Exhibit B
Portrait & declaration
Portrait by J. Hardesty · Scottsdale AZ · June 2024
“My life has been a long argument with staying down.”
I speak about resilience, recovery, and what it takes to keep getting up. To audiences who have lived through hard things, and the leaders who have been tasked with helping them.
I tell my story.
There have been many lessons along the way, more than one room can hold.
If my proposal has landed on your desk:
I've failed at more things than most people attempt, and I've gotten back up from all of them. I'm choosing to leave the specifics to the bio, and I'll tell them plainly when the audience needs to know. The work I do on stage is not about the failures themselves. It's about what it takes to get back up, again and again, when staying down seems like the easiest option.
I speak to those still in the middle of their circumstances, and to the people responsible for what comes next. Sometimes both, in the same room, without choosing sides.
Every audience is approached with intention. I tell the truth. I will always gravitate towards rooms where words matter, and where they can change a mind, even just one.
With Respect,
Brian Mathrusse
“My life has been a long argument with staying down.”
Every talk is built for the room, drawn from a body of source material developed over years of structured work on this story. The catalog is always growing.