How to Get Booked Without a Following
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Grant Baldwin from The Speaker Lab podcast will be sharing speaking business tactics, tips, and strategies from his own experience, case studies, and interviewing the experts. Whether you're...
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20 of 651 episodesHow to Make Decisions That Stick with Julian V. Taylor
"I made a decision in my head, I'm going to America. I'm going to come here, build a business, live a life, get a green card, then get citiz...
The 85% of Your Speaking Business Nobody Talks About
"The famine is not caused by the famine. The famine is caused by what you did not do during the feast." Welcome back to The Speaker Lab Podc...
Why Charging More Actually Gets You Booked More
"Undercharging is not humility. It is a positioning problem and oftentimes a confidence problem. And that confidence problem is wearing a hu...
How to Build the Speaking Business You Actually Want with Carlos Hidalgo
"And I realized I had bought into someone else's definition of what success looked like and even career path. And I find that so many people...
How to Get Booked When You Don't Have a Track Record with Bill Englehaupt
“Constancy of purpose says we're in, we're locked, we're going until we get to a point where we have sufficient data or an understanding of...
Finding the Audience That Actually Needs Your Message with Robin Blair
“You can't get through it if it's not real.” Welcome back to The Speaker Lab Podcast! In this alumni speaker connection episode, Dan sits do...
The No's Don't Get a Vote with Marcus Dove
"And so I'm sending out the emails, I'm doing the work, I'm following the process, and I'm not really getting any responses. And so by the e...
You Don't Need a Superpower, You Need a System with Amy LaBelle
"You do not need a superpower. You simply need a system that gets you one step at a time, one day at a time, toward your goal." Welcome back...
Navigating the Fog: Getting Clear on What You Actually Want with Scott Hacker
"We're always going a hundred miles an hour. So we never even realize that we're driving through fog all that time." Welcome back to The Spe...
Why Loving the Process Beats Loving the Stage with Matthew Sharpe
“The better the foundation is, the more opportunities I'm getting to do exactly that.” Welcome back to The Speaker Lab Podcast! This week's...
The Question That Flips the Switch on Fear with Jennifer Ryan
"What if I didn't let it stop me? What if I just push past it?" Welcome back to The Speaker Lab Podcast! In this Alumni Spotlight episode, D...
Value Over Volume: Why the Best Speakers Lead by Giving with Michael Hidalgo
"When you're late, you tell people you don't care. I didn't agree with it at the moment. But then I started really just disciplining myself....
How to Turn Free Talks Into Paid Speaking Gigs with Dr. David Chastain
"I didn't get paid to go to Seattle, but I made a good connection there that I will be paid for." Welcome back to The Speaker Lab Podcast! I...
The Ugly Start: Why Momentum Beats Perfection with Chris Jackson
"It's never gonna be right. It's gonna be good enough to get started. You have enough to get started — just get started." Welcome back to Th...
Why People Buy — and How Speakers Get It Backwards — with Kevin Sidebottom
"You have to have influence. That's the relational collateral that gets everything done. Think of it like a bank account — the more you put...
How to Sell a Message Nobody's Heard of Yet with Danny Karon
"I said to my wife literally yesterday: for the first time in 60 years — I just turned 60 — I feel like I've found my true calling." Welcome...
The Truth About Speaker Bureaus: 3 Things You Need to Hear
"I finally realized I was not paying for a service. I was paying for hope. And hope is not a business strategy." Welcome back to The Speaker...
Which Type of Stuck Speaker Are You?
"Preparation feels like progress. It's not." Welcome back to The Speaker Lab Podcast! After thousands of calls with speakers at every stage,...
Why Your Follower Count Isn't Filling Your Calendar
"A speaker with 200 followers and 30 conversations a month is going to out-earn a creator with tens of thousands of followers and zero conve...