SPEAKER BIO

Kelly Diels spent seventeen years as a marketer and CMO for the personal brands and self-help authors who sell women advice — she's ghost-written the books and run the campaigns, and watched the same advice keep brilliant women stuck. She's living proof of the alternative.

Kelly Diels teaches women to stop fixing themselves and start winning — even when the game is rigged.

She comes by it honestly. A scholarship kid and the first in her family to finish university, she became a divorced single mother of two buying groceries twenty dollars at a time, with no child support and no one on the way to save her. In her forties — late, but fast — she wrote her way out: she put her daughters through university (tuition is her proudest flex), built a business, and now the women thought leaders who were once her heroes hire her as their CMO and ask her what to do. Along the way she fell ridiculously in love, built a new life between Canada and Mexico, bought three acres, and lost more than two hundred pounds — three hundred and eighty, she'll tell you, if you count the ex.

She didn't do any of it by manifesting, journaling, fixing her mindset or making a vision board (but she does love a good vision board). She did it by learning to see the invisible structures shaping her life — the ones she never agreed to — and, over and over, refusing them. That's the move at the heart of her work: Yeah, No. Yeah, I see what's happening. No, I refuse it. Her forthcoming book, Yeah, No, and her TRUEˣ self-coaching tool teach women to run it for themselves.