Unlocking Happiness to Grow Your Business with Bruce Wawrzyniak [Student Highlight]

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The Speaker Lab

Authors, Public Speakers, Public Speaking, How To, Marketing, Smallbusiness, Coaching, Education, Entrepreneurship, Speaking, Business, Side Gig

4.8 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

"If you go through adversity and you don't learn anything from it, that it's a lost opportunity"

This episode of the Speaker Lab Podcast is another excellent episode of our Student Highlight Series. Maryalice Goldsmith, Director of Student Success, sat down with Bruce Wawrzyniak to talk about his speaking business, the career he’s building, and his experience here at the Speaker Lab.

"So which ones are you going to choose? Are you going to choose the negative thoughts and dwell on those, or are you going to choose the positive, happy thoughts and really affect your whole day with the choices that you make just based on all the different thoughts that come in and out of your mind?"

When it comes to developing a speaking career, Bruce reflected on finding his niche, developing confidence in his worth, and learning how to run this operation like a business vs. a hobby. Maryalice and Bruce also cover:

Developing a strategy as a speaker
The importance of happiness in our life
Why you should invest in yourself
How to prepare for success
What it looks like to take action
Why you have to solve a problem for your audiences
And more!

“Hope is not a strategy that will grow your business.”

Episode Chapters:

[00:03:33] Importance of happiness, solution-focused mindset, COVID's impact.

[00:07:19] LinkedIn bio highlights being talkative and adversity.

[00:10:49] Transitioning from unpaid speaking to professional excellence.

[00:15:24] Speaker Lab changes speaker's approach to bookings.

[00:19:57] Learning how to evaluate event opportunities strategically.

[00:23:28] Choose one thing, be successful and prepared.

[00:28:34] What do you need for a successful presentation?

[00:29:47] Benefiting from adversity, helping and inspiring.

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0:00.0	Hey, friend, are you looking for ways to book more paid speaking gigs?
0:03.7	Well, of course you are.
0:04.4	Maybe you're just starting out as a speaker. You're trying to figure out what to prioritize in order to get booked and paid as quickly as possible. Listen, if that's you, I want you to join us for a free live training where you're going to learn how to create the number one marketing asset that you need to consistently book more paid gigs. This is a tool that one speaker on our team used to book over $36,000 in paid gigs before he even had a website.
0:27.2	This training is free.
0:28.1	It's live and we offered a few times a week so you can find a time that works best for you.
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.
0:47.4	Hey, what's up, Rand's Graham Baldwin here, delighted to have you here listening to the Speak
0:54.6	Lab podcast for an episode of our student highlight series.
0:58.2	Now, as you may know, our mission here at the Speakel Lab is to help you get booked and paid
1:02.3	to speak by equipping you with the tools to launch and scale your speaking business.
1:06.5	And we are really, really proud of the thousands of students who have used our programs
1:10.6	and tools to build the speaking business of their dreams.
1:13.7	But you don't have to hear it for me.
1:15.1	You can hear it directly from the incredible people who have gone from aspiring to establish speakers thanks to their hard work and our programs.
1:22.7	Now, if you're a speaker, I know that you have the story of what inspired your message and how you decided where you want to make that impact.
1:29.2	And often that story can be what gives other speakers who are just starting out the confidence to take the first steps towards chasing their dreams.
1:35.7	And so that's why we started this student highlight series where you're going to be able to hear incredible speaker stories straight from our talented and diverse alumni.
1:43.9	I'm going to hand off the mic for
1:45.1	today's conversation to one of our coaches who works with our students every single day,
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