Speaking As Your Side Hustle with Ryan Gottfredson

12/08/20 • 39 min

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The beauty of speaking is that you can do it full-time or you can make speaking as your side hustle. Our guest today has done just that. Ryan Gottfredson is a leadership professor at Cal State-Fullerton, and his speaking and consulting work on the topic of mindset is his side hustle.

Today on The Speaker Lab, he explains why the connection speaking offers is so fulfilling for him and how speaking feeds the other avenues of his business today.

Join us to hear his wisdom on these topics and even more on episode 319 of The Speaker Lab.

THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:

Where's the most bang for the buck coming from in his prospecting?
Did his early free gigs help him gain momentum?
Why you want to focus small versus focusing on big.
How effective is speaking as a lead gen tool for his consulting biz?
What questions should you ask before choosing a speaking course?
How has he pivoted as a result of the pandemic?
What early steps does he recommend taking if you are starting out?
And so much more!

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Today on The Speaker Lab, he explains why the connection speaking offers is so fulfilling for him and how speaking feeds the other avenues of his business today.

Join us to hear his wisdom on these topics and even more on episode 319 of The Speaker Lab.

THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:

Where's the most bang for the buck coming from in his prospecting?
Did his early free gigs help him gain momentum?
Why you want to focus small versus focusing on big.
How effective is speaking as a lead gen tool for his consulting biz?
What questions should you ask before choosing a speaking course?
How has he pivoted as a result of the pandemic?
What early steps does he recommend taking if you are starting out?
And so much more!

EPISODE RESOURCES

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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How to Speak On Cultural Diversity and Inclusion with J. Israel Greene

How to speak on cultural diversity and inclusion is our topic for today's edition of The Speaker Lab. Joining us is speaker, consultant and corporate leader J. Israel Greene.

Israel speaks to tech companies on leadership development, diversity equity and inclusion. He works with them on cultural issues that often show up as low employee engagement, stalled sales and poor leadership. He helps them transform that culture through workshops and consulting.

On today's show, Israel tells us when he made the jump to a speaking career and how the Booked and Paid to Speak network has generated over $20k for him in his business. You can hear that and more when you listen in to episode 318 of The Speaker Lab.

THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:

Which of his acting skills does he apply to speaking?
What personal stories does he include in his content?
How did he know he wanted to make speaking into a business?
What are "fuel up" moments?
Can you borrow other people's stories and still be a great speaker?
How to reconcile your interests with what the market needs.
What does he do when he gets frustrated?
How does he use "lunch and learns" to generate business?
And so much more!

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Changing Speaking Topics with Jessica Kriegel

Is changing speaking topics a difficult transition? It can be done and here to tell us about the journey is Jessica Kriegel.

Jessica is an author, leadership expert and speaker who is a researcher at heart. On today's episode of The Speaker Lab, Jessica tells us how and why she got into speaking, what it's been like changing speaking topics and her advice for people looking to make it in the speaking world.

Join us to hear that and more on episode 320 of The Speaker Lab.

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