The Speaker Springboard Podcast: Recent Episodes
Alfred Poor
Welcome to the Speaker Springboard Podcast, where corporate leaders, business executives, and other good public speakers come to become great speakers. Every week, you'll hear about practical tips and valuable resources that will help you get your message across, whether it's on stage or online.
Stephen Goldberg is the founder of Optimus Performance, a company that delivers highly effective training, coaching, and consulting to improve employee performance. He and his colleagues focus on leadership, team development, customer service, and sales. Stephen believes that the key to progress for business owners and company leaders is to know oneself first. He is a creative problem solver who seeks innovative ways to improve on the status quo.
In addition to his blog, he makes a generous collection of resources available for free on his website. You can get them here -- https://www.optimusperformance.ca/ -- under "Forms and Worksheets."
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This week, my guest is Randy Peyser of Author One Stop. She is a book coach and broker who edits or ghostwrites her clients’ books, and then helps them find agents and publishers to get a contract. She knows how to make your book stand out from the thousands and thousands of manuscripts that publishers receive every year. She can help you learn what’s hot and what’s not in your subject area, decide between traditional publishing and self-publishing, and even how to get killer quotes for your book cover even if you don’t know anyone famous!
Randy also is sharing an excellent guide with our listeners, called "Write the Right Book". It is filled with insightful exercises and valuable information to get your book project off on the right foot. You can read and download it here: https://www.authoronestop.com/write-the-right-book/.
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You’ve heard the saying, build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door? Well, it doesn’t work that way anymore. You have to get noticed first, and Jill Lublin is a master strategist at getting more visibility for your business. She’s an author, speaker, and consultant, and she teaches a virtual Publicity Crash Course. Her innovative influence marketing and publicity techniques really work, helping her clients move more mousetraps and increase their bottom line.
She's also offering listeners access to her free action guide, as well as an opportunity to have a free, live session with her. Go to https://publicitycrashcourse.com/freegift for details.
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Erin Pheil has a special understanding of the intersection between people and technology; she has a BA in Psychology and Master’s in Digital Media. Her own personal journey includes the founding of a successful web agency along with a three-year battle with pain and depression. Out of this grew her company, The MindFix Group, where she and her colleagues help leaders conquer the self-sabotage that can hold us all back. Her program helps clients eliminate mental barriers and see real, positive change in just 10 days. And she’s got the numbers to prove it!
On her website at https://mindfixgroup.com/podcast, you can sign up for her free newsletter filled with case studies and mini-trainings. You can also arrange for a free, one-on-one 15-minute call with Erin to discuss your situation or questions that you might have.
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Connie Pheiff is the founder and CEO of Talent Concierge, which is a celebrity business management agency. As a teenager, she was on the path to becoming a high school dropout, but she fought back to complete high school and eventually climbed her way to the CEO’s office. Over the years since, she has dealt with adversity, constantly having to start over and reinvent herself. But through it all, she has followed her passion to help others pursue their dreams. She founded Talent Concierge where she works with famous influencers and celebrities, as well as with entrepreneurs looking to rise to a new level of success, just as Connie has done for herself.
Connie offers her "Brand Activation 10x" online course for free to our listeners. You can register at https://connie-pheiff-s-school.teachable.com/p/brand-activation-10x.
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Jane Atkinson is the owner of Speaker Launcher. For more than 30 years, she’s been helping speakers catapult their careers to the next level. She’s the author of many books, including her latest: “Scaling Your Speaking Business – 10 Strategies for Earning More While Doing Less.” She focuses on proven action steps that lead to big fees, getting booked solid, and a speaking business that puts lifestyle first. She has helped celebrities, best-selling authors, and business experts. In short, she has the track record that shows she knows her stuff.
And she's willing to share what she knows. Her website, https://speakerlauncher.com, is packed with valuable information including her blog and her "Wealthy Speaker" podcast. She has great information for you, whether you're just getting started or are a seasoned speaker.
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Julie Hansen and I had a wonderful conversation about how to bring more energy and engagement to your virtual meetings... and why this is so important if you want to get your message across. She shares a lot of valuable tips and insights based on her experience.
