The Wealthy Speaker Scoop - Issue 3

Learning from Mistakes in Your Speaking Business

Welcome to this month’s Wealthy Speaker Scoop - a monthly newsletter designed to share tips, strategies, and resources to help professional speakers build the speaking business of their dreams and live a wealthy speaker life.

This month we’re going to dive into a topic that can be uncomfortable for some: mistakes, blunders, and failure.

The truth is, making mistakes is something that every speaker will encounter as they start and grow their speaking business. I know because I’ve made my share of them, and I’ve also talked to many other speakers who are open and honest about the missteps they’ve taken in the past.

When it comes to failures, mistakes, and blunders in business, it’s what you do with it that makes the difference. When you learn from your mistakes - without constantly beating yourself up about them - you gain new ideas, techniques, and insights that can fuel your growth.

Learning from mistakes is an important skill no matter what level you’re at in your speaking business. This edition of the Wealthy Speaker Scoop is dedicated to emerging speakers, rising superstars, and seasoned pros who could benefit from the wisdom and advice of those of us who have made mistakes and used the lessons we learned to spark future success.?

Through these resources, I hope you will come to view mistakes not as evidence that “I can’t do this” but rather as opportunities to learn and grow!

I’ll see you soon, Wealthy Speaker!

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Podcast: My Greatest Mistakes as a Speaker with John Register

“The mission is to hurdle adversity, amputate fear, embrace a new normal mindset to win life’s medals.”

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If I’d only known then what I know now. A thought we’ve all had at one time or another. What are the things you wish you had done differently when starting your speaking business? On this episode of The Wealthy Speaker Show, we welcome John Register to share his experience and discuss some of the decisions that may make your journey to creating the speaking business of your dreams a little smoother.

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#SpeakerSuccessTip - Don’t Wait for Everything to Be Perfect

When your business is all about you and representing yourself, it is easy to get caught up in the small details and wanting all of the conditions to be perfect before beginning a new project.?

Though the intentions are genuine, it can delay projects and set you back.

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Are you an emerging speaker who wants to avoid some common mistakes?

When it comes to building a profitable speaking business, there are five critical elements for success: you need to manage your mindset, set your fees, pick a lane, choose your audience, and get booked.

We’ll be covering each of these elements during the Get Started. Get Speaking. 5 Day Challenge that kicks off on April 25, 2022, and I invite you to join us!?

Your Challenge experience includes video lessons each morning, live Zoom calls every afternoon, worksheets, and a private Facebook community.

This is a great opportunity to learn the RIGHT way to set up a successful speaking business and avoid the pitfalls that so many other speakers make.

It all happens April 25-29, so join today!

LEARN MORE AND SIGN UP

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5 Lessons from Failure in Your Speaking Business

A speaking business is a business. We have plans, systems, processes, some of us have a team, and what goes along with all of it? Mistakes, blunders, and failures. Whether those failures are big or small, all of us will experience them from time to time as we grow our business.?

Now it’s time to get personal. A couple of weeks ago my team and I launched our latest 30-Day Challenge. And, of all the events we’ve run over the years, this one had the most problems we’ve ever encountered. Epic fails. One after the other. From technical issues to scheduling snafus, let’s just say it was an “embarrassment of riches.” Riches in the form of errors!

But things like this happen. Failure happens in business, and it’s what you do with it that makes the difference. That’s why I’ve reflected on what went wrong and would like to share five lessons from failure in your speaking business that you can learn from too.

For more on this, read the original blog article HERE.

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As a business coach for speakers, Jane Atkinson realizes “It's hard to see the label when you're inside the jar." Her specialty is helping professional speakers at every level identify and move past the things that may slow their business growth, which is why she founded?Speaker Launcher.

Over the past three decades, Jane has helped hundreds of speakers build 6 and 7-figure speaking businesses using her proven Ready, Aim, Fire method. Through private coaching and her highly popular?Wealthy Speaker School, which includes a dynamic online course, group coaching, and a community of speaking peers, Jane helps speakers at every level of the journey.

As one long-term client shared:

"What changed for me working with Jane? Everything…we’ve been together since the beginning and 3 years later we are well on our way to building a million-dollar business. She is the definitive Speaker Launcher!”

- Ryan Estis, Performance Expert