Angela Gargano: Motivational Speaker

Helps teams and leaders build resilience through practical rituals, trauma-informed strategies, and measurable habits to sustain performance under pressure consistently.

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Quick Facts:

Highlights:
  • 6-Time American Ninja Warrior Competitor
  • Miss Fitness America 2016
  • Founder of Strong Feels Good and Pull-up Revolution
  • Featured on the cover of Oxygen Magazine

Formats Available: Keynote Talks, Workshops
Preferred Audience Sizes: Preferred Audience Sizes: Teams (30–200); Conference keynotes (200–3,000)
Outcomes:
  1. Practical resilience rituals teams can use immediately.
  2. Increased psychological safety and engagement metrics.
  3. Faster decision-making under stress.
  4. Lowered absenteeism / improved retention signals.

Keynote Topics

The Mindset Shift That Turns Challenges into Breakthroughs

What if, instead of focusing on what could go wrong, you started asking: What if it all goes right?

Angela Gargano teaches individuals and teams how to shift from hesitation to high performance using her RIGHT Framework:

  • Recognize & Feel
  • Identify What You Want + What You Can Control
  • Game Plan it Out
  • Hold the Adaptable Mindset
  • Take Relentless Delusional Action

his proven system empowers people to navigate uncertainty, build resilience, and take bold action even before they feel ready.

Instead of being paralyzed by worst-case scenario thinking, they gain the tools to adapt, innovate, and turn challenges into opportunities. By focusing on what’s possible, rather than what’s preventable, they unlock a mindset that fuels growth, confidence, and long-term success.

The result? Stronger leadership, greater adaptability, and the ability to take decisive action, again and again.

This keynote is more than just motivation it’s a battle-tested strategy for resilience, leadership, and achieving impossible goals.

When most people stop, you will keep going, growing, and leading.

Key Outcomes & Takeaways

  • How to navigate uncertainty like a high performer, whether in leadership, business, or life
  • A battle-tested, reliable system for moving through hard things, the RIGHT Framework
  • How to break big challenges into manageable steps—so you don’t just start, you finish
  • Reframing failure and setbacks as fuel for your next breakthrough
  • Mastering emotions, building confidence, and taking bold action in high-pressure situations
  • How to show up as a powerful leader, whether for your team, your clients, or yourself
  • Stories that inspire, strategies that stick, and a mindset shift that lasts long after the event
  • A deeper sense of fulfillment, excitement, and ownership over your work and life

Talent Short Bio

Angela Gargano is a resilience and performance specialist who translates neuroscience and trauma-informed practice into pragmatic tools leaders can use the next day. Angela’s work focuses on converting lived experience and research into rituals, frameworks, and micro-habits that help teams stay steady during change and crisis.

She partners with leadership teams to embed repeatable processes that increase trust, accelerate decisions, and reduce burnout, all measured via engagement and performance indicators. Angela’s delivery style blends credible science with highly actionable playbooks, delivering sessions that are both memorable and operationally useful.

Her programs are well suited to HR leaders, C-suite retreats, and conferences seeking concrete behavior change rather than inspirational platitudes.

Angela Gargano is a keynote speaker, 6x American Ninja Warrior, Miss Fitness America, 3x Covergirl biochemist-turned-coach, and founder of a global movement that’s helped thousands of women accomplish what once felt impossible, starting with their first pull-up.

After tearing her ACL live on national television, Angela didn’t just recover she redefined herself. She turned a career-halting injury into a comeback story, launching a six-figure business rooted in resilience, adaptability, and bold action. She now brings that same battle-tested mindset to organizations and audiences worldwide.

Her signature RIGHT™ Framework helps individuals and teams break through fear, perfectionism, and burnout teaching them how to navigate change, take aligned action, and build sustainable momentum even when things feel uncertain.

With a background in biochemistry and gymnastics, Angela brings both science and soul to her keynotes. Her talks are known for blending raw storytelling, contagious energy, and practical, actionable tools that leave lasting impact.

