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Learn how busy and overwhelmed professionals can rediscover their passion, so they can redefine their purpose, and gain the courage to do something about it. We will discuss how to cut through the whirlwinds of life to rise above the chaos and discover a path to significance and ultimately peace.
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Want to learn how to get booked and paid to speak — consistently? The Speaker Lab podcast features business tactics, speaking tips, and insider strategies from Grant Baldwin, The Speaker Lab coaches, and some of the world's most successful speakers. You'll learn how to find speaking gigs, build relationships in your industry, negotiate higher speaker fees, and grow your speaking business. Every week, this podcast will give you key insights and practical advice from speakers who have been the ...
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The State of the Speaking Industry in 2024 with Erick Rheam
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"If you can align your expertise with a specific industry and then really bring tremendous value with a clear ROI, you're always going to win the game." This week, Grant’s on the show with TSL legend Erick Rheam. We’re a little late to this year’s state of the speaking industry, but better late than never, right? "It's not necessarily that budgets …
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What It's Like To Build A Speaking Business With Your Spouse from Dr Reggie & Patrice Wright
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“I feel like I've always been Reggie's administrative assistant with our life. So it was kind of a natural transition just to slide into that.” - Patrice Wright This week, Grant sat down with not 1, but 2 lovely guests to chat about building a speaking business with your spouse! You may remember Dr. Reggie Wright from Episode 471 last fall, but thi…
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Show Notes: erickrheam.com/053 In this episode, Erick Rheam discusses the need to pivot when something is not working or you’ve grown beyond it. Change is our constant companion. Life demands that we evolve and change as things change around us; however, it can be hard to change and it’s not always clear when it’s time to pivot away from something …
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How to Bring an Online Course to Life with Michael Patellis from Copecart
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"The hardest part is just getting started, actually, because a lot of people say, well, yeah, I've got to make it perfect. I've got to do all these slides and presentations, curriculum, all this documentation. The best thing to do is just get started." This week, Grant sat down with Michael Patellis, the cofounder of Copecart, to talk about develop…
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Show Notes: erickrheam.com/052 In this episode, Erick Rheam probes the issues with being a perfectionist in your life. Many times we’re held back by our expectations of what success should look like in our lives. How many times have you abandoned a dream or a project, because you didn’t feel good about it or you didn’t feel ready? Could you be a pe…
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How I Made Six Figures in My First Year as a Speaker with Missy West
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"People buy from you when they feel understood, not when they understand you." This week, Grant’s sitting down with TSL alumna Missy West to talk about her unlikely journey to public speaking and how her speaking career has taken off over the last few years. If you're wondering if you can overcome your fear of being on stage and be successful as a …
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How To Authentically Connect with Your Audience with Katherine Johnson
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“Reframing my approach to public speaking was a game-changer once I recognized I was my own worst critic.” This week, Maryalice sat down with TSL coach Katherine Johnson to chat about all things authenticity on stage. If you think you’re being authentic on stage, this may be the wake-up call you didn’t know you needed! When it comes to presenting o…
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Show Notes: erickrheam.com/051 In this episode, Erick Rheam challenges you to live your story. We’re taught to live a certain story and often we do everything that’s expected of us only to find out we’ve been living someone else’s story and others' expectations of us. Erick debunks that way of thinking by sharing his four key pillars to living our …
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Why You Don't Need A Crazy Story to be a Speaker with Hal Elrod
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“In some ways, my story is a detriment. There's a pro and a con to having overcoming extreme adversity, because people feel disconnected from it. I've had people tell me multiple times after speeches, man, if I went through what you went through, I'd be as happy as you are. And I'm like, no, man, you're missing the point. The principles I just taug…
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How To Create an Engaging and Compelling Keynote with Eva Daniel
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"The biggest mistake that I repeatedly see speakers make is procrastination, just waiting too long to actually start developing the content and too long to practice the delivery." This week, Grant sat down with Eva Daniel to talk about one of the most important parts of being an effective speaker — creating and delivering an engaging speech. Eva is…
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Show Notes: erickrheam.com/050 In this episode, Erick Rheam interviews Rise Above Chaos student Ken McCoy about his experience with the RAC system and how it motivated him to leave his job and start his own business. Ken describes his experience going through RAC workshop and the vision exercise that planted the seed that would ultimately lead to t…
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Introducing: Talk Speaker To Me - Let's Talk Prospecting with Erick Rheam
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We're so excited to announce the launch of our new podcast, Talk Speaker To Me! Talk Speaker to Me will bring you 10-15 minute episodes every Thursday filled to the brim with super practical, actionable advice. If this sounds like what you're looking for, search for Talk Speaker To Me on Apple, Spotify, and subscribe for weekly updates! P.S. Have n…
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The 500th Episode Special: How Did You Get Into That with Grant Baldwin
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"I remember you kind of making this decision to turn The Speaker Lab into what it is today. You wanted to scale it, you wanted to grow it, make a bigger impact on people, and you really did, man." - Shane Sams Today we’re celebrating a massive milestone on The Speaker Lab Podcast, so, here’s the deal! We invited Grant's good friend Shane Sams to in…
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The #1 Piece of Advice You Need to Hear From the Top Speakers In the Industry
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We're just one episode away from the big one — #500! As we wrap up this series, we're bringing in the best speakers we know to share their #1 piece of advice for speakers who want to get to the next level. These speakers are the best of the best — combined, they've booked thousands of gigs and made tens of millions of dollars in speaking fees. If y…
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Book Report - Mindset Shift by Erwin Raphael McManus
