Episodes

  • How to create a 7 figure Speaking Business - #147

    How to create a 7 figure Speaking Business - #147
    May 18 2022

    How to create a 7 figure Speaking Business - #147

    Ford Saeks has redefined a formula for business success. His efforts have helped companies generate a total of over a billion dollars in sales worldwide from startups to Fortune five hundred six is widely recognized as a business growth innovator with over 20 years of experience ranging from retail to wholesale, authored several books awarded three US patents and received numerous industry awards. tenacity and innovation are what fuel this revenue-generating powerhouse from grassroots to Google Ford provides its clients with fresh perspectives and doable tactics to resolve marketing operations and growth challenges. As President and CEO of prime concepts group Incorporated, Ford specializes in helping businesses attract loyally and repeat customers, monetize social media, and ignite creativity. We’re happy to have him here with us today. So please give a warm welcome to Ford Saeks

    Questions:

    • What are the most important key factors of a 7-figure speaking business?
    • How did you get started in this business and why?
    • How do you stand out in such a competitive industry?
    • What are the landmines to avoid that will kill a speaking career? With so many options, what are the top 3 secrets of success in this business?
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    33 mins
  • Question Time with Maria Franzoni and James Taylor - #146

    Question Time with Maria Franzoni and James Taylor - #146
    May 4 2022
    James Taylor brings you weekly speaker training, interviews and public speaking tips. You'll learn strategies on how to launch and grow your professional speaking business. The SpeakersU Podcast will teach you how to become a better public speaker and ways to get booked to travel the world as a highly-paid keynote speaker. You’ll go behind-the-scenes as innovation keynote speaker, creativity expert and speaking business coach James Taylor travels the world speaking at global conferences and interviewing top leadership speakers, business speakers and speaker bureaus. Subjects covered in the SpeakersU Podcast include how to become a top keynote speaker, motivational speaker or public speaker, working with speaking bureaus, how to make money speaking, speaker marketing automation, selling your speaking, joining speakers associations, improving your communication skills, presentation training basics, and how to become a successful professional speaker.
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    47 mins
  • Pegine Echevarria: Working With Big Audiences And Big Stages – #145

    Pegine Echevarria: Working With Big Audiences And Big Stages – #145
    Apr 22 2022
    Working With Big Audiences And Big Stages – #145 Our guest this week is a Leadership Speaker, Best-selling author, Award-winning Businesswoman, an advisor to US Presidents and their task forces as well as Fortune 500 executives to be effective at engaging their people and stakeholders. She educates leaders and businesswomen on influencing, impacting, and inspiring others to increase profits productivity, and positivity. She coaches women CEOs, Admirals and Generals, College Presidents, and entrepreneurs on influence, impact, and presentation skills. Her expertise is on women leaders and women in business. She is the founder of Power Women Worldwide. Her newest book is “Called to Lead: Success Strategies for Women”. AVON and Real Leaders Magazine called Pegine one of the world’s top leadership motivational speakers.

    Questions:

    • Who have you spoken to?
    • What was the biggest size audience you spoke to
    • What was the scariest moment when speaking to a big audience. (hint falling from the stage and breaking my foot)

    Today she will share advice about working with big audiences and on big stages. How to keep the energy up, how to keep everyone engaged and how to use the stage. Everything you need to know about the big stage.
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    45 mins
  • Tony Morris: How To Get Instant Results For Your Speaking Business – #142

    Tony Morris: How To Get Instant Results For Your Speaking Business – #142
    Mar 31 2022
    Tony Morris: How To Get Instant Results For Your Speaking Business This episode is with my co-host, Maria Franzoni. Enjoy the episode. Our guest today is a conversation strategist and author of five books, and who works organizations and leaders to ask better questions and get better results. His first book coffee for closers was the number one best-selling book for telesales on Amazon. He brings actionable practical real-life techniques that can be implemented now and get instant results. We will warn that welcome Tony Morris.
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    38 mins
  • How I got my parents out of Ukraine with Kay Korsh – #143

