- Amy Thurman - AUTHENTICITY EXPERT | International Speaker | Author
Resilient Futures Nonprofit, Founder - Educational and Community Renewal
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amy featured with brenÈ brown in San Francisco WEekly!
Amy was named one of the 5 Resilient Women Rewriting the Rules of Business, alongside Brenè Brown!
amy featured with Mel robbins in San francisco Examiner!
Amy was named one of the 10 Women Who Turned Adversity Into Empire, alongside Mel Robbins!
About Amy
Authenticity Expert | International Speaker | Best-Selling Author
I help people measure the thing most of us overlook ... authenticity.
After living ten years with a broken neck and a sheared brainstem that went undiagnosed for six months, I had to rebuild my life from the inside out. That experience revealed a truth I now dedicate my work to proving: alignment can be measured, and measurable alignment transforms everything.
I’m an authenticity expert, best-selling author, and creator of Your Authenticity Score, a framework that evaluates how closely your life and behavior reflect your values, identity, and truth. In a world driven by automation and artificial intelligence, I believe the next frontier of intelligence is authentic intelligence, the ability to live, choose, and connect from alignment.
I teach individuals, caregivers, teams, and organizations how to turn presence, emotional clarity, and alignment into powerful tools for living, loving, and leading. This work shows that authenticity, when practiced intentionally, reduces burnout, strengthens relationships, improves communication, and rebuilds a sense of self that many people lose under pressure, responsibility, and survival.
As an international speaker, I’ve shared stages and media features alongside Brené Brown and Mel Robbins, appeared on a Times Square billboard, collaborated with leaders such as Lisa Nichols, and given talks around the globe, most recently at Oxford University in the UK.
I founded Resilient Futures, a nonprofit reimagining education through school–community collaboration, and I host the Holding Space with Authentically Amy podcast, where I explore how authenticity and holding space reshape identity, culture, and human connection.
Authenticity isn’t soft, it’s strategic. And when we learn to live from who we truly are, we don’t just change our outcomes, we change our lives and the lives of those around us.
Signature Talks:
· Your Authenticity Score: Why It Matters & How to Use It
· Holding S.P.A.C.E.: The Skill That Changes Everything
· The Authenticity Advantage: How Alignment Transforms the Way You Live, Love & Lead
NEW PODCAST and private Holding Space sessions!
To hold space means to offer someone a moment where they can show up fully without being judged, fixed, rushed, or expected to be anything other than human.
It’s a space where masks come off.
Where emotions are welcome.
Where silence is safe.
Where truth can rise without needing to be polished.
POLISH THE MIRROR BOOK 1: SELF-DISCOVERY NOW AVAILABLE!
A Reflective Coloring Workbook Series
This is not just a coloring book. It's a return to yourself.
Polish the Mirror - Book 1: Self-Discovery is the first in a four-part reflective coloring series designed to help you reconnect with who you are beneath the roles, expectations, and labels you've carried for far too long.
This reflective coloring workbook for adults blends the calming creativity of coloring with powerful tools for personal growth-including guided reflection questions, journal prompts, soul work activities, and real-life practices that help you embody what you're uncovering.
This series was born from the overwhelming response to the Polish the Mirror sections in Amy Thurman's memoir, "Finding My Hero Within". Readers asked for more, and this book is the answer. If those pages felt like a breath of fresh air, this book is an invitation to inhale deeper.
Get Your Copy Today
Whether you're just beginning your healing journey or simply craving a deeper connection with yourself, this book offers a sacred space to slow down, reflect, and begin to peel back the layers of who you've been told to be, so you can remember who you truly are. Because who you are isn't something you have to fix. It's something you get to uncover.
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Book Hub
"Finding My Hero Within"
Amy gifted copies of her best-selling book, "Finding My Hero Within", to celebrities, writers, directors and producers from The Emmys (pictured here with Mike Manning from This is Us, Days of Our Lives, Beyond the Gates, and more)!
Educational and Community Renewal
Resilient Futures nonprofit
Learn more about how Resilient Futures can help your school and community learn to work together while teaching students to be better prepared for a resilient life beyond the classroom.
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