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Show Notes: erickrheam.com/049 In this episode, Erick Rheam, reviews the book, Mindset Shift by Erwin Raphael McManus. Leaders are readers. It’s important to have a consistent reading habit so you can evolve in your thinking and expand your paradigm of the world. Erick unpacks some of the highlights that stuck out to him from Erwin Raphael’s book, …
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Our Best Practical Advice for Speakers from The Speaker Lab Team
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This week on the podcast, we’re excited to share our best tips, tricks, and amazing speaking advice from our coaching/support team and our resident speakers here at The Speaker Lab. Our team has decades of combined experience both as speakers themselves and as coaches helping other speakers like you take things to the next level. This episode is fu…
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5 Tips to Build Your Speaking Business from the TSL Leadership Team
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We’re back and one episode closer to 500! This week, we brought in the Leadership Team here at the Speaker Lab to help us learn about managing a speaking business from their areas of expertise. It's a shorter episode than usual, but it's full of tips and practical advice to help you level up your speaking business right now. Through this episode, y…
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The Power of Supporting Others with Tony Anderson
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Show Notes: erickrheam.com/048 In this episode, Erick Rheam interviews philanthropist Tony Anderson about the power of giving to support others. Tony is the founder of Cooperative Family Fund, a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to supporting the children of fallen rural electric cooperative employees. Tony describes how he connected with…
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7 Speaking Tips from 7 Amazing Female Speakers
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We are just a few episodes away from 500, and we wanted to make our countdown to this celebration something special! Today, you’ll be hearing from not one, not two, but SEVEN amazing women in speaking. They are sharing their tips, tricks, and advice to help you launch a speaking career. Throughout this episode, you’ll learn about how to show up on …
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Your Front Row Seat To Life As A Speaker with Erin Pompa
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“We can serve everybody, but that's being selfish, because it is impossible to give deep impactful, valuable change in a certain demographic if you are serving everyone in the world." This week, Brittany Richmond and Erin Pompa sat down to talk about all things speaking. Erin’s been a youth speaker for years and has had just about every experience …
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Show Notes: erickrheam.com/047 In this episode, Erick Rheam interviews successful entrepreneur Brett Snodgrass. Brett is the founder of Iron Deep, a men’s community with a foundation rooted in Christ for successful business leaders. He discusses why he created the group a year ago and how it solved a problem for him and how he helps other men pause…
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How to Build a Life of Significance Outside Your Speaking Business with Aaron Walker
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"And what I found out, Grant, that I was building a level of success financially, but I was doing it from a huge relationship deficit. And I didn't know my daughters like I should, and I didn't know my wife like I should." This week, Grant sat down with Aaron Walker, aka Big A, to talk about how to build a life of significance outside of what you d…
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Why YOU Might Be the Reason Your Business Isn't Growing with Jake Thompson
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"I've always, always had the mentality, that I'm going to out-prepare and outperform you. I just want the audience to leave, thinking "Yeah, we had that person who was an Olympic athlete or a pro athlete, but this guy over here who was like, working at a gas station selling t-shirts, that guy put on a show. And so I've always had the mentality to l…
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Show Notes: erickrheam.com/046 In this episode, Erick Rheam interviews foreign policy expert, Dr. Liam Collins. Liam describes his journey from the team captain of the cross-country/track team at Army West Point to team leader of a special forces group dropping into Afghanistan in response to the 9/11 terrorist attack, to a significant influencer t…
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Why You Don't Need a Bureau to Get Paid Speaking Gigs with Brandon Edmondson
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“I think the potential disadvantage with the bureau is you might have this idea, like, if I'm on a bureau's website and they booked me once, that could really turn into something big. And that's really not the reality." Grant sat down with Brandon Edmondson, VP of Sales at Premiere Speaker Bureau, to dig into the current state of the speaking indus…
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7 Things to Consider Before Going Full-Time as a Speaker with Jeremy Rochford
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"The goal is to look at the science because there is a step by step metric to keep tabs on your career so that you know without a doubt, is this or is this not the right time to go full time?" This week, Maryalice Goldsmith is joined on the podcast by Jeremy Rochford to talk about when it’s time to go full-time with your speaking. Jeremy has a 7-st…
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Don't Be Afraid to Have Conversations with Deb Feder
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Show Notes: erickrheam.com/045 In this episode, Erick Rheam interviews business coach, Deb Feder. Deb shares her mission to help busy professionals have big careers and big lives and feel they can work togethers. She discusses the four things to stop and rethink how professionals manage their days by being responsive and responsible. Deb shares tho…
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How Finding Your Niche Will Unlock Your Growth with Amy Pechacek
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"I did not see this being a full time gig at the time. I just thought I was going to be speaking, like, at churches or something, right? So I thought I was speaking at women events, women's conferences and things like that while doing my nine to five, maybe on the weekends." This week, Grant Baldwin sat down with former TSL Student, Amy Pechacek, t…
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How to Leverage Workshops to Build a 7-Figure Speaking Business with Erick Rheam
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"And what better way than to expand your reach than to do workshops where you can really make an impact?" This week, TSL Facilator and full-time speaker, Erick Rheam is on the podcast talking about how he’s personal scaled his business through workshops. Erick has a 4 step system for breaking into the workshop world to help unlock your income and y…
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The Power of Coaching with Jim Bishop
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Show Notes: erickrheam.com/044 In this episode, Erick Rheam interviews certified leadership coach, Jim Bishop. Jim shares his story and how coaching helped him find balance in his life and why he feels it’s important for busy, professional leaders to be intentional about their work and lives in a way that allows them to have long and fruitful caree…
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