It’s Here! The Successful Speaker Webinar teaches you to share your lived experience, make an impact and profit without the burnout
Calling all storytellers, advocates, survivors, educators and change makers… this free webinar is for the people who have a transformative message to share with the world. Join award-winning speaker Marlee Liss in this 30-minute session where you’ll learn 5 keys to building your speaking business.
You know you have a message that matters - but building a speaking practice shouldn’t require burnout, self-sacrifice, or giving your story away for free.
This free, 30 minute webinar offers a grounded, trauma-informed conversation about what it actually takes to build an authentic, ethical, and profitable speaking practice - one that supports your life instead of draining it.
Through practical teaching, reflection, and lived experience, Marlee Liss shares five keys that helped her move from unpaid and underpaid talks to a thriving full-time speaking career rooted in integrity, sustainability, and joy. You’ll learn about prospecting and pitching strategies, pricing & standard keynote rates, reframing guilt around charging, how to honour your boundaries as a speaker and more.
This webinar is for storytellers, survivors, educators, advocates, and leaders who care deeply about making an impact - and are ready to be valued, seen and compensated for their work and message. You’ll leave feeling more confident, clear and resourced to take your next step - whether that’s refining your message, pitching your first (or next) talk, or finally building a speaking practice on your own terms.
By the End of this Webinar, You Will:
Clarify your speaking vision
Get clear on the feelings, outcomes, and impact you want your speaking to create - for your audience and for your own life.Shift your relationship to money and worth
Learn why being paid for justice-oriented and educational speaking is not only ethical - but essential for sustainability and access.Develop skills to create a signature keynote
Learn how to move beyond “sharing your story” to designing a clear, compelling keynote with a strong title, description, and learning objectives.Create a strategy around WHO to pitch
Discover simple, practical ways to identify aligned organizations, campuses, and conferences that actually have budgets for speakers.Explore trauma-informed speaking practices for longevity
Learn how to captivate audiences without over-sharing or burning out - and how boundaries can be part of your impact.
About Your Facilitator: Hi, I’m Marlee!
Marlee Liss is a somatic educator, author, RSW, and sparkle-loving lesbian feminist. Her sexual assault case set precedent in the North American justice system after she fought for a Restorative Justice outcome through the courts. Since then, she has founded the Survivors 4 Justice Reform global coalition and supported thousands in learning about healing trauma, re-imagining justice and violence prevention. Marlee's work has been featured in Forbes, Huff Post, Buzzfeed, the Mel Robbins Show and more.
As an award-winning speaker, she's delivered talks for over 100,000 people and has shared stages with Gabor Mate, Elizabeth Smart, Sonya Renee Taylor, Stephen Porges and more. Her past engagements include: National Sexual Assault Conference, Vanderbilt University, University of Toronto, Action Trauma Summit, Women's Mental Health Conference at Yale and more. Marlee’s story was made into a documentary directed by Kelsey Darragh titled, ‘The Limits of Forgiveness’ and her book on re-imagining justice will be released with Penguin Random House in Spring 2027. Learn more at @marleeliss and @survivors4justicereform
