What the Best of the Best Do Differently with Alan Stein, Jr.
The Speaker Lab Podcast
The Speaker Lab
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2017
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Do you know what the best of the best do differently? There are universal principles, and our guest today will tell you what they are on this episode of The Speaker Lab.
Alan Stein, Jr.'s career began as a performance coach working with youth and high school programs. The two schools he started with are part of Nike's elite programs. That work led to gigs with Nike and USA Basketball, which then opened more doors to the best coaches and players of the NBA.
It was at that elite level that Alan learned what the best of the best do differently. He took that knowledge and began sharing it as a speaker, first in the basketball industry and then in the corporate world where he is today.
On this episode of The Speaker Lab, we talk about how he made a name for himself in the basketball world and then transitioned into speaking for the corporate industry. He shares the process he uses to find and book gigs, and why much of his success has come from work nobody sees. He finishes with a great story about being part of a workout with Kobe Bryant, and the lessons Alan learned just by watching him.
Whether or not you're a basketball fan there is plenty for you to uncover when you join us on episode 160 of The Speaker Lab!
THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:
- What is the key to being successful as a speaker, according to Alan?
- What are the two sides of any speech?
- Who are the coaches he has worked with, and why does he believe in coaching?
- What is purposeful practice and why do you need it?
- How do you know if your content works and what should you do if it doesn't?
- How to combine serving others with self-promotion.
- The advice from Louis CK he follows, and why you should too.
- How many years does it take to "make it" in the speaking circuit?
- And so much more!
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| 0:49.7 | Hey, what's on my friends? Grant Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. Hey, today |
| 0:53.4 | we are on episode one six zero 160 and we got a great guest for you. Today, we are talking with my buddy, Alan |
| 0:59.8 | Stein Jr. Now, Alan comes actually from the basketball world. The guy has worked with some of the greatest |
| 1:05.6 | NBA players on the planet. Seriously, and he shares a great story here. I'll touch on in just a second. |
| 1:11.5 | But did a lot of basketball coaching and training and then got into speaking and then actually |
| 1:16.7 | recently transitioned from speaking kind of in the basketball world into speaking in the |
| 1:20.8 | corporate world. So we talk about how he's made that transition, how he transitioned to corporate, |
| 1:24.9 | how he figured out what his topic was. Talk about how he built his name as a speaker even in the basketball world long before he got into the corporate space. Talk about what has worked for him to find in book gigs, why much of his success as a speaker has come from the work that nobody sees. And then also at the end, if you're a basketball fan, you're going to love this. He shares a great story about being part of a workout with Kobe Bryant that you're not going |
| 1:44.5 | to want to miss. |
| 1:44.9 | So make sure you stick around for that. |
| 1:46.8 | So let's get right into it. |
| 1:47.9 | Here's my conversation with Alan Stein Jr. |
| 1:50.0 | from allensine Jr.com. |
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