In this heartfelt keynote, Maryam Myika Day explores how the depths of grief can awaken the power of purpose. Sharing her personal journey through loss and survival, she reveals how pain can become a catalyst for creativity, clarity, and healing. Through raw honesty and hope, Maryam invites audiences to see grief not as an ending, but as a teacher guiding us toward who we are meant to become.
She further expands on the idea that grief reshapes our identity and opens a path to deeper self understanding. Maryam helps audiences recognize the courage that emerges in the quiet moments after loss, showing how reflection and creativity can become anchors while rebuilding a life. This keynote offers space for compassion, renewal, and the possibility of discovering purpose in the most unexpected places.

Storytelling is more than art it is medicine. In this talk, Maryam helps audiences uncover the healing potential of their own stories. Drawing on her work as a screenwriter, actor, and educator, she demonstrates how sharing truth through story transforms not only the storyteller but everyone who listens.
She expands on the practical ways individuals can shape life experiences into narrative power, offering approachable tools for accessing emotional truth. Maryam shows how stories create connection, dismantle silence, and guide us toward meaning. This keynote encourages every listener to honor their past, reimagine their present, and use story as a bridge toward personal and collective healing.

A creative deep dive into using personal experience as narrative power. Maryam walks attendees through how to channel emotion, experience, and truth into cinematic storytelling helping writers and creatives transform vulnerability into visionary art.
She continues by showing how to work with memory and emotion in a way that both protects the artist and strengthens the story. Maryam shares techniques from her own creative process, illustrating how to turn moments of struggle into compelling characters, dramatic tension, and narrative purpose. This keynote empowers writers to embrace the fullness of their lived experience and use it to create work that resonates with authenticity and impact.

Maryam shares her personal story of survival from diagnosis to discovery. This talk is a living testimony of resilience, showing how courage, faith, and storytelling helped her rewrite her narrative and reclaim her joy.
She deepens this journey by exploring the emotional landscape of illness, motherhood, and grief, revealing the inner work required to rise after life altering change. Maryam highlights the role creativity played in rebuilding her voice and identity, offering insights that uplift those navigating their own uncertainty. Audiences leave with renewed strength and a clearer sense of how to move from surviving into a fuller, more awakened way of living.

In this empowering talk, Maryam Myika Day guides artists, writers, and storytellers to uncover their authentic voice and express it with confidence. Through her work as a screenwriter, actor, and founder of Steal the School for Screenwriting STS, she shares practical tools for silencing self doubt, embracing vulnerability, and creating from truth. This keynote reminds every creative that their story is their superpower and their voice is the key to unlocking it.
Maryam expands on how to develop a sustainable creative practice, build trust in one’s intuition, and navigate the challenges of sharing personal work with the world. She offers grounded strategies and heartfelt motivation, helping creatives reconnect with purpose and show up for their artistry with courage and clarity.

Creativity does not have an expiration date it evolves. In this inspiring keynote, Maryam Myika Day invites audiences to rediscover their creative purpose beyond expectations, timelines, and fear. Drawing from her own reinvention and creative rebirth after 40, Maryam shares how embracing life’s second act can lead to bold storytelling, new opportunities, and deeper authenticity.
This talk is both a love letter and a call to action for anyone ready to dream again proof that it is never too late to start, create, or begin anew. Maryam continues by highlighting how lived experience becomes a creative advantage, offering richness and perspective that younger versions of ourselves could never access. She encourages audiences to shift from limitation to possibility and to see midlife as a powerful moment to expand, express, and evolve.