Take the Mic Speaker Intensive: Jersey City, NJ
Thursday, April 9, 2026 | 9:00 AM- 5:00 PM
Hyatt Regency on the Hudson | 2 Exchange Place | Jersey City, NJ
What the day includes:
Networking Breakfast & Intentional Connections: Arrive to a beautifully curated breakfast where you’ll mingle, meet your fellow speakers and attendees, and start the day grounded in community.
Opening Welcome & Mini Keynote from Guest Expert Yarona Boster Lauren kicks off the day, followed by a welcome keynote from our workshop guest, Yarona Boster, who will set the tone for what's possible when you own your voice.
Master Workshop with Yarona Boster:
Embodied Communication: Real Time Skills for Presence, Clarity, and Connection
This workshop brings the keynote concepts into the body through guided practice, emotional intention, and real time coaching. Participants work with their own material and receive supportive, precise feedback that helps them shift long held habits. These include rushing, tightening, overstuffing stories, using fillers, slipping into overly complex language, or disconnecting from their bodies.
This is a working workshop that blends teaching, practice, and transformation. It is designed for high achievers who want to communicate with clarity and authority without losing their natural voice. Through movement, breathwork, vocal work, and structured speaking exercises, participants experience what it feels like to speak from grounded presence rather than pressure.
Core Skills Covered
- Reading the room: How to tell if a message is landing through nonverbal cues, micro engagement, and energy shifts.
- Nervous system regulation: How to stay present instead of leaving the body or rushing ahead of thoughts.
- Emotional intention: How to guide the audience’s emotional experience without performing or forcing confidence.
- Clarity versus complexity: How to speak clearly without feeling like they are dumbing themselves down.
- Over-polishing recovery: How to interrupt real time over-editing and return to a natural voice.
- Natural speaking rhythm: How to match the voice to presence instead of internal pressure.
- Play and movement: How to loosen rigidity and spark creativity through embodied communication.
- Body language and semiotics: How to align gestures, posture, and facial expression with the message and stop unconscious physical fillers.
- Vocal variety: Tonality, Pitch, pacing, volume, rhythm, stress, duration, and pausing used with intention.
- Reducing fillers: Verbal, vocal, and physical fillers replaced with grounded silence.
- Storytelling clarity: How to avoid overstuffing stories and choose one clear takeaway.
- Acknowledging without apologizing: How to own the moment without handing nerves to the audience.
Workshop Outcomes
Participants leave with:
- A grounded, embodied sense of presence
- Tools to regulate nerves and stay connected to themselves
- The ability to read an audience and adjust in real time
- A clearer and more concise way of delivering their message
- Awareness of their physical, vocal, and cognitive habits and how to shift them
- A natural speaking rhythm that feels confident without being forced
- A deeper understanding of how clarity, simplicity, and authenticity build authority
- Real time coaching experience that creates immediate transformation
- A feeling of lightness, relief, and the sense of “I can actually do this”
Lunch by the Hyatt Regency: Chef-crafted cuisine from the Hyatt Regency- served alongside powerful conversation and connection.
Afternoon Speaker Showcase: Your moment. Your mic. Each of the 10 speakers will deliver a mini-keynote (up to 10 minutes) for an intimate, supportive audience. You've done the work- this is where you get on stage and own it.
Every speaker walks away with:
- Professionally edited video footage of your full talk
- On-stage photography throughout your performance
- Written and video testimonials from fellow attendees
Recharge Break: After the showcase, enjoy a snack & refresh moment to reset your energy and prepare for closing of the day.
Closing Circle & Celebratory Cocktail Reception: We end with intention. A beautiful, grounding closing circle brings the day full circle- reflect, integrate, and celebrate your breakthroughs.
Then, enjoy a final hour cocktail reception where you can:
- Toast to the work you accomplished
- Deepen connections with your fellow collective community
- Capture promotional images that reflect exactly where you are now: confident, visible, and in motion
This is a high-impact day designed with intention. You'll leave a stronger speaker- with sharper clarity, meaningful connection, earned confidence, and content ready to use immediately.
