Dan Martell, a nontraditional speaker, shares how speaking can be a transformative platform to impact lives. Topics include leveraging platforms for message sharing, creating a nontraditional speaking career, building confidence as a speaker, structuring a talk, using speaking for brand building, and the power of repetition in improving speaking skills.
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From Addiction To SaaS Founder
Dan Martell shares his upbringing from addiction and prison to learning to code and building SaaS companies.
He returns regularly to the rehab facility to speak to at-risk youth and credits that as his deeper why.
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Say Yes To Build Speaking Reps
Always say yes to speaking opportunities because reps create rapid improvement and hidden chances.
Take small gigs like lunch-and-learns to build experience instead of deferring to someone 'better'.
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Iterate Talks, Start With Your Best
Treat speaking like comedians: keep iterating and ship new material to force improvement.
Repetition across varied audiences accelerates discovering what truly works on stage.
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"Speaking is a platform to share a message and a story that could transform somebody's life."
This week, Grant is joined by Dan Martell to talk about how to create a nontraditional speaking career. For Dan, speaking isn’t about the money. It’s a way to spread his message and impact lives. Want to leverage your speaking to create long-term value and develop strong relationships? This is the episode for you.
"If you ever have the opportunity to get on a stage to communicate to other people, you better bring your A game. Because he said that is the highest honor ever."
In this episode, Grant and Dan cover how to:
Leverage platforms to share your message
Create a speaking career that isn’t your sole income
Use speaking for brand building
Find your niche and speak for impact to the audiences you resonate with the most
Get better at speaking with repetition
Play to your strengths as a speaker
Assess the intangible benefits of a speaking career
"I you have the honor and the privilege of getting on a stage, you should decide to be world class at that craft, and doing the reps is part of it."
Episode Chapters:
[00:03:59] When did Dan start coding and why?
[00:05:22] What mindset do you bring to the speaking events you take?
[00:07:45] How to build your confidence as a speaker.
[00:13:57] Dan’s thoughts on structuring a talk.
[00:19:38] Using speaking to build a brand vs it being the “product” you sell.
[00:21:47] Creating content for the brand through your daily actions.
[00:24:02] What it looks like to use your empire to change lives.
[00:30:16] The importance of testing content and staying agile.
[00:31:05] How to play bigger in the marketing/branding space
[00:35:11] Balancing Dan’s schedule and buying back his time.
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