keynote · 45 min
The #NinjaPoet Mindset
Discipline, creativity, physical challenge, and resilience — from the world's first #NinjaPoet.
What happens when you train your body and your craft with the same stubborn discipline.
Sam is the world's first #NinjaPoet — a two-time American Ninja Warrior competitor who's also a published poet and professor. This keynote pulls from both worlds to talk about discipline, resilience, and pushing past the limits we assume are fixed.
It's energetic, personal, and full of stories from the course and the stage. A memorable fit for any audience working on grit, performance, and showing up.
What the room walks away with
- How physical training rewires what you believe you can do
- Bringing an athlete's discipline to creative and professional work
- Failing in public and coming back anyway
- A repeatable mindset for hard things
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