- Amy Thurman - Keynote Speaker | Author | holding space expert
Resilient Futures Nonprofit, Founder - Educational and Community Renewal
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!
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Amy was named one of the 10 Women Who Turned Adversity Into Empire, alongside Mel Robbins!
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About Amy
Keynote Speaker | Best-Selling Author | Holding Space Expert
For over a decade, Amy Thurman lived with a broken neck, a sheared brainstem, and a traumatic brain injury, undiagnosed for six months. That experience almost shattered her and caused her to end her life. Instead, it became a doorway. Not just to healing, but to something deeper: a calling she couldn’t ignore.
After spending nearly a year bedridden and battling hopelessness, Amy made a life-altering decision:
To stop trying to become who she used to be, and start uncovering who she was always meant to be.
Through that journey of radical resilience, reinvention, and healing, she created the Polish the Mirror™ Framework, a transformational path designed to help others release fear, reconnect with their truth, and live with deep authenticity.
Today, Amy doesn’t just inspire people, she reintroduces them to themselves. She has a gift for helping others see through the noise, the roles, and the expectations, to reconnect with the version of themselves they’ve forgotten. She holds up a mirror, not to reflect who they’ve become, but to remind them of who they’ve always been.
Amy is a best-selling author, keynote speaker, educator, and visionary known for helping individuals, teams, and communities move from fear-based survival to authentic, purpose-driven living.
Through her groundbreaking frameworks, Polish the Mirror™ and the S.P.A.C.E. Method, Amy guides people back to themselves through the radical, healing power of Holding Space. First, she models it. Then, she teaches it. Because true transformation begins when you stop trying to fix yourself, and finally start meeting yourself with compassion, clarity, and presence.
Her work empowers people to uncover their worth, lead with confidence, and create meaningful, lasting impact, personally and professionally.
Known for her out-of-the-box thinking, heart-centered strategies, and mirror-like presence, Amy’s mission is both simple and powerful: To help people remember who they are, reclaim their voice, and lead lives of deep authenticity and joy.
Popular Keynotes & Workshops:
How to Fall Apart Without Losing Yourself
When failure becomes your greatest strength
Holding Space: The Most Powerful Skill We Were Never Taught
How presence heals what pressure never could
The Mirror Effect
Building resilient teams through authentic leadership
The Polish the Mirror™ Framework
A transformational path to clarity, confidence, and connection
Creating Connected Schools
Bridging the gap between educators, students, parents & communities
Whether she’s speaking on stage, consulting with teams, or working one-on-one, Amy invites every audience to look inward, rediscover who they are beneath the surface, and Polish the Mirror of their lives.
Ready to ignite clarity, connection, and confidence in your school, business, or community?
Let’s Polish the Mirror together.
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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"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
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