Storytelling, Identity, and Growth in Speaking with Harris III
The Speaker Lab Podcast
The Speaker Lab
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
“I started pursuing meaning instead of money. And I made way more money focusing on meaning and not thinking about money as much as I did when I was laser focused on making more money but living a life that was absent of meaning.”
Welcome back to The Speaker Lab podcast! In today’s episode, host Grant Baldwin sits down with Harris III, an award-winning illusionist, speaker, author, and entrepreneur known for his unique blend of magic and impactful storytelling. Harris shares his journey from humble beginnings to building a career that’s not just about entertainment but inspiring meaningful change.
Together, Grant and Harris dig deep into the art of connecting with audiences, the challenge of moving beyond labels like “Christian magician” or “entertainer,” and how Harris transitions his skills from performing magic to cultivating transformational experiences for organizations across the globe. They talk candidly about entrepreneurship, building a personal brand, and the difference between energizing a crowd and genuinely impacting lives.
If you’ve ever wondered how to stand out as a speaker, the role of storytelling in corporate culture, or how to balance personal fulfillment with business growth, this episode is packed with insights, honest reflections, and practical advice. Plus, Harris opens up about the powerful moments that shaped his career, the challenges of identity in the public eye, and his commitment to helping others unlock their own potential.
Tune in for a conversation that goes behind the scenes of the speaking business and offers inspiration for anyone seeking to make a lasting difference both on and off the stage!
You’ll learn:
- How to transform from a performer to a communicator
- Seeing entrepreneurship as a vehicle for impact
- The limitations of live events
- How price point affects perceptions of speakers
- Industry trends and frustrations with “infotainment”
- The challenges of religious categorization
- Balancing personal satisfaction vs. financial stability
- And much, much more!
“You can have anything you want in life if you just help enough other people get what they want.”
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, friend, are you looking for ways to book more paid speaking gigs? |
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| 0:27.2 | This training is free. |
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| 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. I'm not interested in doing pep rallies. |
| 1:00.1 | I'm interested in my audience instead of going, |
| 1:02.4 | yeah, tell them, amen, preach. |
| 1:04.8 | I like when people are out in front of me squirming |
| 1:07.4 | and clearing their throat nervously |
| 1:09.4 | and looking at the person next to him going |
| 1:11.5 | did he really just acknowledge that elephant in the room because that actually exists in our company |
| 1:15.9 | culture because that's where change happens and I'm not interested in phoning it in and transactionally |
| 1:22.4 | walking on one stage and then walking off the other side after hanging out for 60 minutes and having |
| 1:27.1 | zero impact but saying a bunch of things that got everyone excited. stage and then walking off the other side after hanging out for 60 minutes and having zero |
| 1:27.5 | impact but saying a bunch of things that got everyone excited. |
| 1:38.1 | Hey, it's our friends. Grant Bolden here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. Excited for |
| 1:41.4 | today's conversation with Harris III. This is one that I've known of Harris for many, many years. We've got a lot of podcast excited for today's conversation with Harris the third uh this is one that |
| 1:45.1 | uh i've known of hairs for many many years we got a lot of friends and mutual friends in the space |
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