Julie is the President of Performance Sales and Training. She’s an expert in helping sales professionals apply the principles of film and television to improve their connection and engagement with today’s busy buyers. And she knows what she’s talking about. In addition to being a video selling expert and author of three books, she is also a professional actor. She has appeared in more than 50 commercials, movies, and TV shows. Maybe you even saw her on HBO’s “Sex & The City”!
Julie has an excellent "7 Minute Warm-Up" that she is sharing for free with our listeners. You can find it at https://juliehansen.live/resources; scroll to the bottom of the page to find it.
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John Bates is the founder and CEO of Executive Speaking Success. He is an author, executive coach, and trainer who blew his first chance on the TED stage, but came back from the experience to become the coach for executives from major organizations including Johnson & Johnson, Boston Scientific, and NASA (including the astronauts). His mission is to bring out the awesome inside you, so that you can have the impact you want, in business and in life.
He is sharing two valuable documents that will help you find and craft your superhero origin story. You get them by subscribing to his free weekly mini-trainings. Go to https://executivespeakingsuccess.com/subscribe/ to get these free resources.
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Sam Richter is the CEO of SBR Worldwide, Know More. To put it bluntly, Sam knows sales. He’s the author of the best-selling book, “Take the Cold Out of Cold Calling.” Audiences agree that he knows his stuff; he has been named one of the top 50 Sales Keynote Speakers in the world. And his colleagues recognize that he’s a great speaker; the NSA inducted him into the National Speaker Hall of Fame, an honor that has been bestowed on fewer than 300 speakers. In spite of all his success, he also mentors individuals in his community and is an active volunteer with non-profit organizations.
He offers a free tip sheet on how to find the information you need about a prospect so that you can establish rapport right from the start. You'll find it at his website at https://samrichter.com.
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Jeff Cobb is the founder of Learning Revolution, a go-to resource for entrepreneurial experts who want to build a thriving online education and training business. Jeff describes himself as an "edupreneur" and he believes that we all need to keep learning throughout our lives. To that end, he has founded several successful education-focused businesses. He is also a speaker and a writer, with three books to his credit. His goal is to help professionals with their pursuit of personal and professional growth.
We discussed a wide range of topics including the barriers that can keep subject matter experts from delivering online courses and other training projects that can provide an additional source of revenues.
Jeff is making his Learning Revolutionary's Toolbox available to listeners of the Speaker Springboard Podcast. Go to https://learningrevolution.net/toolbox that will give you the practical information about platforms and tools that you'll need to get your project off the ground, as well as tips about marketing and outsourcing.
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Ari Meisel developed a chronic disease in his early 20s, which caused him to reexamine his life as an entrepreneur, as a business owner, and as a person. He now is dedicated to helping founders and executives make themselves replaceable. He shows them how to optimize, automate, and outsource all the parts of their business that they don’t enjoy, so they can spend more time doing what they like to do best. He’s done this for himself, spending most of his time with his family and pursuing his hobbies, including woodworking which is an activity that he and I both share.
In this interview, Ari offers free access to a Trello board that has lots of valuable resources for you. Just send an email to oao@lessdoing.com and just say "Tech Tools" to receive a link to the board. (You'll also find a ton of great resources on his website at https://lessdoing.com/resources/.)
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Debbie Allen is known as the World’s #1 Authority on Expert Positioning, which is a pretty good example of positioning right there! She works with speakers, coaches, and entrepreneurs to help them build an expert business model, and offers both group and personalized programs. She has a long experience as an entrepreneur herself. At the tender age of 19, she invested in her family’s car rental and mini-storage business. Ten years later, she headed off on her own and was a self-made millionaire just three years later. So when she works with entrepreneurs, she understands what they are experiencing and is able to visual results far into their future.
Debbie has generously offered her free 30-minute master class along with an expert positioning action guide that includes a business plan template and a checklist to help you start developing your own expert business model: https://debbie-allen.mykajabi.com/expert-positioning-strategy-call.
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David Jenyns, the founder and Chief Visionary Officer of SYSTEMology, a company that helps business leaders free themselves from their companies by creating systems that will handle the day-to-day operations. He did this for himself when his first child was born, and he realized that he wanted to spend more time with his family than with driving his successful business. And the lessons he learned from that process led to SYSTEMology, whose experts work with companies worldwide.
David has a free template to get you started on the path to freeing yourself from the minutia of your business operations. You can download it here: https://systemology.com/academy.
