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Hey, what's up my friend? Graham Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. So good to

have you here with us today. I hope those of you who at least are in the U.S. had a good Thanksgiving last week. Can't believe we are already in the final month of the year, which again, if you look all the way back to January 1, what progress have you made in your speaking business? We've got a few weeks left in this year. What progress are you

going to be making in 2020 on your speaking business? So I'd encourage you to take action.

One of the best ways to take action is through our brand new book that is coming out. We are so

excited. February 18th, 2020, the book will be out called The Successful Speaker, Five Steps to

Booking Gigs, Getting Paid, and Building Your Platform.

We already have a bunch of pre-order bonuses put together for you just to incentivize, encourage you,

including you can get, if you buy the book, you can also get the audiobook for free.

So you can get all the details for that over at thespeakerlab.com slash book. Again, you can find that over at the speakerlab.com slash book. So we've got that pre-order bundle available just for a little bit longer. So make sure you go ahead and snag that again over at the speakerlab.com slash book. It makes a great little stocking stiffer, perhaps. All right. So today we got a great conversation with Josh Linkner. Josh has been in the speaking business for a long time. He's got a lot of experience, got a lot of wisdom to share with us. We talk a wide range of topics. We talk about how much speaking he does. You'll be surprised. He does a lot of speaking, how he manages that, how he figured out that that was the right amount for him. One of things we talk talk about is there's no right or wrong amount to speaking that you can do. He does a lot of gigs, well over 100 gigs a year. And so we talk about how he landed on that. We talk about how much he charges. He's very open and honest and sharing that. We also talk about bureaus and his relationship with bureaus, whether or not you should be working with bureaus. And we spent some time talking about speaking fees, knowing what you said, set them at, how you should raise them, when you should raise them, a lot of different variables and factors that go into that. So again, wide-ranging practical conversation. I think you're going to get a lot from this. So let's jump into this conversation with Josh Linkner. Enjoy.

Hey, what's our friends? Grant Baldwin here. Welcome back to the Speak Lab podcast. Today joined by Josh Linkner. Josh, thanks for hanging out with us, man. We appreciate it.

Truly a pleasure to be with you today. I know we were just talking a little bit beforehand.

I know we have a lot of mutual friends. This is our first time to cross pass in the industry.

But I know you've also been in the industry for a long time.

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