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Bring Mel Morris to Your Audience

Bringing Self-Trust, Courage & Transformation

Bring Mel to Your Stage

Your audience doesn’t need more strategy, they need more self-belief

When Mel takes the stage, she doesn’t just talk about courage – she activates it. With 30 years of experience as a facilitator, coach, and advocate, Mel blends real-life storytelling, soulful truth, and a little fire to help audiences reconnect to themselves and find the confidence to lead, create, and live boldly.

Her signature message:

It’s Time to Trust Yourself!

Mel is available for keynotes, panels, workshops, retreats, and custom events. She brings warmth, humor, and grounded wisdom to every space. Inspiring audiences to trust themselves, lead authentically, and show up courageously in every part of life.

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Bring Mel to Your Podcast & Panels

Mel is a perfect podcast or panel guest

Mel brings warmth, humor, and deep insight to every conversation – blending personal storytelling, intuitive wisdom, and practical strategy that resonates with audiences across industries.

Favorite topics include:

  • Rebuilding self-trust after burnout, failure, or major life change
  • Building courage to live and lead authentically
  • Showing up and speaking truth in a world built by the patriarchy – especially as women and LGBTQ+ professionals
  • Leaning into your woo – using intuition and intuitive tools to make brave, grounded decisions
  • Respecting where you are while navigating change
  • Creating community instead of trying to do it all alone

Perfect for: podcasts, panels, and interviews focused on leadership, empowerment, authenticity, personal growth, or spirituality.

Past Partners

Signature Keynotes

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"Project: Becoming"
The Courage to Trust Yourself Again

You’re not broken – you’re becoming. This keynote brings Mel’s signature program to life, helping audiences recognize that growth isn’t about fixing themselves but remembering who they are. Through humor, truth-telling, and real-world reflection, Mel shows how rebuilding self-trust creates the foundation for courage, confidence, and next-level leadership.

  • Best For: Women’s conferences, personal growth events, leadership retreats, and mixed professional audiences seeking grounded inspiration.
"Burnout, Boundaries & Becoming"
Redefining Success for Women Who Do Too Much

This raw, empowering talk calls out the myth that success has to come with exhaustion. Mel helps high-achieving women unlearn the habits that lead to burnout and teaches how to create boundaries that honor energy, ambition, and authenticity. This is the permission slip to stop surviving and start leading on your own terms.

  • Best For: Corporate women’s initiatives, leadership summits, nonprofit professionals, educators, and high-achieving teams ready to reset the definition of success.
"The Season You’re In"
Using Nature’s Rhythms to Guide Personal Growth

This keynote invites audiences to step away from hustle culture and embrace the natural rhythm of becoming. Using the seasonal framework from Project: Becoming, Mel helps people honor where they are, find purpose in pauses, and move forward with balance and authenticity.

  • Best For: Wellness events, creative retreats, and personal or spiritual development spaces.
"Striving for Rejection"
Your Passion Needs Resistance to Grow

A motivational powerhouse talk that reframes rejection, failure, and fear as signs you’re on the right path. Mel teaches how to turn resistance into resilience, showing audiences that every “no” is an invitation to build strength, clarity, and courage. This talk is bold, funny, and unforgettable.

  • Best For: Entrepreneurs, creatives, business leaders, and professional growth events looking for inspiration and energy with depth.
Craft the perfect event for your audience

Customize Your Experience

Make It Interactive: Workshop Options

Want to go deeper? Every keynote can be expanded into a Half-Day Workshop Experience designed for teams and groups ready for hands-on learning. These immersive sessions include interactive exercises, guided reflection, and group dialogue – transforming inspiration into practical, actionable change.

Workshops are perfect for organizations that want to create brave spaces for growth, reflection, and leadership development.

Custom Talks & Collaborations

Every audience is unique, and Mel loves creating something tailor-made. Whether it’s an intimate team retreat, a university keynote, or a corporate leadership conference, she’ll work with you to design an experience that meets your goals and aligns with your audience’s needs.

If you have a theme, goal, or focus in mind, Mel will help you bring it to life.

Your Audience is Waiting for Mel’s Message

Audiences today are tired of information – they crave transformation.

Mel meets that need by helping people cut through the noise, reconnect with themselves, and take action that matters.

Your audience is ready – give them the message they need today.

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