EP 77: Wear The Red Jeans With Keele Burgin
Keele Burgin is an entrepreneur, activist, international best-selling author, and filmmaker. Her story of survival and self-discovery has inspired a life dedicated to making a profound impact on people across the globe through business, education and storytelling. She believes when a person finds their voice and shares their story, they can change the world around them.
From the extreme isolation of her childhood, growing up in a catholic cult, Keele has built a life of global human connection across disciplines. Her business acumen includes co-founding an international strategic marketing company traded on the public market to being instrumental in selling her analytics company to a Fortune 100. While making her mark in business she maintained a determination to turn her trauma into medicine. This led her to serve in leadership roles on the boards of multiple international nonprofit organizations including Friendship Bridge and Maia Impact that empower women through microfinance, vocal empowerment, and social collateral. Committed to understanding the inner workings of strong women, Keele set out on a journey producing a movie with Dr. Jane Goodall. Dubbed by Jane as ‘the real story keeper,’ Keele spent two years traveling with Jane, sitting with the chimpanzees in Gombe and conducting extensive interviews with Jane, her son, grandchildren and those close to her for an unprecedented look into Jane’s life. Keele’s work has been acquired by the Walt Disney Co. and will be the first narrative feature film about Dr Goodall.
Keele’s best-selling memoir, Wholly Unraveled, delivers a gripping portrait of a resilient young woman who turned her deep shame into awe-inspiring dignity and grace. She is currently in development with Anonymous Content to bring Wholly Unraveled to the screen.
Keele’s passion to bring women together led her to found (B)Tribes to bring like-minded women together to ignite their inner compass and make profound transformations in their lives through curated tribes, curriculum and coaching. (B)Tribes is meant for women who want to be the heroine of their own journey.
Keele is a gifted speaker with a message of hope, resilience and the power of storytelling that has been shared on national stages, in magazines, NPR tours, podcasts, university lecture circuits and webinars.
Specific topics for speaking engagements include:
- Sharing the story you don’t want to say out loud
- Reshaping your trauma
- The path to worthiness
- The impact of having a tribe
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