Dr Margie Warrell: From a Gippsland Dairy Farm to Closing the Courage Gap

Carmen Sederino sits down with Dr Margie Warrell, courage expert, leadership advisor and bestselling author of six books including The Courage Gap. Margie has gone from a dairy farm in East Gippsland to advising leaders at NASA, Google and US Special Operations, and she didn't even know paid speaking was a job until she was in her thirties. In this conversation, Margie opens up about surviving an armed robbery in Papua New Guinea, losing her first baby ten days later, and landing in Dallas with three kids under three the day after 9/11. She traces how her very first keynote drew an audience of two at her children's preschool, and how a single ask in her first week in Virginia put her in front of NASA scientists. She shares why she now hopes the slides break, how she reads the difference between Aussie, American and Singaporean audiences, and the three-word framework she uses to plan every talk. Whether you're building a speaking career, leading a team through change, or wrestling with the gap between what you know and what you actually do, this one will reshape how you think about fear. 🔑 In this episode: How a $729 trip to Bali at 21 cracked open a country girl's view of the world The armed robbery in Papua New Guinea that redirected the entire course of her life The first keynote in Dallas where only the cleaner and the preschool director turned up Why she went on to run emotional intelligence programs for NASA's rocket scientists The think, feel, do framework she runs every keynote through before stepping on stage Why she now welcomes broken slides ("It's me at my best") How to right size your fear and make your mission bigger than your ego The cultural differences between speaking in Australia, the US and Singapore 🎓 Watch Carmen's free masterclass: https://illuminatedstory.com/mastercl... Connect with Dr Margie Warrell: 🌐 https://margiewarrell.com 💼   / margiewarrell   📸   / margiewarrell   🎙️ https://margiewarrell.com/live-brave-... 📚 https://www.amazon.com/Courage-Gap-St... Connect with Carmen Sederino: 🌐 https://illuminatedstory.com 💼   / public-speaking-strategist-performance-master   📸   / illuminatedstory   🎥    / @carmensederino   The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and host, and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Illuminated Story.