Since 1997, Steve Siebold, CSP, CFEd has helped Fortune 100 companies increase sales by $1.3 billion USD through his flagship training program, Mental Toughness University.
Siebold has delivered $16 million in keynote speeches at National and International Conventions for companies such as Johnson & Johnson, Ingersoll-Rand, Caterpillar, Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, Toyota, Chrysler-Fiat, Transamerica and hundreds of others. Siebold’s 12 books have sold over 1.6 million copies, including the #1 selling book of 2020 on Personal Finance, How Money Works, with co-author Tom Mathews. Siebold’s books have been translated into 7 languages.
He’s a former professional tennis player and national coach. His sports clients include Andre Agassi, the Boston Celtics, Miami Marlins and Ohio State Buckeyes.
As the CEO of Siebold Success Network, Steve oversees a team of 118 inside and outside salespeople, which gives him unique insights on how to build a mentally tough sales team.
Steve’s work has been featured on every major television network in the United States and Canada, and his interviews and articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Forbes, USA Today and hundreds of other publications around the world.
As a professional speaker, Steve ranks among the top 1% of income earners worldwide. He is the former chairman of the National Speakers Association’s Million-Dollar Speaker Group.
As a professional speaker, Steve ranks among the top 1% of income earners worldwide.
Steve, what a speaker loves and is passionate about is the hottest topic, but I would challenge your blog viewers further to think about who would listen to them speak about what they love and how to package and market what they love in a way that people will pay for it. To further your blog example, speaking about sea planes could be packaged to the airline industry.
Motivational speaking on self discovery and growth. Also enjoy bringing passion and consensus to groups (management and teams) eg: Customer Service and Sales… in one word “Balance”. 🙂 This is my Passion.
Hi Steve
I agree with Colin its a matter of how to package your passion sometimes (if its not the main theme of your speech that is) and i order to support a bigger perhaps more important theme your passion can be used to add more credibility to yourself as an authority and lend to your platform presence.
For instance if your passion is meeting great achievers or have had the opportunity to rub shoulders with personalities such as Sir Edmund Hilary or Gina Rinehart you could use them or their quotes to lend credibility to your speakers platform.
Thanks Steve for your thoughts on passion helps us to dig deeper within ourselves.
Fascinating blog and quite ironic, considering that I’ve been “preachin’ from my soapbox” about my passionate topic for 13 SOLID YEARS now…and not ONE PERSON has jumped on the bandwagon. I have a message that is so completely DIFFERENT than what anyone else is talking about…a message that has the power to transform the Average Joe into an Exceptional Joe…albeit, controversial to one’s core values and beliefs…
For lack of sounding like an infomercial, what if I could show you how to dramatically change your life with a one-time $1,500 “investment”–all of which you’d recoup inside 3 months time…but your life would forever be on a path to utopia?
Too good to be true? Hardly. I’ve been living my message since 2000. My message has survived 3 presidents, 3 foreclosures, 2 charge-offs, and a Chapter 7. And I’m doing it all–working “normal jobs”–on a $30K income…working only 3 days a week.
Who wouldn’t want more info on this?!?
A few weeks ago I co-chaired a day-long retreat in Delray Beach, Florida for men and women called “Design Your Destiny: Changes through Choices.”
It began with four speakers, followed by a panel discussion with the audience questioning the speakers.
Each speaker talked about a key obstacle or challenge and how they got past it and reached success. Some successes were regaining good health, changing careers midlife, daring to begin a business, and going from no job to a fabulous job.
Only one of the four was a professional speaker, but I think the other three have the potential. They were all able to discuss what mattered to them in an inspiring, motivational way. And they fielded the questions brilliantly as well.
I agree, the passion for and in the topic is crucial.
Interesting point, Steve.
Passion is absolutely required – because as a professional speaker, you’ll be living that topic for the rest of your life! And if you ain’t passionate about it, it’s going to be a difficult slog!
Commander Wiz…
“The Master in the Are of Living” by James Michener…..look it up.
“Am I working or playing?” The answer to that question is the same for those living in their passion.
my passion from 2003 is to see women pick themselves up after a life of abuse
this somthing i have in my belly, i guess this will be under empowerment i need feed back please.
Steve,
You’ve hit the nail on the head! The hottest topic is the one you are living your life to share with others. I loved the Charles Wesley story. Great preachers of old and today consistently speak with passion for their topic.
Thanks for the great vlog post!
I must be missing something here. I’ve been speaking professionally since 1979 and have found the the “Hottest” Speaking Topics seem to be a determination of decision-makers in the current marketplace who sign the checks. Over the years I’ve noticed that Hot topics seem to change based on a variety of factors… Economy, media trends, high-profile books, etc.
It would be great if what you were passionate about coincided with a current hot topic. Unless you have media star power your choice in topics of current interest may be an important part of the equation.
I was really hoping… expecting a more relevant answer than “Passionate”. And yes, I too knew Bill Gove. But during Bill’s day there was not the multitude of self-proclaimed experts as there are today. A very different arena… But then, I could be wrong.
Well, the question is do you love what you do enough to make a difference in someone’s life, will you make their life better before they knew you? It really has to come from your heart no matter what topic is used, you have to make it real enough that a transformation will happen. What makes a story unique? That you yourself have lived it and that your able to show forth your testimony. Just be real! tell the truth.