Let’s foster mental toughness & courageous hearts to achieve your most audacious goals.
Achieve peak performance for your team, organization, and community using lessons I learned from rowing 2,700 miles alone across the Pacific and my 14-year journey to become an elite endurance athlete.
Get provocative, empowering, activating inspiration from Tez Steinberg as your next speaker.
Empowering
I wasn’t born an ocean rower or endurance athlete. I chose to become one. And although you may not want to row an ocean, you surely hold some tender dream, where your greatest future awaits you. And you know what? Your dream is completely possible! My journey from experiencing depression 14 years ago to becoming an elite athlete shows that with the right attitude and preparation, anything is possible. That’s why I share honest, empowering stories to help you understand that you can do – and become – anything you decide.
Provocative
The way to reach truly audacious goals is to grow into the person who can achieve them. In other words, achieving your dreams is not just about creating audacious goals, but most of all, cultivating your focus and passion for growth. To actively challenge your (limiting) beliefs, stay open to new ideas, and embrace the discomfort of change. In every Tez Talk, I offer unexpected stories to shift audiences’ assumptions about what’s possible, while guiding them to nurture their growth-mindsets.
Activating
Ambition is good fuel, but it’s not what propelled me 2,700 miles across the Pacific. It was my commitment to take action — day by day, stroke by stroke, long before I ever put my boat in the ocean — that turned the dream into reality. As a dreamer and a do-er, I’ve honed a wide set of personal, mental and leadership skills that I openly offer to audiences to help them grow from ambition to action.
Set a goal so big, you have to grow into the person who can achieve it.
Talk Topics to Turn Ambition Into Action & Unleash Your Inner Power
Resilience and grit are essential to accomplishing any meaningful goal. In fact, grit has been shown to be the #1 driver of success in many situations. But is grit enough to achieve your dreams? And what is the most resilient form of personal grit? The answer may just change how you approach your biggest challenges in work, life and relationships.
Some things in life feel impossible to welcome. But what happens when you choose to say YES to the harshest setbacks? When you commit yourself to your goal - no matter the ups and downs - you’ll be amazed at what happens next.
Children in school often learn that setback means failure. Setbacks mean turn around and go home. Setbacks mean set smaller goals. But if Edison did that, we wouldn’t have electricity! As Edison once quipped, “I have not failed. I've just found ten thousand ways that won't work." I say it’s time to redefine setbacks —because no matter your challenge, setbacks can become your foundation and fuel for even greater success than you thought possible.
I believe one reason people often fail to fulfill their potential is because they view the world through a linear lens. They review past evidence before deciding their next steps, and then select an incremental goal. But the world doesn’t work that way! Change in ecology, economics, personal growth and more happens exponentially. Change compounds. When you adopt the “fractal mind technique” and decide to show up every day, you will see exponential growth in your results.
Life is short. Where do you want to go? What impact will you make? How will you make your actions count? And who will you inspire along the way? My journey with the ocean offers timeless lessons to support you in answering these questions and living your most fulfilled and dynamic life.
