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#595: 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 Lab Podcast! Fair warning — host Dan Irvin is ruffling some feathers in this one. In this solo episode, he takes on one of the most common “shortcuts” speakers chase: the speaker bureau. Dan has personally signed up with about a dozen of...
#595: 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 Lab Podcast! Fair warning — host Dan Irvin is ruffling some feathers in this one. In this solo episode, he takes on one of the most common “shortcuts” speakers chase: the speaker bureau. Dan has personally signed up with about a dozen of...

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#590: The SPEAK Framework: How to Build a Speaking Business AI Can't Touch
“Your story told honestly is your edge.” Welcome back to The Speaker Lab Podcast! In this solo episode, host Dan Irvin opens with a story about a factory worker named Gary — a man who worked...
#589: 10 Gigs in 10 Weeks: The 5 Mindset Shifts That Made It Happen with Dan Irvin
“Clarity feels slower in the beginning until confusion costs you months.” Welcome back to The Speaker Lab Podcast! In this solo episode, host Dan Irvin gets candid about what it actually took...
#588: How Erick Rheam Booked A $900,000 Speaking Engagement
“If you can get one paid gig, you can build an empire off that.” Welcome back to The Speaker Lab Podcast! In this episode, Dan Irvin (the newly minted TSL CEO and new host of the TSL podcast!)...
#587: A New Chapter For TSL + The Future of the Speaking Industry with Dan Irvin
“So you can speak to it from a very professional level of here’s what I’m seeing right now, grassroots, I’m in it, I’m doing the thing. And that’s what makes this transition...
#586: Building Your Off Ramp: From Corporate to Full-Time Speaking with Velera Wilson
“Sometimes in today’s society, there’s a pressure to do entrepreneurship the right way. Others have the Instagram businesses that everybody makes look good, but I think everyone has their own particular...
#585: Forging a Path to Purpose-Driven Speaking with Shannon GaNun
“There’s a huge amount of progress that comes from pitching yourself and putting information out there and having discovery calls and doing events and speaking at events and fielding questions and posting...
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#220: How to Get Started as a Speaker with Jason Hewlett
If you are just starting out your main concern might about how to get started as a speaker. Our guest on this episode of The Speaker Lab is here to tell us how he did it. Today Jason Hewlett is a professional...

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