Turning Speaking Failures into Business Growth with Daniel Harkavay
The Speaker Lab Podcast
The Speaker Lab
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
“If you impact one leader and that leader shows up better, then that leader engages better with his or her team. And then if that’s a good experience and it’s consistent, then those teammates do the same for their team. And all of a sudden you’re cascading down.”
One of the best things about being a speaker? You get to write your own story—and Daniel Harkavy’s is proof that the path isn’t always smooth, but it’s definitely worth it. In this episode, Daniel opens up about his rocky first speaking gig, however instead of quitting, he uses that failure as fuel. As a result, speaking became the key to growing his coaching business—not just for applause, but to make real connections and lasting impact.
Daniel reminds us that success on stage isn’t about being perfect, it’s about leaning into your strengths, learning from the mess-ups, and using your unique voice to serve others. Speaking doesn’t have to be your end game—sometimes it’s the launchpad for something even bigger. His big takeaway is to embrace what makes you different, seek out opportunities to serve, and don’t let imposter syndrome hold you back. There’s no single way to build a speaking business—so create one that excites you while opening doors for others, too.
You’ll learn:
- Overcoming imposter syndrome in speaking
- The role of speaking in business growth
- Speaking as a lead generation tool
- Balancing speaking and coaching
- How to determine the “right audience”
- Scaling a coaching/speaking business
- Modernizing speaking business structures
- And much, much more!
“Build a life plan and then a schedule that enables you to flourish and rejuvenate so that when you go out on the road, you are the best version of yourself.”
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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. You do it long enough. |
| 0:57.8 | You stay at the craft, you work at it, and you go to another level that is beyond knowing |
| 1:05.0 | it works. |
| 1:06.2 | And that is that deep belief and conviction that it works. |
| 1:09.7 | Imposter syndrome goes away with reps. It goes away |
| 1:13.6 | with stories. It goes away with failure and experience and improvement. And you get comfortable. |
| 1:20.0 | And you don't want to get too comfortable to where you take it for granted, but you just are no |
| 1:24.3 | longer so worried about you and you're more worried about, I hope what I'm |
| 1:28.2 | going to say is going to be beneficial for them. |
| 1:36.4 | As our friends, Grant Bolden here, welcome back to the Speak Al-Podcast. |
| 1:39.6 | Really excited for this one, talking to a good friend, Daniel Harkavycovy today who is the founder, CEO of a |
| 1:46.2 | coaching company building champions. They've been at it for nearly 30 years. This guy's a legend, |
| 1:52.4 | and so have an enormous amount of respect and admiration for him. And so we're going to talk about |
| 1:57.2 | coaching. We're going to talk about speaking, how speaking kind of fit into his world, and then also how he has scaled his business and what we can learn from that as speaker. |
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