Hey, friend, are you looking for ways to book more paid speaking gigs?

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What is up, my friend? Welcome back to the Speaker Lab podcast. My name is Grant Baldwin.

Good to have you here with us today.

We are on episode 49.

We are about two-thirds of the way through this month, the month of April.

And as you may know, if you are following along, keeping score at home, we've been doing one episode every single day this month 30 episodes and 30 days and uh we are on

episode what would that be like day 21 episode 21 of this month but episode 49 of the

entire i'm confusing myself already so let's just stop talking and and get to today's show

hey before we get into it today we do have another listener question This is another question that I get quite frequently, quite commonly. And so looking forward to talking about the question of, should you speak for free? Does that make sense to speak for free? When does it make sense to speak for free? And so we're going to talk about that. I think a lot of times people have this misconception that speaking for free is a bad thing. And I'm going to bust that myth for you today. So we're going to be talking all about that. But before we do, hey, let me remind you. I know a lot of you have already registered. But we just about every single week, we do these live online trainings and workshops where we are teaching you all about how to find in book speaking engagements. So if you are brand new, you're just getting started, maybe you're a veteran. You've been doing this for a while. You're trying to figure out how to just up your business, up your game. Then we'd love to have you join us. Again, these are totally free online trainings. You can watch these from the comfort of your own home. You can join us, ask questions,

chat with other people. It's a lot of fun, and we would love to have you come hang out with us.

You can register for that by going to free speakerworkshop.com. Again, that is free speakerworkshop.

So definitely stop by there and register for the next live workshop that we're going to be doing.

All right, let's get into today's question.

All right, today's question is all about should you speak for free?

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