VAULT: How to Transition Into Speaking Full-time

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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

🗓️ 5 August 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Wondering how to transition into speaking full-time? The Speaker Lab guest today, Erick Rheam, has made the leap, and he'll talk about what it's like to turn pro and make your speaking career a reality.

Erick is one of our original Booked and Paid to Speak students, and today he's a highly successful speaker. But he only recently left his corporate job to pursue his speaking career on a full-time basis.

You'll hear what gave him the confidence to finally leave and so much more on episode 239 of The Speaker Lab.

THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:

When did he know he had to choose between speaking and his job?
What were the two reasons speaking was a good fit for him?
What you should do if your boss isn't supportive of your speaking side hustle.
What are the two keys to being successful at something?
Should your target market and topic evolve throughout your speaking career?
What was the tipping point that showed him it was time to leave his job?
Why you need mentors in your life.
What are the biggest regrets most people have in their lives?
And so much more!

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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.
0:50.9	Hey, hey, what's up, friends? Grant Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaking lab podcast. Today,
0:54.6	we're doing another episode from The Vault where it's kind of a series that we're just going back in the archives, pulling out some timeless classics, some of your favorites, and sharing them with you today. So, listen, if you are considering making the transition to speaking full time, this is the episode for you. Today, we're going to be hearing from and talking with Eric
1:12.0	Riem, who is a former student of the speaker lab, who decided to make speaking his full-time gig.
1:17.5	And also, he works with a lot of our students, works side by side with them, helping them in
1:22.6	the trenches, helping them understand how to find and book gigs and build their speaking business
1:26.3	as well. And so in this episode, Eric talks all about making the transition to full-time speaking,
1:31.4	talks about the keys to success, the evolution of your target market and topic, why
1:36.2	mentors are so important and also some of his biggest regrets as he's built to speaking business.
1:41.3	Eric just has a ton of passion for helping other people navigate the
1:44.7	speaking industry and the expertise to back it up. So he is a phenomenal, phenomenal guy.
1:50.2	Let's get right into it. Here's my conversation from the vault on transitioning to full-time
1:54.0	speaking with Eric Ream. Enjoy.
1:59.6	Hey, what's up for Nge? Graham Baldwin here.
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