You’re told that if you want success, find your passion and commit to it. For life. Except this isn’t how it happens for most of us. Terri Trespicio knows that you might not actually know what your “passion” is. And she’s got a better way to help you to make a life that matters to you.
On Saturday, January 29, Terri, a nationally in-demand speaker, brand advisor, stand-up comic, and author of “Unfollow Your Passion: How to Create A Life That Matters to You,” will offer you a completely fresh take on life, work, and meaning. She’ll show you how (and why) to skewer platitudes and flip society, culture, and the #patriarchy the bird.
Part writing workshop, part book launch party, and part author Q&A, UNFOLLOW YOUR PASSION: An Evening with Author Terri Trespicio will introduce you the tools you need (and the permission you crave) to dispense with the BS, toss the old advice, and lay claim to the life that’s been yours the whole time—so that you can begin to live it on your terms.
Terri Trespicio is an award-winning writer, speaker, brand advisor, and the author Unfollow Your Passion: How to Create a Life that Matters to You (December 2021, Atria/Simon & Schuster). Her TEDx talk, “Stop Searching for Your Passion,” has surpassed 7 million views, and she was named by Hubspot as one of the “Top 18 female speakers who are killing it” (she came in at #2—Oprah was #8), and one of the world’s leading creatives by Creative Boom magazine. A former magazine editor and radio host at Martha Stewart, she has appeared on the Today show, Dr. Oz, The Early Show, The Martha Stewart Show and The Anderson Cooper Show. Her work has been featured in Oprah magazine, Marie Claire, Prevention, Business Insider, Forbes.com, and Inc.com.
An in-demand speaker who presents at conferences across the country, she was rated the #1 speaker at Barron’s Top Independent Women Advisors Summit and How Design Live. Terri is also a stand-up comic and has performed at famous Manhattan venues including Caroline’s, Dangerfield’s, Gotham, and New York Comedy Club, and was a quarter-finalist in the She Devil Comedy Competition. Terri earned her BA in English from Boston College and a MFA in Creative Writing in 2002 from Emerson College, where her thesis, a collection of poetry, won the Graduate Dean Award. A finalist for the Iowa Award and Glimmer Train, her literary work has appeared in The Greensboro Review, New Millenium Writings, and The Baltimore Review, where she won first place in their 2016 creative nonfiction contest. Terri lives in Manhattan. More at territrespicio.com.
We are proud to partner with Read To Me Literary Arts to present this event!
Masks will be required for entrance and moving around the space.