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Procrastination? Fear of success? Imposter syndrome? What gets in the way of your success? My guest this week is Nina Cooke, author of “Renegade Mindset for Unstoppable Success.” She’s a mindset coach for entrepreneurs, helping them breakthrough their limiting beliefs to achieve their business goals, to create more impact, and to make more money. Her superpower is her ability to dig deep and find the root cause for why they are struggling.
And she offers her Millionaire Mindset Scorecard on her website, https://www.ninacooke.co.uk/, that you can download for free. It's a powerful tool to help you examine your own limiting beliefs and identify the behaviors that can keep you stuck from moving forward.
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This week, my guest is John Lee Dumas, known to his friends and everyone else as JLD. He’s the host of Entrepreneurs on Fire and author of “The Common Path to Uncommon Success.” He has interviewed more than 3,000 entrepreneurs, including Seth Godin, Barbara Corcoran, and Tim Ferriss. He spent 8 years in the Army, tried law school, and worked in insurance, tech, and real estate before he launched his successful daily podcast where he delivers free, valuable, and consistent content. And I think he’s the only guest on the Speaker Springboard Podcast who has appeared in a Bollywood movie!
You can find outstanding content -- for free -- every day of the week on his podcast, "Entrepreneurs on Fire". Find it on your favorite podcast service, or click here.
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This week, my guest is Doug Thorpe, who is the Founder, Master Coach, and Advisor of Headway Exec. He’s had more than 40 years of success in the financial services, oil & gas, and healthcare industries. His passion is helping already successful executives and company owners to level up their leadership game. And he doesn’t aim low; his personal challenge for 2022 is to help 10,000 managers to become better bosses. That’s an impressive and ambitious goal!
Doug is sharing his Team Trust guidelines with our listeners. It's a six-step process that's spelled out in detail here: https://dougthorpe.com/teamtrust/
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To start the new year and a new season for this podcast, it is my great pleasure to be speaking with my magical friend, John Formica, the ex-Disney guy. As a keynote speaker, trainer, and coach for small business owners, John poses the question, “If Disney ran your business, what would it look like?” He knows first-hand what can happen when you put the customer experience as your top priority. He helps businesses and associations attract more customers and turn them into loyal customers for life. And at the same time, create a “whistle while you work” environment for your team.
We have a fun discussion that covers a lot of ground. John is also generously sharing three free training videos that you can find on his website: https://johnformica.com.
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This week, my guest is Marcia Reynolds, the President of Covisioning. She provides executive coaching and leadership development training on-line and in person around the globe. She has presented in 43 countries to date, and the number is growing. She is a founding member and former president of the International Coach Federation, and Global Gurus ranks her as the #4 coach worldwide. She not only helps leaders become better coaches, but also helps organizations shift to a culture of coaching.
Marcia has generously shared a "hidden" page on her website that is filled with valuable resources, including free videos and exercises to help you become a better coach and communicator. Here's the link: https://covisioning.com/coach-the-person-resources/
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Donald Kelly is the Chief Sales Evangelist and the host of The Sales Evangelist Podcast. He focuses on helping sales professionals create systems that work. But he didn’t start out as a sales expert; he started off selling mangoes, cookies, and candy growing up in Jamaica. Now he has worked with more than 100 companies, helping them close more deals every month.
He is also making his book "The Small Business Sales Transformation Guide" available for free to listeners of this podcast at https://thesalesevangelist.com/springboard. It has 7 simple things that you must do to experience consistent sales growth.
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Adam Houlahan is the founder and CEO of Prominence Global. He’s a speaker and a book author, as well as an expert on LinkedIn. He knows how to harness the global power of LinkedIn to increase your influence in your industry. He’s a firm believer in being authentic and courageous in your social media strategies. But more than just growing his business, Adam is focused on doing good in the world. As a result, he has a passion for philanthropy and he works with the Global Giving Initiative to make a positive impact on the lives of people around the world.
And Adam is giving our audience free access to his LinkedIn Productivity Assessment, covering the four components required for a "Sage" profile on LinkedIn. Click here to get customized results right away: https://assessment.prominence.global/linkedin-productivity.
