Public speaking is an art, requiring a special blend of skill, talent, and charisma. It also necessitates an understanding of audiences, honing messages for maximum impact, and being able to command a stage. In today’s digital age, these abilities can catapult careers, build brands, and incite social change. The National Speakers Association (NSA) is a…
Public speaking is an art, requiring a special blend of skill, talent, and charisma. It also necessitates an understanding of audiences, honing messages for maximum impact, and being able to command a stage.
In today’s digital age, these abilities can catapult careers, build brands, and incite social change. The National Speakers Association (NSA) is a pivotal hub in this landscape, providing platforms and resources for speakers to excel. The organization focuses on innovation and out-of-the-box thinking, reflecting the dynamic nature of the craft. The NSA’s handpicked speakers, therefore, are trailblazers setting new standards in communication and influence.
This episode of the CoachYu Show focuses on Jacob Hastings from Blitzmetrics and Jamie Nolan, CEO of the National Speakers Association (NSA). They discuss the NSA’s role in aiding its members to enhance their speaking businesses and skills.
The NSA, representing 2,200 national and 20 international members, focuses on speaker training, coaching, and consulting. Guest speakers for NSA events are selected based on their success in building their speaking businesses. They are expected to share insights with NSA members to help them improve their businesses or public speaking skills.
Each conference has a theme, and speakers are chosen accordingly. Jamie’s advice for aspiring professional speakers is to join the NSA for access to experienced mentors, networking opportunities, and practical advice on professional speaking and business building.
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It's Jacob here. Dennis behind the camera. We're sitting here. We've been in San Antonio since last night. If you can check out the beautiful Terrence view. If is our VIP section with only some limited speakers and people from the NSA session this weekend. So if you're interested in any content, and we'll be rocking our session with TikTok in sixty seconds tomorrow, right in the session right before noon. Have to come check us out. Hey, guys. It's Jacob here with blitzmetrics. I have the awesome opportunity to speak with Jamie, the CEO of the NSA, the National Speaker Association not only is is she the CEO, but she runs all the ideas behind it and is the main lady to talk to if you're interested in public speaking. I'm glad you clarified the National Speakers Association because a lot of people here in NSA and they think National Security Agency. Right. So yeah. Oh, that's good. Glad we got that clarification. The way. So, Jacob, talk to people a little bit about what you do and say, how you how you pick the guest speakers for your events? Yeah. Great. So NSA, national speaker association, we represent about twenty two hundred members nationally, and twenty members internationally, and help them build their speaking business and become better at the craft of speaking. Okay. And so we help them focus on speaky speaker author training coaching consulting is what we refer to it as. Okay. And the way we pick speakers is we try to find people that are that have done really well at building their own speaking author training coaching consulting business -- Sure. -- that can come share with our members what they can do to help. Go to the next level with their own businesses or in the craft of speaking. Okay. And so as you see nowadays, a lot of people have number one sellers or maybe their popular books or they've done this accomplishment. How do you kind of negotiate and find, hey, this person does have this, but they might not be the right person or how say, hey, they have a number one seller. Let's look into it further and see how do you kinda decide what factors go into deciding what the main kinda guidelines for the speakers are. Yeah. Well, usually with every conference, we have a theme of what do we wanna focus on. So for example, Thrive, the conference that you're here for. It's really we're really looking at innovation and out of the box thinking and different ways of doing things. Okay. And so what we did then, and we have great volunteer chairs. From within the membership. And so Mark Levy, who helped plan this program, said, here are people I know that are doing cool, different innovative things that our members need to know about. And so that's how we start to find the speakers. And then we meet with them, we talk to them, and we learn What's your story? What will our members learn from you? And so why should other speakers want to learn from you? And that's how we go through the selection process. Okay. Cool. So final last question here, we'll wrap things up. What's say, what's your number one piece of advice or kind of let's say, number one piece of advice for people who wanna be a national a national speakers association member or someone that's looking to be a professional speaker. Yeah. Absolutely. If you are even thinking about being a professional speaker, joining the NSA is a is the place to be. You will have access to very experienced people who will be great coaches and mentors. You will have access to people that will help you with connections of meeting other people. You will be able to learn all kinds of tangible takeaways on how to become a professional speaker, build your speaking business. It is an incredible community of professionals. Awesome. Well, thank you so much for me. It's great to meet you. Yes, ma'am. Thanks for having me. Thanks, guys.
