MessageTherapy Live!

Live events for organizations, conference keynotes, and company functions

When Marketing Fails, Try Therapy

Hooked on jargon? Struggling to make your message matter?

It’s time to put your brand on the couch.

MessageTherapy Live! is a fast-paced, laugh-a-little, learn-a-lot session where startup survivor horror stories meet the science of saying something that sticks. Whether you’re a founder, a product marketer, or a clever soloist with a big idea but a fuzzy pitch, this session helps you trade blank stares for blank checks.

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What is it?

A game-changing communication experience built for technical teams, smart marketers, and all the nerds who want their message to hit harder.

Choose your format

  • Workshop Mode

  • Gameshow Mode

A hands-on clinic using the Heart-Head-Gut model and the Message Pyramid framework to craft core messages from first principles.

Best-suited for:

  • Strategy Offsites
  • Team-Building Seminars
  • Startup Cohorts

A high-energy on-stage competition where pre-selected audience members duke it out with wordcraft challenges, guided by classical philosophy, gamified neuroscience, and a healthy dose of crowd cheer.

Best-suited for:

  • Conferences
  • Interactive Keynotes
  • Membership Associations

Perfect For

Founders & Startup Teams

Your tech rocks. Your story? Not so much.

MessageTherapy helps founders and scrappy startup teams turn raw ideas into razor-sharp messages that actually connect.

Growing Marketing Teams

Your brand is growing. Is your message?

Align content, campaigns, and positioning around a core that sticks. Ditch scattered taglines and build from first principles.

Professional Associations & Member Organizations

Your members are experts — now help them express it.

MessageTherapy Live! gives your community powerful, practical tools to communicate better, pitch smarter, and advocate with confidence.

Conference & Event Organizers

Looking for a talk that actually delivers takeaways?

This session blends laughs, neuroscience, and real workshop tools — with formats for both stage shows and breakout tracks.

Accelerators, Incubators & Cohorts

Mentorship is great. So is message clarity.

Equip your founders with a durable, scalable messaging framework they can use across pitch decks, websites, and sales calls — and do it in a way that’s actually fun.

Awards Programs & Showcases

Recognition starts with articulation.

Help nominees, finalists, and pitch participants learn how to position their work in ways that get noticed and remembered — before the judging even begins.

What you’ll learn

  • Why your messaging might be failing (hint: it’s not your audience).
  • How Aristotle, cavemen, and modern buyers all want the same thing.
  • How to balance emotion, logic, and trust using the Heart–Head–Gut method.
  • How to build a Message Pyramid that scales across channels (from elevator pitch to press release).
  • How gamification uncovers surprising truths — even about serious tech.

Participants walk away with

  • Your own Message Pyramid (built during the session).
  • A new framework to align teams across marketing, product, and sales.
  • Access to messaging tools — not templates — that flex to your voice.
  • Sample copies of the MessageDeck™ system (with options for physical kits).
  • A chance to win a signed copy of Be a Nerd That Talks Good — the book behind the therapy.

Booking and Options

This talk adapts to your audience:

  • 60-90 minute talk
  • Half-day or full-day workshops
  • Keynote + breakout format for conferences
  • Giveaways and raffle options.

Want everyone to walk away with a MessageDeck in hand or integrate the game show with your event theme? Let’s talk logistics.

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