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Loren Fogelman is the "Price and Profit Coach" who works with accounting professionals get paid what their worth. Her advice is also relevant to just about any consultant, coach, or solopreneur who wants to break out of the rut of simply trading time for money. We discuss the difficulties of knowing your true value, and the importance of communicating that to current and prospective clients.
Loren has been recognized by HubSpot as one of the world’s top 22 business coaches each year for more than ten years. She has been a speaker at major conferences, including Inbound, which is one of the most popular marketing events for entrepreneurs. Her passion is to empower her clients to double their revenues by working half the time through strategic pricing and effective sales techniques. And she is offering our listeners her detailed "10 Steps to Package and Price Your Services," which you can download for free at https://www.businesssuccesssolution.com/value/.
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Howie Jacobson is the Director of Coaching at Bregman Partners where he is an executive coach for clients ranging from startup founders to established and rising Fortune 100 leaders. He is the author of “Adwords for Dummies” as well as bunch of other titles, and his writing has appeared in Fast Company and the Harvard Business Review.
His mission includes helping kind and generous people grow their capability and scale their influence, sharing the joys of a healthy life, and reintroducing people to their most authentic, best selves.
And he is offering our listeners a free, three-part online leadership assessment tool that will help you understand how effective you are at helping others around you change. You can access it here: https://bregmanpartners.com/
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Michael Krigsman is the founder and host of the video series, CxO Talk. He has interviewed almost 1,000 top executives from major technology companies, including IBM, Adobe, Intel, HP, Aetna, Netflix, UPS, Zillow, among many more. Michael is also a columnist for ZDNet, writing about management and leadership at the enterprise level. Michael and I discuss how most tech companies -- and everyone else in general -- tend to focus on the features of their products and services, rather than making their customers' stories central to their message. Be sure to check out his interviews, which are available online for free at https://CxOTalk.com.
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Libby Gill is an executive coach, a leadership expert, and an award-winning author. She guides leaders from around the world to inspire purpose and drive performance. In her career, she's been a talking Christmas tree and a hand model for cat food commercials, as well as a communications executive for Sony, Universal, and Turner Broadcasting. Her latest book is "Leadership Reckoning." In this episode, we discuss a wide range of leadership topics, including how important it can be to have a support system of one sort or another to help you deal with problems and to create an accountability relationship to help you get things done. Along these lines, she has invited listeners to join one of her 90-minute "writing sprints" in which she will help you create your writing project, whether it's fiction or marketing or something else. To join in, simply email her at libby@libbygill.com and ask about the next session.
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What does magic have to do with management? A lot, as it turns out! My guest is professional magician and corporate entertainer Dennis Kyriakos. We discuss a range of topics, such as how you can't look at people -- either magicians or employees -- as interchangeable parts. Their individual skill sets and experiences play a large part in their value to their employers. And we talk about honesty and respect, and how it's expected that magicians will lie to you, but why it's not okay for managers to do that. And Dennis also invites listeners to his monthly Wonder Intervals, held online the last Friday of every month at https://www.conjuringwonder.com/theintervals.
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My guest this week is Clint Pulver, CEO of CRP Leadership. In addition to being an expert on employee retention, he is also an Emmy Award winning drummer! In our conversation, we talk about the impact of the COVID pandemic on the workplace, what business owners and managers have done -- right and wrong -- to help keep employees through these difficult times, and how to create an environment where people want to come to work. He shares his three key questions that every manager should ask their best workers in order to help keep them. He also is giving away a free chapter from his latest book, "I Love It Here: How great leaders create organizations their people never want to leave." You can download the free chapter here: https://clintpulver.com/.
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It is far easier to make a second sale to an existing customer than it is to make a first sale to a new one. That's why Joey Coleman is so focused on the customer experience. He's the Chief Experience Composer with Design Symphony and the author of the #2 Wall Street Journal bestseller "Never Lose a Customer Again." He has honed is persuasion skills as a criminal defense attorney and by doing communications for the White House. And he's this week's guest on the Speaker Springboard Podcast. Listen to find out how you can get access to his free "First 100 Days Implementation Kit" available on his website at https://joeycolemen.com.
