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Mark Leruste

Mark Leruste

Inspirational keynote speaker, leadership communication expert, bestselling author of "Glow in the Dark," and founder/CEO of StoryCast®, teaching business leaders to harness personal storytelling.

Jul 14, 2026

2:40
Mm-hmm
2:41
... uh, something like that.
2:41
And he reached out to me and he said, um, "Look, I've been following your work.
2:45
Um, I wanna do more of this speaking.
2:48
I, I, I'm, I'm doing more facilitation workshops, training, that kind of stuff, but I know I could be connecting more with my audience and somehow sometimes it doesn't land as well as I would hope it would.
2:58
Do you think you can help out?" And I was like, "Yeah.
3:00
Um, I've got this program called Own Your Story program.

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19:31
... put it on the stage and on the page?
0:44
So could you take us back to when it was you were getting consistently paid for speaking, but maybe at the lower fees? Whenabouts was that and what was that like?
0:54
Okay.
0:56
Buckle up, people.
0:57
Story time.
0:58
Uncle Mark's in the house.
1:02
Okay, well, first of all, I need to say a few things, caveat this conversation, before people figure out if it's worth spending their time listening or watching us.
1:11
If you are looking for quick hacks, and if you're looking for how to become a six-figure speaker in six weeks or six days...

9 MINS LATER

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considering you thought you weren't getting paid at all.

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