The Secret to Landing TEDx and the Biggest Stages on Earth - Even if You are Just Starting Out with Taylor Conroy
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Taylor Conroy has spoken at TEDx, Harvard, Princeton, the United Nations, Google, LuluLemon, KPMG and to 100K people globally. He is the expert at landing TEDx Talks and huge stages around the world.
Top 3 Value Bombs
1. One mistake that aspiring speakers make is they get so honed in, focused, crazy and maniacal. They lose sight of what is actually important in a talk, and that is experience.
2. If you've gone through a whole bunch of stuff in your life, you went through it for a reason. You went through it so that you can help other people go through it faster, to live more comfortably, happier, more euphoric lives.
3. Know exactly what you stand for as a speaker and the experience that you want the audience to have.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Boom! Shake the room, Fire Nation! JLD here and welcome to Entrepreneurs on Fire, brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, |
| 0:10.0 | the audio destination for business professionals with great shows like Business Made Simple. Today we'll be breaking down the secret to landing TEDx in the biggest stages on Earth, even if you are just starting out. |
| 0:23.0 | To drop these via bombs, I brought Taylor Conroy into EO Fire Studios. Taylor has spoken at TEDx Harbor Prints Inn in the United Nations, Google, Lululemon, KPMG, and to a hundred thousand people globally. |
| 0:35.0 | He is the expert at landing TEDx talks in huge stages around the world, and we'll talk about how much money somebody can make as a speaker, a clear path to making over 30k a month, as a speaker. |
| 0:46.0 | Aspiring speakers make a lot of mistakes, what's the biggest mistake and so much more Fire Nation, and we actually have a live webinar that you can go to with me and Taylor, and it's free, |
| 1:00.0 | www.thought-leaders.com-fire-leaders.com-fire. Come and join us on this live webinar if you miss it. Go to the same URL because there's going to be a recording of that webinar which will have so much value, and as soon as we get back from thanking our sponsors, we will dive right in. |
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| 1:33.0 | The Hustle Daily Show brings you a healthy dose of irreverent off-beat informative takes on business and tech news, like a recent episode on hackers versus casinos, where the hosts talk about MGM resorts and Caesars entertainment and the devastating potential of cyber attacks. |
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| 1:50.0 | Shopify is the global commerce platform that powers 10% of all e-commerce in the U.S. |
| 1:56.0 | Santa for a $1 per month trial period at Shopify.com slash on fire all lowercase. Go to Shopify.com slash on fire now to take your business to New Heights, no matter what stage you're in. |
| 2:09.0 | Taylor say what's up to fire nation and share something that you believe about becoming successful that most people disagree with. |
| 2:21.0 | Oh, consistency is sexy period. |
| 2:25.0 | Oh, fire nation. Taylor's to the point. He is drop in value bombs on the secret to landing TEDx and the biggest stages on earth. |
| 2:34.0 | Even if you are just starting out, we're going to be talking a lot about you fire nation having a clear path to make in dollar dollar bills, y'all when you're speaking. |
| 2:45.0 | Taylor, I want to put you in the shoes of many of my listeners today here. If you were starting at zero and wanted to be a highly paid speaker, what the heck would you do? |
| 2:57.0 | First thing is I would something I would not do and I would not think that speaking is this ambiguous mysterious enigma of an industry that maybe sometimes you land a gig and sometimes it's three grand five grand three hundred bucks and two thousand bucks or whatever it might be and realize it's a business. |
| 3:15.0 | It is a process. I should have been speaking all over the world for I don't know 12 years. I've spoken in front of a hundred thousand people on six continents and the one thing I've learned is that none of it is mysterious. |
| 3:28.0 | Everything is repeatable. Everything is predictable when you have the right road map. |
| 3:33.0 | So what would you want fire nation to do starting off if they've just consumed what you just shared and they're on board with that. |
| 3:41.0 | If enough people know that you speak. If enough people know that you're on a mission to do something great in the world let's say. |
| 3:48.0 | If enough people know then you're going to get asked to speak there's nothing crazy mysterious about it so the mission becomes very very clear. |
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