Michelle Poler is a Latina-Jewish entrepreneur, brand strategist, author, and professional keynote speaker. She created the project 100 Days Without Fear and founded Hello Fears, a movement that has reached over 70 million people worldwide.
Today, her work as an author, digital educator, and social influencer continues to amplify her impact, helping audiences turn fears into opportunities, comfort into growth, and ultimately go from being one more to becoming one of a kind. Michelle’s bestselling books have been translated into seven languages and distributed on four continents: Hello, Fears: Crush Your Comfort Zone and Become Who You’re Meant to Be and The Hello, Fears Challenge: A 100-Day Journal for Self-Discovery.
She has been invited to speak at The Global Leadership Summit, Google, P&G, ESPN, TEDx, Netflix, Microsoft, Meta, among many others, and her work has been featured in and on The TODAY Show, Forbes, CBS, CNN, Buzzfeed, Mashable, and the Huffington Post just to name a few.
Michelle holds a master’s degree in Branding from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Early in her career, she worked as an Art Director for brands like Hershey’s, Wendy’s, AT&T, and Revlon.
When Michelle is not flying, speaking, or indulging in culinary experiences worldwide, you’ll find her drinking matcha at home in Miami, and living fully with her husband, Adam, and their son, Noah.
A talk that will change your audience’s perception of fear, and encourage them to choose growth over comfort.
Michelle’s humorous, refreshing and inspiring speaking style has been captivating audiences across the globe. With authentic storytelling, engaging visuals and her 100 Days Without Fear experience, Michelle will show your audience how to challenge their comfort zone to tap into their full potential.
Key Benefits:
- Identifying and capitalizing on growth opportunities
- Thrive during uncertainty and embracing change
- Redefining failure to push boundaries
- Turning obstacles into opportunities
- Challenging conformity and the status quo
- Navigating universal, cultural, and personal fears
- Cultivating bravery over fearlessness
- Leveraging authenticity to overcome Imposter Syndrome
Spoiler Alert: Michelle will begin her presentation by dancing reggaeton U N A P O L O G E T I C A L L Y to make people experience their comfort zone. The impact of her message becomes evident at the end, when she gets the entire audience on their feet to close off the session with an all-out dance party.
As a branding expert, entrepreneur, and leader of a community of hundreds of thousands of people on social media, Michelle has been able to leverage her authentic story and experience to become a renowned author, an international keynote speaker and a digital educator with over 6,000 students across the globe.
IRREPLACEABLE is a journey through one’s individuality and the power of owning who we already are. It’s a call to contrast instead of compare. An invitation to show up and bring out what we’ve got.
Key Benefits for team members:
- Showing up at work with authentic, unique, bold ideas and perspectives
- Breaking the loop of comparison to become one of a kind
- Overcoming perfectionism to unleash creativity and innovation
- Crushing the imposter syndrome and trusting your worth
- Leading with purpose and confidence
- Promoting and pitching ideas with enthusiasm instead of fear or doubt
- Developing trustworthiness anchored on your values
Key Benefits for the organization:
- Individuals who can understand their own worth and embrace their authentic selves, will tap into their confidence to add exponential value to any team, spark innovative ideas, collaborate instead of compete, encourage creativity and help your organization stand out from the competition.
A great fit for:
- Sales and marketing
- Direct Selling
- Associations
- Diversity and Inclusion
- Team Building
Like everything Michelle does, this isn’t another speaking session, it’s an audiovisual EXPERIENCE that will make the audience laugh, reflect, learn, feel empowered, dance (obviously ☺) and take immediate action towards becoming irreplaceable.
PS: If requested, Michelle can turn this Keynote into a 60-90 minute workshop that includes a special workbook for the audience to complete during the session.
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