With 25 years of business experience in publishing, marketing, communications, and sales, and a lifetime of working to understand limiting beliefs and self-sabotaging patterns, Maria Rea has a great appreciation for the day-to-day challenges that most experience not only in their business but in their lives. Passionate about living her highest potential, Maria specializes in the Irresistible Power of Storytelling; The stories you tell yourself, your inner critic, and how storytelling can captivate customers, influence audiences and transform your business. As a Transformational Leader and 2x Certified Business Coach, Maria guides those ready to play in a new level of energy and abundance so they may live, love, and lead in this time of growth. 

Maria is a Transformational Speaker, and Havard blu Talks Speaker. She has also spoken at multiple Women’s Events and Conferences and has been a guest on numerous radio shows, news programs, and podcasts.

My vision is to create a community of Storytellers who model integrity, inspire positive self-talk, and embrace uniqueness. I believe that together, we can create a world where everyone has a sense of purpose by rewriting their self-stories to transform their future, and celebrates living their very best lives.

Stories create your reality; in other words, you become your story. It all starts with closing the gap – the space between where you are and where you want and believe you can – be. The life you are living right now is the result of the many stories you tell yourself. So, if the stories you have been telling yourself have gotten you to where you are now, but you actually want to be somewhere else, then the question is, how do you change those stories? And what happens if you choose different ones?

Stories in business can help you to captivate, influence and transform your audience, customers, and clients. The goal of any business is to profitably deliver value to people by getting your product or service from point A (your business) to point B (the people who will use it). That’s it. Although there are many ways to achieve this, the overall goal itself is pretty simple. Simple but not easy.

How do you get people interested?

How do you get people to buy from you?

Interested in working with you?

The solution is to build a bridge strong enough to close the gap and to do that, you will need a captivating, influential, transformational Story.

Those who bridge the gap best – win.

If you can sell better, pitch better, build better, create better, and connect better – you win – period.