How to Get Paid for Public Speaking with Grant Baldwin of The Speaker Lab

Getting paid to speak may be more achievable than you think -- but most speakers are going about it the wrong way.

Grant Baldwin is the founder of The Speaker Lab and author of The Successful Speaker, one of the most practical and honest books on building a paid speaking career available. He has helped thousands of speakers find their niche, land their first paid gigs, and build sustainable speaking businesses -- and this conversation gets into the real mechanics of how it's done.

What you'll learn in this episode

How to decide what to speak about in a way that leads to paid bookings, how to find paying opportunities to speak and where most speakers look in the wrong places, the realities of running a professional speaking business that most people don't talk about, which topics have the strongest earning potential for speakers, Grant's S.P.E.A.K. framework for building a speaking career, the two essential tools every paid speaker must have, and the silver lining the pandemic created for professional speakers.

About Grant Baldwin

Grant Baldwin is the founder of The Speaker Lab and host of The Speaker Lab podcast. His book The Successful Speaker is available in print, digital, and audio formats. Find out how The Speaker Lab can help you build a paid speaking career at thespeakerlab.com.

Books mentioned in this episode

The Road Less Stupid by Keith Cunningham, and Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson.

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