SPEAK UP WOMAN!
WOMEN OF ALL AGES FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE STEPPING FORWARD TO SPEAK UP
SPEAKER EVENT
SATURDAY 11TH MAY 2024
Time: 11-4pm
KING ALFRED BALLROOM
KINGS ROAD
BRIGHTON AND HOVE BN3 2WW
Speak Up Woman is a speaker course for women, with a live stage finale, allowing the participants to get practice in front of a real audience and get a video recording of their talk to share on social media so that they can spread their messages around the world.
We have some amazing and powerful talks coming up – you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll feel inspired, empowered and ready to support women all along the way!
Speak Up Woman supports women entrepreneurs who want to raise their profile as experts and reach a larger national and international audience, and also reach out to women who need support to raise their confidence, empowering them with new prospects for better living and work conditions.
This is not TEDx and it’s not a competition. This is – perhaps – the step before that.
SCHEDULE FOR THE DAY
11-1pm
SPEAKERS ON STAGE
14 women step forward to give the talks they've been practicing with support.
New and Experienced speakers, maximum 8min each.
1-1.30pm
LUNCH BREAK
Lunch break, meet the speakers, book them for your own event!
Buy some food from the restaurant and get to know some very lovely people.
1.30-1.50pm
KEYNOTE SPEECH
Midlife influencer and powerhouse Lou Featherstone of Lu in LuLand gives her inspirational talk!
2-3pm
MORE SPEAKERS
Our final speakers step forward to give their talks.
3-4pm
Be Bold Workshop with Lu Featherstone
Networking and Fizz!
THE sPEAKER PART:
✧ 8 minute talks on any topic
✧ Women get speaker practice from the stage with a live audience
✧ The talks are filmed so the speakers get a video clip of their talk
✧ The audience gets to hear and support some inspiring women and their amazing stories
✧ Workshop: Lou Featherstone of Lu in Luland
SPEAKER CATEGORIES:
01
Biz Women
Our professional women have a speech ready to share, but they want to practice and get it filmed. The topics vary and the talks are maximum 12 minutes long.
02
First Timers
Many women have never spoken up ever before. This is a chance for them to try out their voice from stage with a safe and supportive audience for 8 minutes.
03
Young Women
Our Young Women are under the age of 21 and have a minimum of 3 minutes to share something they have on their mind.
BE BOLD WORKSHOP:
LOU FEATHERSTONE OF LU IN LULAND
Lou is a 52 year old accidental middle aged influencer, dedicated to empowering women to find their confidence in mid-life, step out of their comfort zone and see what the heck happens.
“For years I was told to simmer down, lower my voice, be seen and not heard, to be a good wife, a good vicars daughter and a good mum. I’ve been told to act my age, talk with an inside voice and for years I tried desperately to shrink myself down and into everyone else’s expectations of me. Well that was a waste of time.
So here I am on this wild ride, determined not to let you make the same mistakes as me.
Check out Lou here: INSTAGRAM
SPEAKERS SPRING 2024
Moyra Scott
Moyra Scott is a creative genius earning a living doing what she loves. She is an artist, facilitator and a coach. It is her firm belief that art and creative self expression, is not a luxury but a human need. Moyra hosts art retreats, runs workshops and is the creator of a process called Wild Art Journaling. As a coach and creative, Moyra has worked extensively with organisations such as Reuters, King’s College London and the United Nations.
Susanna Petche
Dr Susanna Petche is a lifestyle & functional medicine GP with 25 years of experience working in the NHS. Susanna calls on her own messy journey from breakdown to healing, combines this with professional and academic knowledge of psychological trauma, to both train wellness professionals to become trauma-informed and support others to heal. As a coach herself, Susanna also works with individuals and groups to recognise the physical, emotional and behavioural impacts of psychological trauma. When we can validate our experience, we can empower each other and liberate ourselves from the shackles of psychological trauma and find a path to wholeness.
Helen Zeida
Helen Zeida is a Coach who helps leaders who struggle with stress and manage to support everyone else while ignoring their own needs. Helen helps Social Workers, Residential Care and Education Leaders create a life they love, where they can switch off without feeling guilty. Her coaching approach is developed from holding highly responsible roles and creating a practical toolkit to cope with them AND from her training in NLP, Emotional Intelligence and Mental Fitness. Her love of travelling, festivals and extreme empowerment means Helen makes change and doing important work both possible and fun!
Lady Ava Sheridon
Lady Ava Sheridon is an alternative life coach who integrates kink practices with every day goal setting and accountability. She is the creator of a new and unique executive programme which recognises the relationship between staying accountable and forming habits, whilst also recognising the benefits of utilising kink practices to laser focus the mind and keep the interest based nervous system turned on. Lady Ava helps her executive high achieving clients unlock and explore their kinks safely in a way that feels empowering, and that compliments their overall lifestyle and wellbeing.
