Transcript excerpt of a YouTube TEDx conversation featuring Lori Harder and another speaker reflecting on how giving a TEDx talk transformed their speaking careers. Speakers credit the TEDx talk with large increases in speaking fees, leads, book deals, and engagement opportunities, and emphasize relatability, vulnerability, and making 'magic out of the everyday' as key to effective talks.
There was Lori before the talk and then there was Lori after. And I was never, ever the same after that.
80 to 90% of my leads were from my 19 minute TEDx talk.
Had you ever given a talk? No, I never gave a speech in my life. Okay. I ended up getting six book deals offered to me, 40 speaking engagements.
My keynote fee.
Went from 5500.
To 30K per talk.
Wow. If you are a speaker, if you want to be a speaker, there's no faster way to like get your speaker reel, like a real speaker reel than having a TED Talk. You learn you have stories that you didn't think were stories. A lot of times it's the small things that are the big things like, that actually makes the best speakers.
The everyday.
Is some of the most.
Relatable content.
There is. And so making.
Magic out of the everyday, I think.
Is where the sauce actually lies.
For people and.
Being relatable.
And being vulnerable.
I love this so much because it is a move that will require so much from you, but you can't imagine what that's going to do for your career.
