Meredith Breitstein: Motivational Speaker

Meredith Breitstein: six-time award-winning motivational speaker, TV host, and leadership trainer inspiring audiences to embrace change, overcome adversity, and SHINE.

Quick Facts:

Highlights:
  • Six-time award-winning motivational speaker & TEDx presenter
  • Host of The Meredith Show streaming worldwide
  • Creator of the S.H.I.N.E. resilience and leadership framework
  • TV journalist turned global speaker and leadership trainer
  • Featured on Amazon Prime TV and in national publications

Formats: Keynote Speaker, Leadership Trainer, Motivational Emcee

Audiences: Corporate leaders, teams navigating change, women’s conferences, growth-focused organizations

Outcomes:
  1. Practical resilience tools to overcome adversity and embrace change
  2. Leadership strategies for presence, confidence, and communication
  3. Immediate inspiration to “shine” and step into growth opportunities
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  • Travels from: Los Angeles, California
  • **Fee range: $5,001 - $10,000

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Keynote Topics:

The last few years have created unprecedented challenges for millions. Isolation, depression, and poor health have led to a wave of paralyzing overwhelm, procrastination, and low motivation.

This is the keynote speech that will help you turn it all around.

In Shine Right Now, six-time award-winning motivational speaker Meredith Allan Breitstein uses interactive, humorous stories to enlighten her audiences, inspiring them to play BIG in the game of life. This speech invites teams like yours to see opportunities in all the stress and discomfort—and inspires committed action.

This keynote speech is perfect for corporate groups ready to step out of their comfort zones and into playing a BIGGER GAME. Your teams will leave ready to shed their excuses and fully re-engage in pursuing their goals and dreams. In other words, they’ll SHINE.

In these engaging 90-minute sessions, your team will discover how to push through mental blocks and find ways to innovate and succeed.

Have more time? We’ll customize a session to meet your company’s needs.

How to Overcome Anything
 
In today’s world, it’s more important than ever to be able to push past obstacles that block your path. This workshop is designed to give participants tools to get “unstuck.”

Originally designed for high school students, this workshop became a popular program for corporations during the pandemic. Your group or team will learn how life is a series of opportunities often disguised as problems and challenges.

They’ll walk away with a deeper understanding of the importance of resilience and concrete ways to develop more of this valuable trait.

Leadership is the single most important skill to achieve success in life and business. Meredith will teach your team 12 essential steps to reach the highest level of leadership.

Completely customizable, this workshop can be completed in one 90-minute session—or it can be split into 12 individual lessons for a more in-depth experience. 

Participants will walk away with a clear vision of how to play big and lead their teams to greatness.

In this workshop, adapted from Meredith’s Amazon Prime TV show of the same name, your group will learn how to embrace change and thrive in uncertain times.

Meredith shares unforgettable stories about the gifts found in adversity and how shifting your mindset can alter the course of your life.

Ultimately, Meredith takes participants on an interactive journey to understand the opportunity and magic in change.

Change is inevitable in life and in business. The key is shifting your perspective to view change and adversity as gifts—and problems as possibilities.

In this workshop, Meredith shares stories and life lessons from her own journey to inspire and motivate your team.

Participants will leave with a new understanding of leadership—and actionable ideas of how to uplevel their personal and professional lives.

Talent Short Bio

Meredith Breitstein is an international keynote speaker, emcee, and leadership trainer passionate about helping people overcome adversity, embrace change, and find the courage to shine. A six-time award-winning speaker, she has empowered thousands of leaders and teams to step into their presence, speak with confidence, and level up their leadership.

Her signature keynote, “Shine Right Now,” teaches audiences to reframe stress and uncertainty as opportunities for growth, using her S.H.I.N.E. framework. Meredith also leads workshops on resilience, leadership, and transformation, including Finding the Magic in Change, 12 Steps to Level Up Your Leadership, and Changemasters.

A former TV journalist for FOX, ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN, Meredith now hosts The Meredith Show on The Motivation and Success TV Network, Apple TV, Roku, and Amazon TV. She has been featured in national magazines and on Amazon Prime’s Speak Up.

A 6-time award-winning keynote speaker Meredith Breitstein tours the world encouraging leaders to step into their destiny, walk through fear, and SHINE by finding their courage. 