Angela Gargano’s work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Women’s Health, and Oxygen Magazine, and she’s spoken on stages across industries from healthcare to tech to high-performance leadership. Whether she’s leading a room full of executives, entrepreneurs, or high-achieving women, her mission is clear: to help people stop waiting for clarity and start creating it.

What if it all goes right? Angela is here to show you how.

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Angela Gargano

Travel & Fee Range:**

  • Travels from: Austin
  • **Fee range: $10,000 - $15,000

Talent Videos

Angela Gargano 2025 Speaking Video

Angela Gargano’s 2025 speaking reel captures her story as an elite athlete, coach, and motivator. Blending resilience with actionable strategy, she inspires audiences to reframe adversity and ask the transformative question: What if it all goes right?

Summary

Angela is a fierce athlete, coach, international fitness model, and speaker. She has helped over 500 women conquer their pull-ups through her online program, Pull-Up Revolution, and built a women’s fitness community with her platform Strong Feels Good.

Last season, I tore my ACL. I was in a lot of pain. We’ve all had our ACL moment, haven’t we? That moment where you start to question everything: Can I really do this? Maybe I’m not as strong as I thought. It’s so easy to get stuck, to spiral, to forget just how powerful you really are.

Uncertainty, change, failure, overwhelm whether it’s a deal that fell through, a health scare that knocks you down, a relationship that shakes your confidence, or the burnout you’ve been ignoring. The question isn’t if adversity will hit, but when. And when it does, will you be ready?

But what if instead of thinking what if it all goes wrong, we dared to ask, what if it all goes right? That’s when I shifted my mindset. I focused not on what I couldn’t do, but on what I could do. I decided to document my journey.

Resiliency is built on adaptability. You need to adapt to whatever life throws at you. When one door closes, another opens — but nobody talks about the hallway in between. My question is: are you ready to navigate that hallway with me?

Everything changed when I started asking just one question: What if it all goes right? What if it’s already going right?

In the midst of chaos, I realized I was using a repeatable framework, which I now call the Right Framework System. It helps you move forward, even when everything feels uncertain. I created this while pushing through my own struggles, and now I share it to help others overcome challenges, adapt to change, and transform into their best selves for themselves and their teams.

You don’t need 100% confidence. You just need 1% courage. Sometimes the boldest moves happen when nothing makes sense. Take the next step anyway, because forward is still forward.

When you leave this talk, you won’t just feel inspired you’ll leave with a roadmap and the tools to navigate uncertainty without losing yourself. You won’t just bounce back; you’ll rise up stronger, wiser, and capable of more than you ever imagined.

So stop obsessing over what could go wrong. Start leading with the belief that it might just all go right. What if it’s already going right?

Taking off the race… oh yeah, she’s ready for the comeback.

Key Moments

0:00 Angela is a fierce athlete, coach,
0:02 international fitness model, and
0:03 speaker. And she’s also helped over 500
0:05 women conquer their pull-ups with her
0:07 online program, Pull-Up Revolution, and
0:09 created an online fitness empire for

Moved by Angela’s clarity and energy? Let’s book her for your next leadership, wellness, or empowerment event tiny talk, big impact.

Summary

So, how did a biochemist accidentally become an American Ninja Warrior? That was me, working 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. in a lab. A friend suggested I audition, and after some hesitation, I submitted a video. Weeks later, I got the call: “You’ve been accepted to American Ninja Warrior. Compete in two weeks.”

With no experience, I trained in a backyard ninja course, broke my nose on day one, and somehow found myself competing in Pittsburgh. I quickly learned five behind-the-scenes facts: filming runs overnight, you never know the obstacles in advance, adjustments happen on the fly, competitors wait hours before running, and you may not even be aired. I wasn’t. But I was hooked.

After two years, I returned with a story: I quit biochemistry, opened my own gym, and landed on the cover of Women’s Health. Stronger than ever, I was ready. But in front of everyone, I tore my ACL. From the strongest moment of my life to the weakest in seconds.

I sank into doubt and depression, until I reframed my mindset: What can I do? I documented my recovery, showing every struggle and step forward. That story became my comeback.

