Ashley Stahl, Don't Do What You Love, Do What You Are

Ashley Stahl is an entrepreneur, international bestselling author (You Turn), podcast host (You Turn Podcast) and internationally recognized speaker. She stepped onto the TEDxBerkeley stage in 2013 and the TEDxLeidenUniversity stage in 2019. Both of her talks went viral at 2 million and 10 million views, respectively. Her talk in 2013 (“Three Questions to Unlock Your Authentic Career”) also happened to be the first speech she’s ever given in her life. At the time, she’d just finished working in counterterrorism for the Obama Administration, where she learned everything she knew about speaking through writing tips from colleagues who wrote speeches for key members of the administration. Her second talk (“How to Figure Out What You Really Want”) in 2019 went even more viral, and is one of the top 100 most viewed talks on YouTube’s TEDx channel. Knowing the impact these talks had on her career, she was inspired to build Wise Whisper Agency and help other inspirational professionals create their own signature talk and land their spot on stages around the world so they could make more of an impact, generate more leads for their business, and establish themselves in the speaking arena.