She specializes in helping teams, and her audiences speak up, stand out, and command a room with their presence.  After coaching thousands of leaders she has learned there are 5 steps all of us can take to level UP and start right away.  In her most requested Keynote Meredith teaches her 5-step framework to reveal how all teams and leaders can S. H. I. N. E.

In Meredith’s TEDx talk “Don’t waste a minute, shine RIGHT NOW” she inspires her audiences to take fast, committed action to show up powerfully so they can SHINE after adversity. She is frequently hired as a Motivational Speaker, Emcee, and Leadership Trainer for organizations to help leaders and teams standout and SHINE. She loves teaching clients how to level up their courage to power up their presence and be SEEN! 

She is also a seasoned TV journalist, who found her passion for storytelling while working for FOX, ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN.  For over a decade she has served as host of The Meredith TV Show, helping others share their amazing stories of overcoming adversity and finding the courage to SHINE.  You can watch her TV show on The Motivation and Success TV Network, Apple TV, Roku, and Amazon TV.

Meredith’s inspirational story of overcoming personal adversity, The Magic in Change, has been featured in several national magazines, and on Amazon Prime’s TV show Speak Up. 

Meredith’s two greatest loves are hitting the road while teaching her audiences how to SHINE and chasing sunsets at home on the beach in California with her husband, son, and rescue puppy Pepper.

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Meredith Breitstein | Motivational Speaker & Leadership Trainer Showcase

Meredith Breitstein shares her award-winning approach to resilience and leadership, teaching audiences how to SHINE through adversity and change.

Meredith Breitstein’s showcase video introduces her as a high-energy motivational speaker and leadership trainer who helps people find resilience and confidence in challenging times. She opens with her signature message that adversity is not a barrier but an opportunity to shine.

The video highlights her S.H.I.N.E. framework, designed to help leaders and teams reframe setbacks, embrace change, and step into growth with courage. Meredith emphasizes that resilience is a learned skill, and she uses humor, storytelling, and interactive delivery to make her tools practical and accessible.

Clips of her speaking engagements show her connecting with audiences, mixing motivational storytelling with actionable strategies. She draws on her experience as a journalist and television host to deliver her message with authenticity and professionalism.

The showcase closes with Meredith’s call to action: to embrace challenges as opportunities, lead with confidence, and “shine right now.”

Key Moments

00:00 – 00:40 — Introduction: resilience and the S.H.I.N.E. message
00:40 – 01:20 — Personal journey and lessons from adversity
01:20 – 02:15 — Leadership and communication strategies
02:15 – 03:00 — Clips of engaging workshops and keynotes
03:00 – 03:39 — Closing: call to action to SHINE in life and leadership

In this 17-minute TEDx talk, Meredith Breitstein shares her S.H.I.N.E. framework, inspiring audiences to embrace resilience and use adversity as a path to growth.

Meredith Allen Breitstein takes the TEDxCSUF stage with her signature energy and authenticity in “Don’t waste a minute. Shine right now.” She begins by sharing a deeply personal story of adversity, setting the stage for her central message: life’s challenges should not be wasted — they can be catalysts for growth.

She introduces her S.H.I.N.E. framework, an acronym that guides audiences through resilience and transformation:

S – Self-awareness: understanding personal strengths and blind spots.
H – Hope: maintaining optimism even in uncertainty.
I – Intention: setting purposeful goals to drive action.
N – Nurture: investing in relationships and self-care.
E – Empowerment: building confidence and inspiring others.

Throughout her talk, Meredith illustrates each principle with real-life examples and lessons from her journey as a journalist, speaker, and leader. She emphasizes the urgency of not waiting for the “perfect time” to act or change — instead, she calls on the audience to “shine right now.”

Her delivery is heartfelt and engaging, balancing vulnerability with humor and practical wisdom. She challenges the audience to look at their setbacks differently, reframing them as opportunities for leadership, growth, and influence.

In closing, Meredith leaves a powerful call to action: stop wasting time, embrace your story, and step into the light of who you are meant to be.

Key Moments

00:00 – 02:00 — Opening story: adversity as a catalyst for change
02:00 – 05:00 — Introducing the S.H.I.N.E. framework
05:00 – 08:00 — Self-awareness and hope: the first steps to resilience
08:00 – 11:00 — Intention and nurture: building purpose and relationships
11:00 – 14:00 — Empowerment: confidence and inspiring others
14:00 – 16:30 — Lessons learned: reframing setbacks as stepping stones
16:30 – 17:21 — Closing call to action: don’t wait, shine right now

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