I’m Minna!
I am a recovering actress, proud author, devoted leader, and advocate of authenticity. I help you learn to play, fail, and tell powerful stories.
Author, Speaker, Facilitator
If you had asked me 20 years ago when I moved from a farm in Appalachia Virginia to New York City to attend NYU Tisch for acting where I would see myself two decades from now, I would never have envisioned traveling the globe helping influential people distill and deliver messages that have the power to transform our world. My goal was to be on a primetime television show! I think my younger self would be very pleased if she knew this was what her life would become.
I consider it a sincere privilege to work with leaders, visionaries, and change agents to help them feel a deeper level of confidence in sharing their big ideas on a global stage. I stand in creative thought partnership with my clients to help them bring forth a level of clarity that ignites them to speak up and share their voice. I help them learn to play the music of their thoughts.
I incorporated Play in my trainings 10 years ago when people viewed storytelling and authenticity in the workplace as a weakness. Today the story is different.
When I started my company, Energize Your Voice 10 years ago, I was swimming in uncharted waters. Not only because I was a struggling actress with an MFA who cleaned houses to make ends meet and consistently felt ridiculous for bringing play to serious people in suits, but because serious people in suits were still convinced that communication needed to be information first and inspiration last (if at all) and that bringing authenticity and storytelling into work was a sign of weakness. I am happy to report that 10 years later, we have all (well, mostly all) embraced the power of the individual contributor to transform any moment to miraculous when given the opportunity to think creatively, experience safety in collaboration, and express themselves with power and purpose.
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Here’s the deal…You are not broken. You are not in need of fixing.
young Minna
Everything you seek to become is already inside of you. It’s just buried under a bunch of junk.
We are born in a place of full empowerment, but over the course of time, as we take on the physical habits of our lived experience and brace ourselves against the struggles of the day to day, we lose that sense of empowerment. That ease and effortlessness of wonder, curiosity, and willingness to say yes to life. Our junk blocks us from our full potential.
The good news is you can bring yourself back to life.
Communication is a physical activity. Whether you’re giving a keynote speech, leading a team meeting, or simply having a critical conversation, your body determines the experience, not your brain. When called to rise to the occasion, the only resources that will allow you to step into that moment with presence, are a body free of tension, deep and easy breathing, a fully expressive voice, and the distinct availability of play - the intangible space of unpredictability and aliveness.
Reflect on any speaker that captivated your attention. There was an ease and effortlessness to their presentation and an almost tangible experience of connection between them and you. This is the power of presence and presence lives in the landscape of play. This is the confident body.
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Speaking of The Confident Body, here’s a book I wrote…
What you say matters. How you say it matters more.
These are just a few insights into the wisdom held within The Confident Body: a functional approach to unlocking your full potential, where Minna seeks to redefine confidence not as some subjective designation based on an idea of what confidence looks like, but rather as a perception based on a set of behaviors that we can all practice and embody. She promotes that confidence is available to everyone and everyone is capable of living in a confident body.
Play is at the heart of this practical approach for transformation, learning to do less and say yes to your life. Author Minna Taylor is on a mission to change that narrative and prove that fostering confidence is attainable for anyone who dares to unlock it.
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