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Born With No Limbs: I Didn't Want To Be Their Poster Child! Briel Adams-Wheatley
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Briel's Experience Giving Motivational Speeches
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The motivational speaking career comes into sharper and more unsettling focus here. Briel describes the mechanics of the act: a scripted fall-and-rise speech (literally — she falls over at the start), written by her father and a collaborator, delivered to audiences of thousands. She would black out the moment the curtain opened, perform, come offstage hyperventilating, and immediately switch back on for the meet and greet. Dancing was the only part of the performance that was truly hers — she fought to include it and found it the only honest moment in the show. Then, at a conference in San Diego in front of 10,000 people, a man whispered in her ear: 'I feel like you're not being honest about something.' That sentence did what years of internal suppression hadn't: it ended her relationship with public speaking. She could feel the mask slipping. And she knew it was only a matter of time before everyone else could too. [1] — Briel Adams-Wheatley "Briel delivered a scripted fall-and-rise speech written by her father and another person to audiences across the country, sometimes as larg…" 47:42 [2] — Briel Adams-Wheatley "The mask is slipping. They know. They know." 49:24
Briel delivered a scripted fall-and-rise speech written by her father and another person to audiences across the country, sometimes as large as 10,000 people. She blacked out every time the curtain opened. A stranger at a San Diego conference whispered that she seemed to be hiding something — and that moment ended her speaking career.
Briel gave a motivational speech at a conference in San Diego attended by 10,000 people, even while suppressing her true identity behind a public persona.