Linz Creates
Linz is a positive, heart centred creator of all things joyful, fun and empowering - a Proud Pollyanna with a dash of Boudicca!!! In a world full of darkness and chaos, Linz wants to lead us into the light with curiosity and calmness - she loves helping people to recognise their unique gifts and overcome their challenges. She is always ready to listen, get people to look at things in a different way, and overcome problems together using a little bit of love, magic and creativity...
Nina Khoo
As a Master NLP Coach, Creative Visionary and champion of women, Nina works with sensitive female leaders to fully understand their highly sensitive trait and harness its power. Managing overwhelm, self-doubt and energy levels, her clients let go of everything that keeps them small and invisible. Nina has created the Revolutionary Resilience model as a way to develop true resilience and lead with confidence and integrity. Her vision is to fill the world with sensitive female leaders who use their ability to think and feel deeply and see the Big Picture, to create long-term, sustainable solutions that benefit all.
Alison Wilkins
Alison is the founder of the Brighton Wellbeing Company who delivers massage at Work and employee health coaching programs across Sussex, Surrey, Kent and London. Alisons vision is to bring wellness into the heart of every organisation. She is a passionate in supporting employees to take ownership of their health, which impacts their energy, performance and creativity. As a speaker, consultant and leader in wellbeing at work Alison invites leaders to 'Dare to Care" - creating a ripple effect of positive change that impacts the workplace and the wider community, encouraging resilience, compassion and collective wellbeing.
Helen Guinness
Sarah Rees Evans
Heather Berrie
Carin Eklund
Sarah Rees Evans
FIRST TIME SPEAKERS
Louise Walsh
With over two decades of dedicated service as a registered Nurse, Loulou ia specialising in Dermatology and Aesthetics. LouLou has joyfully learnt to to live life a better way, by embarking on a transformative journey, embracing the world of yoga, meditation and breath-work. She is now on a mission to help a million other women on the path to balance, health and happiness.
Valdirene Ruston
Born in Brazil, Valdirene has lived in 4 different countries and has a 10-year background in international radio news broadcasting. She has a natural flair and curiosity for understanding different cultures and languages, and the impact these have in our societies, social acceptance and inclusivity. She finds motivation in her passions for social change, education and issues surrounding women and families. These passions are vital to her personal motivation, and she credits her multi-heritage and multi-cultural background with being responsible for her empathic and grounding nature with people and in leading women’s circles. She has made the journey from radio producer and presenter, to freelance interpreter for Brazilian footballers, to Life Coach and circle facilitator. At the centre of all this work, is the thread of deep listening, presence, bold questioning and a love for understanding people. Recently, she has been seeking collaborations with male leaders in the Masculine Alchemy movement as part of her mission to putting an end to the ‘motherhood penalty’ and her belief that social and gender equity starts at home.
Rose Bundock
Rose is passionate about hearing people’s stories. After 25 years as a journalist for the BBC, The Guardian and glossy lifestyle magazines, she’s skilled at telling them too. Today, for the first time, she shares her own lived experience. How it’s taken 30 years of thinking ‘what’s wrong with me’ to get a diagnosis of mood disorder Pre-Menstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD). Her talk will bust some myths and raise your awareness of this underdiagnosed condition.
Gerrie Hawes
Gerrie is a Corporate Behavioural Psychologist. Her focus is on the Future of Work and ‘how to be remotely human’. As work becomes increasingly tech enabled and less personable, she works with leaders on the skills needed to support collaboration, innovation, sharing success and learning. Gerrie introduces the HOPE model: happiness, optimism, playfulness and empathy as core to a better future.
Linz Creates
A creative consultant, who believes in the power of using comedy and courage to cultivate confidence. (and all of the good kind of C Words!!!)
Chloe Bullock
Chloe is a Brighton-based interior designer with a 30 year career of designing furniture, homes, Body Shops, buses and bakeries. She talks about finding herself as the reluctant rebel in her industry, encouraging the realisation and avoidance of its negative impact o people, planet and animals, and the exciting and positive ways to work. Chloe is PETA's 'Compassionate Designer of the year' 23 and in April 23 her company became a Certified B Corporation.
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YOUNG GIRLS
To be announced
SOMEONE who is calling all young women and girls to step forward to take part in her story...?
to be announced
SOMEONE who is braving the stage for the first time with her story about.....
To be announced
SOMEONE who is already part of her school's debating club and has a story to share.....?
Preparing for the talks
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EyeStorm Women was set up by Mi Elfverson in 2018 and is a subsidiary of The Vlog Academy, transitioning to a CIC.
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Our goal in everything we do is to support and promote gender equality.
The Speak Up Woman! Brighton 2023 event is the first of our speaker events.