#ChallengeAccepted: How To Become An Event Speaker & Find Your Voice
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#ChallengeAccepted: How To Become An Event Speaker & Find Your Voice
Want to speak at events but don’t know where to start? Or have you spoken before but want more opportunities? This session guides you through everything you need to launch (or expand) your speaking career. Learn how to decide what topics to speak about, approach events and organizers, and balance speaking for free versus paid gigs.
We’ll also cover how to build confidence on stage, explore fireside chats, panels, and moderation as ways to practice your signature talks, and show how online and in-person speaking opportunities can help you refine your content and get noticed, including tips for TEDx stage readiness.
What you’ll learn:
How to decide your signature topics and what audiences need
Approaching events and applying to speak
Doing it for free vs. paid: what works and when
Gaining confidence through fireside chats, panels, and moderation
Practicing talks online and in-person to test what resonates
Insider tips for TEDx and high-profile speaking opportunities
Who this is for:
First-time speakers ready to take the stage
Experienced speakers looking to expand their opportunities
Event professionals, freelancers, and founders who want to grow visibility and influence
Our speaker
Cepee Tabibian, Founder & CEO, She Hit Refresh
Cepee Tabibian is the founder of She Hit Refresh, a global platform that helps women age 30+ figure out and fast-track their move aborad.
At 35, she upended her life—selling her belongings and moving to Spain—and has spent the last decade building a life abroad while helping other women do the same.
Today, through She Hit Refresh, she leads a global community of over 20,000 women and has helped thousands create a clear, actionable plan to move abroad.
Cepee is an international speaker who has taken the stage at events in the U.S., Europe, and Middle East including TEDx Marbella, TBEX San Sebastián, Wanderful Women in Travel Summit (NYC), Facebook Community Circle (Tel Aviv) and Bansko Nomad Fest (Bulgaria).
Her work and story have been featured in major media outlets including Forbes, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times.
She is the proud daughter of Colombian and Iranian immigrants, grew up in Houston, Texas and later became an immigrant herself, now based in Spain.