Ep 96: Turn Lived Experience into Booked and Paid Keynotes with Jason Blyth

November 4, 2025

Turn Lived Experience into Booked and Paid Keynotes with Jason Blyth

Jacqueline sits down with Jason Blyth, a speaker whose powerful redemption story reveals what it means to reclaim the authorship of your life.

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If you’ve been “telling your story” and not getting paid, this episode will feel like putting on glasses for the first time.

In this episode, Jacqueline sits down with Jason Blyth, a speaker whose powerful redemption story reveals what it means to reclaim the authorship of your life. Together, they explore the difference between cathartic storytelling and market-ready speaking — and why the power of choice is what turns lived experience into a keynote that gets you booked.

You’ll discover how to pick one clear message and stay in it, avoid trauma bonding with your audience, make confident decisions about what to share (and what to leave out), and build the self-belief to take your talk from draft to demand.

This is a masterclass in choosing authorship over autopilot and turning hard-won lessons into a keynote that truly changes lives.

Inside, you’ll learn how to:

  • Share lived experience without trauma bonding by leading listeners back to safety and action (02:22)
  • Reclaim authorship of your story with the “pen test” (03:29)
  • Align mission and keynote so your talk builds momentum for the bigger change you want to create (05:29)
  • Use the hero or villain fork to transform pain into positioning your audience can act on (09:19)
  • Beat the influencer myth and create outsized impact even without a massive platform (10:55)
  • Choose the single most powerful message, believe in your structure, and keep repeating it until it lands (15:08)
  • Share hard backstories without centering yourself so the audience keeps the focus on the lesson, not the biography (16:32)
  • Overcome the voice that says “stay quiet” so you can deliver with authority (17:54)
  • Share wisely without trauma bonding (19:06)
  • “Recalibrate your compass” by surrounding yourself with trusted pros (20:40)
  • Find the right room for the right version of your voice (21:00)
  • Channel intensity into impact and turn former chaos into disciplined, high-leverage delivery that moves rooms (22:26)
  • Codify resolve into talk structure, offers, and next steps (25:17)

You don’t need more tactics. You need a decision. 

Choose a single message. Shape it for safety and impact. Then move. 

If this episode lit a fire under your keynote, share it with a speaker friend who needs that same push. Remember, your story isn’t the product. Your choices are.

QUOTES

“I spent my entire life believing that someone else would save me, some kind of authority system, some government agency, some person would come in and step in and change my life for me. And I essentially gave away the authorship of my life. And I speak a lot about reclaiming the pen.”  – Jason Blyth

“It is the power of choice. Every hero, every superhero and every super villain, has an origin story of pain. Superhero or Villain, it’s just the path they choose.” – Jason Blyth

“As brilliant as everyone is, there’ll be reasons why not everyone actually makes it. And it’s nothing to do with your product or your experience. It’s everything to do with your belief and your momentum” – Jacqueline Brooker

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ABOUT JASON BLYTH

Jason Blyth isn’t your typical speaker—he’s the torchbearer. A former international athlete, he won multiple national titles, international medals, and placed top-10 at the Junior World Championships. As a musician he’s featured on a track with Ludacris and recorded with world-renowned producers behind Linkin Park, Macy Gray,and Snoop Dogg—and that was just the warm-up.

Born to a brain-injured woman after a sexual assault, Jason had his first psychology appointment at two when his mum tried to kill him. He left home at fifteen, quit school at sixteen, and built a life off one repeating choice: take back the pen and write a different ending to your story. His message is sharp and simple—pain isn’t here to break you; it creates who you could become. Now at thirty-something, he’s lived more lives than most cats.Jason knows how to claw your way out of hell—just don’t tell the devil he stole the map!

WHERE TO FIND JASON BLYTH

WHERE TO FIND JACQUELINE BROOKER

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