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Green Room Sessions

Free, open, ask-me-anything office hours for speakers and storytellers. Come with a question, find an insight, and leave with a next step.

— WHAT THIS IS IS —

Open session for community,
driven by your hopes, questions, and needs

These are free, open, ask-me-anything office hours — the same warm, no-strings-attached format every month.

You register with the question you'd like answered, and we shape the hangout around whatever's actually on people's minds. The list below is an example menu of what we're always excited to dig into.

1 ‍ ‍ Register

Register with the questions you’d love answered.

2 ‍ ‍ Show Up

Show up live, preferably camera on, no prep needed.

3 The Hour is Yours

We shape the hour around the room’s questions.

4 Leave With Action

Leave with a concrete insight, action, framework, or perspective you can use.

A taste of the most common Green Room Session topics

Bring any of these, or something entirely your own. Whatever's on your mind about speaking, storytelling, or the stage.

The world of TED & TEDx

  • How the ecosystem actually works — the license model, why every chapter is different, 8–12 month timelines
  • What gets an application opened vs. deleted, from 15 years on the other side
  • The biggest reframe: TEDx is a fellowship, not a booking
  • "I've applied before and heard nothing back — what am I doing wrong?"

Finding the idea worth sharing

  • The difference between a topic, an expertise, and an idea that changes everything
  • Our Expert's Discovery Journey framework — personal experience vs. evidence — to distill your life's work into one idea
  • "I have so much to say and I can't figure out the one thing"
  • The 1-minute idea timer, live, whenever the room's up for it

Shaping your story

  • The 3–4 archetypal story-arc shapes behind great TEDx talks
  • Which arc feels like "home" for your idea
  • Finding the right stories and how to tell them to resonate with your audience

Whatever you walk in with

  • Where to even start
  • Whether this path is right for you
  • Anything else on your mind about speaking, storytelling, or the stage
Dustin Huibregtse

YOUR STORYCRAFT GUIDE & SPEAKER COACH

Your guide

Fifteen years on the other side of TEDx applications, and years coaching experts, founders, and advocates toward the idea at the center of their work.

Green Room is the no-pressure version of that — an open hour to bring whatever's on your mind. No agenda, no pitch. Just a warm, candid conversation about your idea, talk, hopes, and the stage your aspire to be on.

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THE COST TO JOIN

Free

Always has been. No catch.

Open to all, virtual, every month

A live hour with an Executive Speaker Coach & Storycraft Guide

Bring any question about speaking, storytelling, creating a talk, or TEDx

No prep, no slides, no obligation

Genuinely focused on giving you action, insights, and ideas

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SAVE MY SPOT

Bring a question.
Find an insight.
Leave with action.

Save your spot in the next free, live Green Room. Tell us what you're hoping to have answered and we'll work to make sure the room gets to it.

Free, live, monthly on Google Meet

No prep, no slides, no pitch

Camera optional; questions welcome

These sessions are open, recorded, and transcribed

By joining you are consent to being recorded and transcribed. Video may be used for educational content or public content release later, but consent to do so will be obtained from you.

Good things to know

READY TO GO DEEPER?

The open hour may just be the beginning of your journey with us

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