Exhibit B
Portrait & declaration
Portrait by J. Hardesty · Scottsdale AZ · June 2024
“There is nothing noble about the bottom. The miracle is getting out with enough of yourself left to speak.”
I speak about resilience, recovery, and what it takes to keep getting up. To audiences who have lived through hard things, and the leaders responsible for helping them.
One life. More lessons than one room can hold.
If my proposal has found its way to your desk:
I came back from a place most people don't return from. The specifics are in my bio, and I'll tell them plainly when your audience asks. But the work I do on stage isn't about the worst of what happened. It's about what it takes to rise, again and again, when staying down would be easier.
I speak to those still in the middle of difficult things, and to the people responsible for what happens next. Sometimes both, in the same room, without choosing sides.
Every audience is approached with care. I tell the truth. I am interested in rooms where words matter, and where they can move something, even a little.
Respectfully,
Brian Mathrusse
“There is nothing noble about the bottom. The miracle is getting out with enough of yourself left to speak.”
Every talk is built for the room, drawn from a body of source material developed over two years of structured work on this story. There is no fixed catalog. There is one body of work, shaped to the audience in front of it.