competing with digital content
Building community and trust as a speaker
Tips for making big rooms feel “smaller”
The long-term effect of how speakers treat people off-stage
And much, much more!

“Sometimes our own personal emotions are not the best indicator because we look at [our talk] and go, oh, I crushed it, and the audience looks at it and goes, good intentions.”

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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. People want to work with people they like, period.
1:01.9	Even if you're a below average of somebody, another communicator or speaker, if they're
1:08.0	hard to work with and they're dramatic, or that they don't respond, they're, you know, they're hard to work with and they're dramatic and they're it's or that they don't respond,
1:13.6	they're, you know, they're tough to manage.
1:16.6	I don't care who you are.
1:18.6	Like, you will probably not get invited back.
1:21.6	So I would say you want to fast forward the friendship with these people.
1:37.9	Hey, what's that friend?
1:38.8	Welcome back to the Speaking of Lab podcast.
1:40.9	Excited to be chatting with Brad Lamanick today.
1:43.7	And I've known of brad for
1:45.6	many many years we just recently got introduced by a mutual friend and uh this guy is a uh a speaker
1:51.0	author writer consultant advisor works with a lot of speakers and then also has been behind the scenes
1:57.1	uh working with some major events that we'll touch on to talk about as well. So he has been in the speaker atmosphere for many, many years. And so, Brad, welcome to the show. Good to have you here, man. Thank you. Grant, it's good to be here. How would you describe? Well, I was going to say, I don't know which of those I want to claim. Yeah, I mean, if you're meeting someone for the first time,
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