When I finally returned to the Ninja course, I wasn’t just competing — I was celebrating resilience. Every obstacle was joy, every landing proof I had grown. And I realized: growth hurts, but it transforms. I didn’t just bounce back. I rose stronger than I ever imagined.

Key Moments

0:48 really I just thought it was spam. So, I
0:50 just let it go to voicemail. And on the
0:52 voicemail, it said, “You’ve been
0:53 accepted to American Ninja Warrior.”
0:56 Like, literally like that. That’s
0:57 exactly how they said it. And you need

This talk captures Angela Gargano’s defining moment on American Ninja Warrior when a devastating ACL tear forced her off the course. Through vulnerability, grit, and a repeatable framework, she shares how setbacks can become opportunities and how leaders and individuals can rise stronger after failure.

Summary

So there I was, ready to compete on the platform of American Ninja Warrior. The lights were shining in my face, my heart beating faster than ever. But let’s step back for a moment. I wasn’t supposed to be there.

I was a biochemist, working 12-hour overnight shifts, when a friend convinced me to submit a video for the show. I didn’t believe I’d get in. But a few months later, a call came: “You’ve been accepted to American Ninja Warrior. Compete in two weeks.”

With no training, I scrambled to prepare. I showed up, gave my best, and although clueless, I was hooked. From then on, I trained relentlessly, determined to become one of the top female athletes. I submitted video after video, facing rejection after rejection. Finally, I made it back. This time I was ready — and maybe a little cocky.

On the course, I felt weightless, gliding from obstacle to obstacle. I reached the final platform, sure I had secured my spot as a top female competitor. But as I dismounted, I blacked out. A crack, a pop, and I was carried off the course with a torn ACL.

I felt like a failure. Embarrassed. Lost. Who was I without this identity? But that setback became an opportunity.

Here’s what I learned:

Feel the feelings — don’t ignore them, but don’t stay stuck.
Focus on what you can control instead of what you can’t.
Take bold, even “delusional,” action toward a comeback.
That injury wasn’t the end of my story. It was the start of a stronger, wiser, more resilient version of me.

Key Moments

00:00 – Ready to compete under the bright lights of American Ninja Warrior
01:20 – From biochemist to unexpected Ninja Warrior competitor
03:10 – Returning stronger, training relentlessly, and gaining confidence
04:20 – ACL tear on the final obstacle — collapse and injury
06:00 – Identity crisis: struggling with failure and embarrassment
07:30 – Three steps to rise from setbacks: feel, focus, take action

In this dynamic keynote, Angela Gargano shares her transformation from biochemist to fitness entrepreneur, American Ninja Warrior competitor, and empowerment coach. She delivers practical insights on resilience, body image, women’s strength, and her signature “What If It All Goes Right” method. Packed with humor, raw honesty, and actionable takeaways, this talk inspires individuals and teams to push limits, embrace setbacks, and discover their own power.

Summary

Key Moments

00:00 – Introduction to Angela Gargano
01:30 – Journey from biochemist to fitness leader
06:05 – Empowering women through pull-ups and Strong Feels Good
09:15 – American Ninja Warrior experience
11:55 – Overcoming body image struggles
15:20 – The “What If It All Goes Right” method
18:05 – The forgotten pants fiasco
20:00 – Pull-up training begins
27:00 – Empowerment through small wins
30:05 – Handling rejection and staying motivated
33:45 – Gratitude and meditation for inner strength

Talent FAQ's

A: Absolutely. Angela does a pre-event consultation and we customize stories, case studies, and exercises to fit your industry and outcomes.

A: For live events: wireless lavalier + handheld mic, projector/screen, and a confidence monitor if available. For virtual: stable upload bandwidth, a dedicated HDMI feed or high-quality screen-share, and good presenter audio.

A: Prefer 8–12 weeks notice for optimal prep and customization. Shorter lead times can sometimes be accommodated—contact us to check availability.

A: Fees vary by format, date, and travel. Please contact Speakers Inc for a current fee range and availability; virtual sessions typically cost less than onsite engagements.

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