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Tracy Goodwin is the owner of Captivate the Room, and she helps professionals use their voices more effectively to communicate and persuade. Her program, the Psychology of Voice, reveals the hidden strengths and weaknesses in your voice and the impact they can have on the listener. She built her skills through her experiences as an award-winning actor and director, and now focuses her talents on helping professionals increase their confidence and make better connections in less time. We discuss how some people hide their voices behind masks, and how to you can reveal your authentic voice. She also has a generous offer for our listeners; you can get her three-video series on "The Voice Formula" for free at https://captivatetheroom.com/voiceformula/.
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My friend, colleague, and breakfast buddy David Newman, CSP, is the founder of Do It Marketing and he has helped countless speakers, coaches, and entrepreneurs over the years. He is a member of the NSA Million Dollar Speakers Group and is the author of many best-selling books including "Do It! 77 Instant-Action Ideas to Market, Monetize, and Maximize Your Expertise." In this episode, we talk about marketing and the many mistakes that people make. One of the biggest is falling into the "numbers game" trap, where you waste your time in the soul-crushing pursuit of cold calls. He offers a simple alternative that is way more effective. And he also offers listeners a free copy of his "Do It! Marketing Manifesto" that you can download for free at https://doitmarketing.com/manifesto.
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John Jantsch has helped thousands of small and medium businesses with his Duct Tape Market program. This is a systematic approach to marketing that is both practical and successful. He is the author of many best-selling books, and has a new book launching next week: The Ultimate Marketing Engine. In this episode, he explains not just what you need to do to have effective marketing, but also explains some of the things not to do. And he has a generous offer for listeners who pre-order his book at https://theultimatemarketingengine.com/. If you order before the launch, you will also get free access to his companion online course.
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My guest this week is Michael Davis who is an expert at helping others find and hone their stories. As most of you already know, stories make your content stickier and help you engage with your audience faster and more effectively. In addition to being a successful speaker in his own right, Michael has trained business leaders, sales professionals, and TEDx speakers in how to create compelling stories. In this interview, he offers free tips that can make you a better storyteller; you can sign up at https://52storytellingtips.com.
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Jordan Howard is the Chief Strategist with Digital ONDA. The company develops strategies and builds websites for keynote speakers and thought leaders. Not only is Jordan very smart and creative, he also has the practical skills to apply his concepts so that you get results. And if you listen to the podcast, you'll find that he has offered to provide a five-minute video review of your speaker website, if you are one of the first 20 listeners to take him up on this generous offer. Send him an email at jordan@digitalonda.com.
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Like most people, you have probably suffered through more than a few awful PowerPoint presentations. Ellen Finkelstein is an expert at helping speakers create clear, powerful, and persuasive presentations. Microsoft has designated her a PowerPoint MVP – a Most Valuable Professional. And she’s of only 18 MVPs in the U.S. In this episode, Ellen explains how you can avoid the dreaded "Death by PowerPoint" by following her "Tell and Show" method for creating compelling programs. She has a free training video called "13 Techniques That Make Designing Your Slides Easy" that is available at https://ellenhelps.me/techniques.
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Just about every speaker is familiar with stress. Whether it's preparing a program, stepping out on stage, or seeing the camera go live in a virtual event, stress comes with the territory. Misty Rose Gold is an author, speaker, and international success coach. She is passionate about helping entrepreneurs and high-level leaders reduce their stress levels. She offers simple and effective ways to help you manage your stress, emotions, and mindset. She offers three free videos on her website to help you reduce stress, manage your emotions, and strengthen your mindset: https://www.mistyrosegold.com/.
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Emma Hawker is the Founder and CEO of ALTAFY (https://www.altafy.com/), an online registry for speakers and meeting planners. The company's goal is to create more diversity on stages by helping meeting organizers find speakers and subject-matter experts from all over the world for both on-site and virtual events. She's had more than 13 years' experience with running B2B events, and has practical insights about exactly what event planners are looking for when they seeking new speakers for their programs.
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My good friend and colleague Ant Pruitt is a host, producer, and technical director with the popular TWiT.tv. He's a former enterprise IT support pro who decided to pursue his interests in the arts and content creation. He is an accomplished photographer and videographer, as you'll find out in his two podcasts: Hands-On Photography and Hands-On Tech. And he often appears on Alex Lindsay's podcast. Ant knows what it takes to create engaging content, and he shares his insights into how your passion is the key to a memorable presentation.
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