Speaking Your Life's Story with Josh Sundquist
The Speaker Lab Podcast
The Speaker Lab
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
How do you make a living speaking your life's story and stand out from other motivational speakers?
How do you position yourself and make your story relevant and applicable to the right audiences? The man with the answers to those questions is our guest today, Josh Sundquist.
Josh is an incredible speaker with an equally incredible life story, which he shares today along with what separates those speakers who make it from those who don't and the importance of hustle. It's all here on episode 255 of The Speaker Lab.
THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:
- How does he track the data of potential clients and leads?
- Do you have to have a crazy life story to speak about your life?
- How can you find your story?
- What is a requirement to be successful at sharing and speaking your life's story?
- What is his motto and how does it relate to his speeches?
- How he has narrowed down his topic to appeal to specific groups.
- Why should you speak to anyone, anytime and anywhere?
- Why the job of being a motivational speaker isn't just giving speeches.
- And so much more!
EPISODE RESOURCES
- Josh Sundquist's web site
- Josh Sundquist on YouTube
- Josh Sundquist on Twitter
- Josh's advice for aspiring speakers
- The Speaker Lab on YouTube
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Fran, Graham Baldwin here. |
| 0:01.4 | Hey, what if I told you that there was a single marketing asset that you could use to book tens of thousands of dollars in paid speaking gigs before you even have a website? |
| 0:10.2 | Well, that tool exists. |
| 0:11.4 | And Dan Irvin, one of the speakers on our team, used it to book over $36,000 in speaking gigs without a fancy website or any social media presence. |
| 0:19.6 | Even better, we're going to teach you exactly how |
| 0:22.1 | to create that tool for your speaking business in under an hour. For a limited time, we're going to |
| 0:26.9 | be offering a free live training on how to build and use this marketing asset to start booking |
| 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 speakelab.com slash marketing and we'll see you there. |
| 0:48.9 | Hey, what's up, my friend. Grant Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. Good to |
| 0:52.0 | have you here. Glad you are joining us. Today we have a longtime speaker friend of mine, Josh Sunquist, who is going to be hanging out with us. Josh is a very successful speaker. He has an insane life story. And I've referenced him numerous times. Maybe you've heard me talk about him. I'll let him share his life story. But we talk a lot about that. You're a speaker, a motivational speaker. You've got a crazy life story. How do you incorporate that into something that is relevant and applicable for audiences? How do you position yourself in the way that you don't get lost in the sea of other motivational stories with cool or motivational speakers with crazy life stories? So we have just a wide-ranging conversation here that I think you're |
| 1:27.5 | really going to enjoy. You're really going to get a lot from. We also just talk about what makes the difference between speakers that make it and speakers that don't. Josh has been in the game for a long time. And so he shares some wisdom and insight there at the end. So Lada, I think you're going to learn from them. So before we get to today's episode, let me remind you, if you haven't already, you definitely want to stop by and check out our YouTube channel. |
| 1:45.2 | So over there, we are dropping new videos every single week, |
| 1:48.4 | and so we'd love to connect with you there. You can go to YouTube.com slash the speaka lab, |
| 1:53.0 | YouTube.com slash the speak lab, especially some speech breakdowns. We're taking |
| 1:56.4 | popular keynotes and presentations and keynote speakers and taking some of their talks |
| 2:00.6 | and adding some context their talks and adding |
| 2:01.5 | some context to them, adding some, or a little breakdown and feedback to them. So I think you can |
| 2:05.4 | definitely learn a lot there. So check those out. All right, let's get to this conversation |
| 2:08.9 | with Josh Sunquist. Enjoy. |
| 2:16.2 | Hey, what's our friends? Grah Baldwin here. Welcome back to the Speakelab podcast. Today, joined by my buddy Josh Sunquist. And actually, it's really cool to have Josh here with us. Josh and I got started probably similar time way back when. And remember we compared notes early on of just like, what are we doing? How do we do this? And how do we become speakers? And I think we've learned a couple things along the way. So, Josh, thanks for hanging out with us today. Yeah, likewise, man. |
| 2:37.2 | Thanks for having me on we become speakers and I thinkably we've learned a couple things to along the way so josh thanks |
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