Writing a Book with Jeff Goins

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🗓️ 18 February 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

To commemorate the official launch of my book, The Successful Speaker, my friend and co-author of the book, Jeff Goins, is here!

On this edition of The Speaker Lab, Jeff and I talk about the book writing process for The Successful Speaker: Five Steps For Booking Gigs, Getting Paid, and Building Your Platform. We also give you a behind the scenes look at the making of this book, how this journey began with a joke (!) and how working on this book actually helped Jeff's speaking career.

Join us and you'll find out all of that and so much more on episode 277 of The Speaker Lab with Jeff Goins.

THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:

Why did we decide to co-brand The Successful Speaker?
How do you find the right voice for your book?
Why writing like you speak is terrible advice.
What types of collaborations are there between writers and authors?
Why did Jeff want to try ghostwriting after writing 5 of his own very successful books?
What is the one word that will tell you a book is most likely written by a ghostwriter?
Would Jeff change anything about the book?
Who was our secret hero of writing this book?
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.
0:50.6	Hey, what's up for? I'm Grant Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. Hope you
0:53.6	doing well. Hope you're having a great day. I am so glad you are here. And today is a huge day, huge day, my friends, because today our book, the successful speaker, is available. This is a book that you've probably heard is talking about. You're like, Grant, I'm tired of you talking about that. I'm sorry. We're so proud of the book. The book is awesome and the book is available. You can now get your hands on it. The successful speaker is out in stores everywhere today, February the 18th. Go get your copy of the book. So to commemorate this and to mark this special occasion, we are having, having my partner in crime on this. Jeff
1:29.8	Goins is joining us on today's conversation. We have a conversation that he's asking
1:34.4	us, me some questions and me asking him some questions. We talk about the book writing process,
1:38.5	the journey of him being a non-ghost writer, ghost writer. We talk about just how the book
1:44.0	came to be, all the behind the curtain, behind talk about just how the book came to be, all the behind
1:45.2	the curtain, behind the scenes of how the book came to be, how it has each of our roles in the
1:50.4	process. We also talk about how I basically inception, inception to his brain. Is that the
1:57.0	word? Inception to his brain. We're going to go with that for speaking and how just working on the book
2:01.8	helped his own speaking career.
2:03.4	So a lot of great stuff.
2:04.6	This is a fun conversation.
2:05.8	I think the world of Jeff, and it was really excited to work on this project with him.
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