She had this dream for 6 years. This weekend, it happened! 🎉

Hi Reader,

This weekend, my family and I flew to Philadelphia to watch my client Priyanka Venugopal, MD step onto the TEDx stage — a dream she'd had for six years.

For a long time, Priyanka didn't know where to start. She figured TEDx was for other people... the ones with the big platforms, the ones who already had celebrity status.

Then she asked her friend Amna Shabbir, MD one simple question: how did you get your TEDx talk? Amna referred her to me for coaching.

That's the part I don't think gets talked about enough — the power of getting clients real results, so that the next dream chaser doesn't have to go searching. She just asked someone she trusted who'd already been there. One talk led to the next. One referral turned a dream into reality for another person.

Watching Priyanka walk out under those lights this weekend took me back to my own TEDx stage in Nottinghamshire, England. I shared the stage with other speakers that day, but two weren't ready, and when it came time to deliver, they froze and forgot their lines.

Imagine going through six months of prep, only to have your talk never published. All that work, and the world never heard it!

I remember standing backstage thinking: I wasn't going to let that happen to anyone I worked with. I wanted my clients to have their messages heard by the world, and I went on a mission to help them do it.

So I'll ask you what I've been asking myself since that flight home: is a TEDx talk on your list for 2027? Because 2027 will be here before you know it.

Why not be the person who finally goes after it, instead of the person still saying maybe someday? Let's make next year the year you cross TEDx off your bucket list and onto your "made it" list.

PS. Check out her latest Substack article detailing her story.

Read on Substack