The Speaker Lab Podcast

Dan Irvin

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Booking Overview

This show teaches speakers how to get booked and paid consistently, with practical tactics for landing gigs, building industry relationships, and negotiating higher fees. Episodes highlight real speaker playbooks and strategies you can apply to your own speaking business right away.

Metrics

Episodes: 639

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 10k-100k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

YouTube: 10.9k subscribers

Instagram: 68.0k followers

Contact Information

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Host

Dan Irvin - CEO of The Speaker Lab, hosts episodes that share business tactics, speaking tips, and insider strategies for building a consistent paid speaking career. In recent episodes he leads “Alumni Spotlig...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Speakers/consultants with demonstrable success or teachable learnings in getting booked and paid (e.g., landed paid keynote/workshop/webinar deals, increased fees, built a speaking-to-consulting pipeline). Likely also includes emerging speakers with momentum toward first paid gigs and concrete processes they used.
Required Achievements:  
Booked paid speaking engagements (keynotes, workshops, webinars), Generated leads/consulting revenue from keynote appearances, Improved speaking fee outcomes through negotiation or positioning, Successfully converted networking or conference activity into paid opportunities

Recent Guest Discussions

Michael Hidalgo - How He Landed A Highest-paid Gig Off A Tailored Pitch And Follow-up Value; Using A Keynote To Generate Consulting Leads; Follow-up Without Chasing; Speaking-to-consulting Pipeline Strategy.

Dr. David Chastain - Turning Free Talks And Connections Into Paid Speaking Gigs; Using Relationships Over Cold Outreach; How He Reworked Pitch Framing And Retitled Talks; Converting Conference Opportunities Into Paid Webinars And Workshops.

Chris Jackson - Overcoming Perfectionism And Momentum Barriers; Niche Clarity Via Intake; Using AI For Brainstorming; Learning From Feedback; Getting Started With Early Paid Speaking Experiences.

Recent Topics

Public Speaking, Speaker Fees, Bookings, Negotiation, Business Tactics

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
The Speaker Lab Podcast
:

Value Over Volume: Why the Best Speakers Lead by Giving with Michael Hidalgo

July 09, 2026

"When you're late, you tell people you don't care. I didn't agree with it at the moment. But then I started really just disciplining myself. And it is hard work for me every single day to be early."Welcome back to The Speaker Lab Podcast! In this Alumni Spotlight episode, host Dan Irvin brings on Michael Hidalgo — a keynote speaker who helps teams actually talk to each other. His core idea is deceptively simple: words are vehicles, and what the receiver unpacks may not be what you loaded them...

How to Turn Free Talks Into Paid Speaking Gigs with Dr. David Chastain

July 02, 2026

"I didn't get paid to go to Seattle, but I made a good connection there that I will be paid for."Welcome back to The Speaker Lab Podcast! In this Alumni Spotlight episode, host Dan Irvin sits down with Dr. David Chastain, a speaker who works at an intersection most people are afraid to even name out loud: grief and addiction, and the way the two are wound together. Grief can delay recovery, and it can trigger relapse years into sobriety — and David speaks on it from both professional expertis...

The Ugly Start: Why Momentum Beats Perfection with Chris Jackson

June 25, 2026

"It's never gonna be right. It's gonna be good enough to get started. You have enough to get started — just get started."Welcome back to The Speaker Lab Podcast! In this Alumni Spotlight episode, host Dan Irvin sits down with Chris Jackson — a speaker and consultant building his business from the foundation up, getting ready to land his first paid gig in this chapter of his career. And the message he's building on is one every listener needs to feel, not just nod along to: momentum, breaking ...

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