Booked & Paid Speaker Blueprint Podcast

Sean Douglas

This is the only podcast to learn the roadmap to paid speaking engagements. These episodes are your guide to transforming your passion for public speaking into a thriving, profitable business. If you're ready to land consistent paid gigs, from local gigs to dream gigs, deliver your message with confidence, and get paid what you're truly worth, you're in the right place. Each week, we'll explore proven strategies, industry secrets, and inspiring stories to help you level up your speaking game. Whether you're just starting out or a seasoned professional, or maybe looking to dominate the stage, this podcast is your ultimate roadmap to success. Get ready to step onto bigger stages, command larger audiences, and unlock new levels of success. Your voice deserves to be heard. Your story is worth every penny, and this is your blueprint for making it happen. Lean in and let's get you booked & paid to speak!

  1. S5 E1: Frame of Mind Coaching For Leaders with Kim Ades

    EPISODE 1

    S5 E1: Frame of Mind Coaching For Leaders with Kim Ades

    Are you a coach or in the coaching industry? Are you a leader in your industry and ready for the next level? Are you tired of being passed over for opportunities and want to stand in front of the competition? In this episode, Kim Ades talks about how to properly create, launch, and monetize a thriving coaching business. She also discusses the biggest mistakes that new coaches make when building their business, and you'll never guess what she learned in the process. Kim Ades (pronounced add-iss) is the President and Founder of Frame of Mind Coaching® and JournalEngine®. Recognized as a pioneer in the field of leadership coaching and thought mastery, Kim uses her unique philosophy and direct coaching style to help leaders focus their thinking to achieve extraordinary results. Author, speaker, entrepreneur, coach, and mom of five, Kim's claim to fame is teaching her powerful coaching process to other coaches, leaders, executives, and entrepreneurs worldwide. Kim has been a featured speaker for many organizations including Microsoft, ICF, and SHRM Links: https://frameofmindcoaching.com/speaking/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVgdsUHCMSY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK33r-ed9Ws https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzI_5UCQxoQ   Want to get booked & paid to speak consistently? Are you tired of searching for hours, or even days, with no hope of booking a paid gig? Download the No BS No Fluff Guide To Getting Booked & Paid To Speak and start booking paid gigs, filling up your calendar, and living the dream you've always wannted. Downloadthe guide and get booked & paid to speak here

    31 min
  2. FINAL SEASON, EP2: The Garage Sale Millionaire's Guide To Buying, Selling, and Flipping with Aaron LaPedis

    EPISODE 4

    FINAL SEASON, EP2: The Garage Sale Millionaire's Guide To Buying, Selling, and Flipping with Aaron LaPedis

    Do you have a side hustle? Have you ever attended an auction? An estate sale? A garage sale? Flea Market? Did you know there is a huge ever-growing market from garage sales, estate sales, storage auctions, and then flipping them online or at flea markets, or even at your own garage sales? Aaron LaPedis and I discuss our storasge auction careers, finds, and give our best tips in this market. We talk about how to find the autions or garage sales, how to know what each item is worth, and how to become a garage sale millionaire, flipping your treasures. Aaron LaPedis is the founder of Fascination St Fine Art, an award-winning gallery that was established in 1991 and showcases a variety contemporary art. He is also the author of several books: "The Garage Sale Millionaire", a guide to finding and selling valuable items, and "A Boy Named Penguin", a children's book series inspired by his son who has Autism. He has been a columnist for The Denver Post, a host on National PBS for 8 years, and various media outlets as an expert on art collecting, valuation, and authentication. Aaron has helped many national and international clients on purchasing art collections and also served as an expert witness for insurance companies, divorce attorneys and the FBI. Check out Aaron's links below: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaronlapedis/ https://www.facebook.com/thegaragesalemillionaire https://www.instagram.com/thegaragesalemillionaire/ https://www.youtube.com/@thegaragesalemillionaire https://www.thegaragesalemillionaire.com     Are you struggling to get booked to speak? Do you want to be a consistently booked & paid speaker? Would you like to be speaking over 20-25 times a year? This is the guide for you: https://bit.ly/getbookedtospeakguide. If you follow this guide, you are guaranteed to increase your podcast bookings, conference bookings, and break into the media.

    39 min
  3. FINAL SEASON, FINAL EPISODE: Digital Marketing Philosophy For Creatives with Gresham Harkless

    EPISODE 5

    FINAL SEASON, FINAL EPISODE: Digital Marketing Philosophy For Creatives with Gresham Harkless

    This is the FINAL episode of our show, Create Launch Monetize. What a journey it has been over the last 5 years! This show was about creation, launch, and monetization of anything and everything, and we laid out the processes and strategies to do this correctly. We talk about everything from podcasts, real estate, business category design, and ALL in between. Now, we are shifting this show in to the Booked & Paid Speaker Blueprint. I wil discuss the traps speakers fall into, how to get booked & paid to speak, and how to build a speaker business that gets you booked consistently. If you are a speaker, this show is for YOU! Stay tuned for the rebrand and for the upcoming episodes of the NEW show. Our last and final guest on Create Launch Monetize is my friend Gresham Harkless. Gresh is the founder of Blue 16 Media, CBNation, and BlueStar Franchise. Blue16 Media uses media & technology to change lives. These media properties include Blue 16 Marketing-a digital marketing agency providing digital marketing services including web design, website support & SEO services. CBNation consists of media properties (blogs, podcasts and videos) helping the business community succeed. Central to Blue 16's marketing philosophy is that You Are a Media Company (He started his first at the age of 10 in the form of a family paper that he sold) and that every organization is in the media business and can strategically leverage marketing tools, platforms, and "ingredients" to reach their goals. Blue Star Franchise helps connect first-time and seasoned entrepreneurs, CEOs, and business owners with their ideal franchises. Gresh is a proud graduate of Howard University & Georgetown University. He was selected in 2022 as a 50+ Black Marketer on the Rise in the Influencer & Media Innovators category. He also is a graduate of the 2020 Leadership Center for Excellence Young Professionals Program in 2016, and he was recognized for being 40 Under 40 in Northern Virginia in 2022 and Alexandria in 2020. He has recorded over 1600 podcast episodes of the I AM CEO Podcast and shared the 100+ business lessons he has learned from recording the episodes in the I AM CEO Handbook Volume 3. Connect with Gresham here: https://iamgresh.com/#social   Do you want to be a consistently booked & paid speaker? This guide will break it down step by step how to become a bookable speaker, where to find the gigs, and how to close them. This guide is guaranteed to add paid gigs to your schedule. I created this guide for speakers who are struggling to get booked. Get the guide here and transform your speaker business: https://bit.ly/getbookedtospeakguide

    42 min
4.4
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This is the only podcast to learn the roadmap to paid speaking engagements. These episodes are your guide to transforming your passion for public speaking into a thriving, profitable business. If you're ready to land consistent paid gigs, from local gigs to dream gigs, deliver your message with confidence, and get paid what you're truly worth, you're in the right place. Each week, we'll explore proven strategies, industry secrets, and inspiring stories to help you level up your speaking game. Whether you're just starting out or a seasoned professional, or maybe looking to dominate the stage, this podcast is your ultimate roadmap to success. Get ready to step onto bigger stages, command larger audiences, and unlock new levels of success. Your voice deserves to be heard. Your story is worth every penny, and this is your blueprint for making it happen. Lean in and let's get you booked & paid to speak!