Taking the Leap with Dana Knowles [Student Highlight]
The Speaker Lab Podcast
The Speaker Lab
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Sharing in the excitement of our students' success is such a privilege for our team at the Speaker Lab. Our Director of Student Success, Maryalice Goldsmith, is taking the mic for our Student Highlight series so you can hear more about our students’ experiences and what they want you to know about growing your speaking business.
Dana Knowles joined The Speaker Lab in April 2021. Her enthusiasm and motivation are unmatched, and she quickly engaged with our coaches and the Elite program. She’s always loved speaking and realizing she might be able to get paid to speak was a game changer. Passionate about sharing her extraordinary story with audiences, Dana shares more about her product that went to market and how that helped launch her speaking career. She also reveals the importance of accountability, networking, and goal setting as she continues to grow her speaking business.
Dana has overcome, conquered, and continues to strive for excellence. Her conversation with Maryalice will make you feel “not so alone” in the trenches of stepping out in confidence to grow your speaking business!
THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:
- Why coaching and learning from experience matters
- Finding the right time to jump all-in
- Why you can’t afford to make excuses
- Taking the leap to make the financial and emotional investment
- What to do if you’re successful
- What it means to be a procrastinate-achiever
- Reinventing yourself
- And much more!
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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. |
| 0:38.4 | That's what you got to do is go to the speakelab.com slash marketing and we'll see you there. Hey, hey, what's up? Franch Grant Walton |
| 0:47.8 | here. So good to have you here with us for another awesome episode of the speaker lab podcast. |
| 0:51.8 | Now, one of the best parts of TSL is working with our students, |
| 0:56.9 | like day in, day out. We've literally helped thousands of students to build and grow their speaking |
| 1:01.1 | business and to share their message with the world. And I am thrilled that you have the |
| 1:05.8 | opportunity to hear from some of them during our monthly student highlight series. |
| 1:09.7 | Because one of the things you're |
| 1:10.9 | going to find is their stories are going to offer really insight and hope no matter where you are in your speaking career. We're going to talk about exactly what they've done, how they've built their business and some of the results that they're seeing. And so for this series, we're going to do something a little bit different. I'm going to hand the mic to one of our coaches who are in the trenches every single day, helping our students to gain the confidence, the clarity, and that clear |
| 1:31.4 | path that they need to their very own speaking success. I know you're going to love hearing from |
| 1:36.3 | and learning from these students, so let's get right into it. Enjoy. |
| 1:43.6 | Hey, everyone. My name is Mary Alice Goldsmith. I am the director of student success here at the Speaker Lab. And today, it is my great honor to take over the Speaker Lab podcast and introduce you to some of our amazing students. I promise you are going to learn a ton from their experiences. You're going to be |
| 2:01.9 | inspired with how their perseverance and their success. And I know that you're going to love |
| 2:07.7 | every ounce of today's episode because I'm going to introduce you to one of our rock star students. |
| 2:12.8 | I know I said that a lot, but it's really true. Dana Knowles. Dana came to us back in April and just came in like |
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