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Darryll Stinson is the co-founder of Seeding Greatness, a movement of leaders restoring the planet and helping humanity to heal through their stories and transformational services. As a former Division 1 athlete, Darryll overcame multiple suicide attempts to become a multiple best-selling author, and 2xTEDx speaker with more than 2 million views. His accolades as a Top 100 athlete (2008), award winning higher ed communications professional,  #9 Suicide Awareness Speaker (2023), and TEDx organizer (2022-present) attest to the impact of his work.

 

He’s coached hundreds of speakers to reach millions of people while growing themselves and their business at the same time. When he's not coaching or captivating audiences, Darryll enjoys rapping, reading, and spending quality time with his wife Brittany, four children Ava, Arianna, Amaya, Isaiah, and dog, Magic.

Speaking Topics

You’re Enough! A Self-C.A.R.E. Strategy to Transform Stress Into Success

According to The World Health Organization anxiety and depression cost the global workforce $1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion U.S. dollars) per year in lost productivity! In addition, more than 50% of U.S. workers are not engaged at work as a result of stress. This presentation examines the causes of these mental health challenges and outlines a strategy that all attendees can use to decrease stress, reverse burnout, and increase productivity.


Throughout this experience, participants will:

  • Learn how to develop a system of self-care that supports their desired level of success using Darryll’s proven C.A.R.E. framework.
  • Identify and reduce/eliminate causes of their stress, depression, anxiety, etc.
  • Rewire limiting beliefs to optimize their performance and productivity
  • Reframe mental health stigmas to take pride in their wellness (vs. feel shame)
  • Learn how to be consistent and patient with themselves in their growth process

Vulnerability is the New Currency: How Vulnerable Storytelling Can Increase Connection, Sales & Impact

Effective communication is a valuable skill that should be continuously developed in various areas such as employee training, sales closing, email writing, social media posting, conducting successful meetings, and building closer relationships. But there's one aspect of communication that is often neglected, and that is the power of vulnerable storytelling. By sharing personal experiences, individuals can build stronger connections with their colleagues and clients, resulting in more successful outcomes. This talk will delve into the dynamics of vulnerability and storytelling and how attendees can use them to improve their communication skills.


Throughout this experience, participants will:

  • Learn the evolution of communication from informative to vulnerability
  • Gain the skill of telling vulnerable stories in all facets of communication
  • Learn how to use storytelling to increase sales and expand impact
  • Connect deeper with themselves and others

 

Developing the Courage to Lead From Your Highest Self

True leadership emerges not from a position or title, but from a place deep within ourselves — a place that I call our "highest self." This speech offers a roadmap for aspiring and seasoned leaders alike, empowering them to rise above conformity, inspire others, and create a world where leadership emanates from the depths of one's unique identity.


Throughout this experience, participants will:

  • Connect more deeply with themselves through self-discovery, active listening, and spending time in nature
  • Learn how to be a more effective and courageous leader through personal growth strategies
  • Understand the value of the expression and the role it plays in effective leadership

Rising to Greatness: 3 Key Principles to Exceed Your Career and Life Goals

After a back injury ruined Darryll’s journey to the NFL, he was forced to enter the workforce unprepared and under qualified. Thankfully, after surviving a severe depression that left him in psychiatric care, Darryll rose to lead one of the largest communication projects for a 450 million dollar higher education institution by following 3 key principles to career and life success. He’s since used those same principles to become a bestselling author, 2xTEDx speaker, and one of the leading speaking coaches of our era. Participants will learn how to become a top performer in their industry, not just their job, and transform stress and overwhelm into insight, innovation, and opportunity. Darryll will help audience members understand how to move beyond being overlooked, undervalued, and underpaid, to being highly paid and sought after. A key takeaway will be how to build a premium network to accelerate personal and professional goals.

Throughout this transformative keynote experience, participants will learn:

  • How to become a top performer in their industry, not just their job
  • How to move beyond being overlooked, undervalued and underpaid to being highly paid and sought after
  • How to build a premium network to accelerate personal and professional goals
  • How to transform stress and overwhelm into insight, innovation and opportunity

Hold The Rope! Establishing a new level of ownership in a growing movement

Whether you’re in a season of growth and expansion, or you’re (re)building at a slower pace, everyone desires to maximize the potential of their team. This engaging experience utilizes storytelling, music, interaction, reflection, discussion, and a giant rope to introduce participants to a three-step ownership process unlike anything you’ve heard before. Throughout this experience, participants will engage in exercises designed to empower them to re-ignite their passion, increase their contribution, and more powerfully own the progress of the organization regardless of their role. Darryll will share key insight helpful to discover how to turn busyness and stress into innovation, opportunities, personal growth and/or organizational expansion.

Throughout this experience, participants will:

  • Engage in exercises designed to empower them to re-ignite their passion, increase their contribution, and more powerfully own the progress of the organization regardless of their role
  • Discover how to turn busyness and stress into innovation, opportunities, personal growth and/or organizational expansion

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  • What is your favorite quote? Sometimes you have to believe in somebody else's belief in you before you can believe in yourself.
  • Are there any moments that stand out as having a significant impact on your career? +Having 3 daughters, 1 son, and a dog! +Multiple best-selling author + Placing top 50 in 2022 Great American Speak off hosted by Pete Vargas and Grant Cardone +3xTEDx speaker +Won 2018 Gw
  • Outside of your profession do you have any hobbies/interests? Reading, Movies, Entertainment, Sporting Events
  • Who do you look up to as a mentor and why? Bishop Td Jakes, Craig Groeschel, Travis Hall, John Maxwell, Darrel Stinson, Eric Thomas, Martin Luther King, Abraham Lincoln, Michelle Obama, Oprah and Keon Henderson because they are all pe
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