About
Tricia Rose Burt
If you have ever felt the pull between the life you are supposed to live and the one you actually want, or watched someone freeze in front of an audience, you already understand the problem Tricia has spent her career solving. She helps people find the story that is already inside them, say it out loud, and mean it.
Meet Tricia
Tricia Rose Burt is a speaker, storyteller, podcast host, and consultant who spent nearly 15 years with some of America's top institutions, including Fidelity Investments and Harvard Business School, before making a series of increasingly bold pivots that took her from the boardroom to an artist's studio in Ireland, from there to the New York stage, and eventually to a microphone of her own. She is a storyteller and instructor for The Moth, a TEDx speaker, host of the award-winning No Time to Be Timid podcast, and founder of No Time to Be Timid Productions. Her work, whether she is on stage, in a corporate boardroom, or behind a podcast mic, is built on one conviction: the riskiest thing you can do is play it safe.
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Where it Began
Tricia knew early on that her joy came from connecting with audiences. But raised to follow the safe path, she took a decades-long detour from her calling.
Timeline
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The Corporate Years
Nearly 15 years with some of America's top business institutions, including Fidelity Investments and Harvard Business School. She built a career, a reputation, and a growing sense that there had to be more.
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The Pivot: Art School
Enrolled at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The beginning of a different kind of education, one that had nothing to do with spreadsheets.
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Ireland
In one week in her mid-30s: quit the job, sold the car, gave up the apartment, cashed out the retirement savings, and moved to Ireland to become an artist. Spent a decade as an award-winning visual artist. Did not look back.
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The Stage
The 2008 market crash forced another pivot. In her late 40s, Tricia wrote, produced, and performed How to Draw a Nekkid Man (formerly I Will Be Good), a one-woman show about her transformation from executive to artist. Official selection of the New York International Fringe Festival. Featured in the FringeNYC Encore Series and New York's United Solo Festival.
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The Moth & Storytelling
Her story, excerpted from “How to Draw a Nekkid Man”, aired on The Moth podcast and was downloaded by more than a quarter million people. She spent the next 15 years telling stories and teaching storytelling with MothWorks, the corporate arm of The Moth, and serving her own clients, working with everyone from nuns to private equity firms.
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No Time to Be Timid
In her 60s, launched the award-winning No Time to Be Timid (a Signal Award winning podcast) and a movement of the same name. A platform for artists, entrepreneurs, and anyone who makes something out of nothing.
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No Time to Be Timid Productions
Founded No Time to Be Timid Productions, producing creative projects ranging from special events to short and feature-length films, continuing to shape stories worth telling.