    How I got my parents out of Ukraine with Kay Korsh – #143
    Mar 31 2022
    How I got my parents out of Ukraine with Kay Korsh – #143 I’m James Taylor and you’re listening to the speakers you podcast a show for aspiring and professional speakers. This episode is with my co-host, Maria Franzoni. Enjoy the episode. This week we’re going to do something different with the show. We’d like to introduce you to an inspiring story of someone who has helped her family and those supporting the civilians who are suffering through these very difficult times. In Ukraine. Now many of you know, our go-to Silas coach, but what you may not know is key is Ukrainian. He is going to share her firsthand experiences of getting her parents out of Ukraine to safety in the UK. And we’re also going to talk about what we can all do to help the people of Ukraine just now. So Kay has been helping people refine this style for nearly two decades and work with some amazing personalities along the way like actors. Lily Allen, sweet Lily Lily James Elizabeth Debakey, rezar met Ben Whishaw, we’re the one racing driver, Jenson Button and musician will, she founded mind over fashion in 2019. And her main priority is to tune into a client’s needs and to gently elevate their existing Style to make them feel comfortable and presentable. According to their brand and lifestyle. Her approach is candid and compassionate as we’re going to find out now please welcome Kay Korsh.
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    28 mins
  • How to Make Your Livestream And Video Look More Professional – #140

    How to Make Your Livestream And Video Look More Professional – #140
    Feb 24 2022

    How to Make Your Livestream And Video Look More Professional – #140

    Adrian Salisbury helps entrepreneurs and business owners around the world stand out (by looking more professional) on video. With a focus on Livestreaming, Adrian runs the official Ecamm Live training which has seen more than 1500 attend his highly popular boot camps in the past 2 years

    Questions:

    • What Is Ecamm Live?
    • What makes it different from other Live Streaming tools?
    • How hard is it to use?
    • Why should people be live streaming?
    • What can someone expect from your Ecamm Live Academy?

     
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    32 mins
  • Push the Limits of Your Speaking Business – #139

    Push the Limits of Your Speaking Business – #139
    Feb 17 2022
    Push the Limits of Your Speaking Business – #139

    Entertaining and unreservedly direct, our guest isn’t just a motivational speaker – he is a company turnaround specialist driving everyone from CEOs to schoolchildren to ignite excitement and action in their life.
    For more than 20 years, he has been on his quest to make you the best by sharing his techniques and tools to break through the boundaries we put up around us. His always animated and interactive presentations have inspired thousands of FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 delegates, school children, charities, and prison inmates, in groups of five to 5000 and all over the world, into taking positive strides in their work and personal life.
    No longer living the dress rehearsal of their life, his words whip up listeners into action; energized and passionate.

    Questions:

    • How long have you been speaking?
    • What is your speaking biz model?
    • How did you become speaker of the year from Vistage Ace Footdown and YPO?
    • Why do you specialize in CEO groups?
    • How many books have you written?
    • Why books can be a massive income producer
    • Why speakers are more concerned with testimonials than re-bookings
    • How to get rebooked even before the first event
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    36 mins
  • Chartwell Speakers Bureau

    Chartwell Speakers Bureau
    Feb 10 2022

    Our guest this week started in the speaking industry in 2012 and began as an agent handling the speaking for a range of motivational speakers from the world of sport, adventure, and military. In 2014, he relocated to Hong Kong to start the Chartwell Asia office. The majority of clients there were financial services firms sourcing experts to speak at their regional conferences. During his time in Asia, he got a lot of experience in “co-broking” with US-Based Agencies. In 2016 he returned to London and took over as Managing Director of Chartwell at that time. His role now mainly consists of handling “exclusive speakers” and managing the corporate speaking engagements for a range of high-profile economists, politicians, technology entrepreneurs & academics.

    Questions:

    • Tell us about Chartwell and what makes them USPs
    • How did you get into the Speaking Industry? What’s your background? 
    • What’s going on in the market?
    • What type of speaker would work with you / Chartwell? 
    • What advice would you give to a speaker looking to get booked by an agency like Chartwell?
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    25 mins