The Power of Imperfection: My Journey to the Global Mental Health and Wellness Elites Awards 2025

Embracing My Journey

Before watching it, I encourage you to first consider this...

The irony of being the sole keynote speaker at the global Mental Health and Wellness Elites Awards 2025 is that I was the least educated in the room. Yet, my results are why they wanted to listen to me. They cannot achieve the results I have.

I mean, the world's most educated were in this room listening to little Marylin Schirmer from Flying Fish Point. I was the girl who wasn’t meant to amount to anything. As a child, I wasn’t even allowed to be in the same room as the rest of my family watching TV most nights. I was told I was useless and treated by my dad like chewing gum under his shoe throughout my childhood. Then, I went on to find someone worse than him, ensuring I continued to validate my worthlessness.

Overcoming Adversity

I was so influenced by these people that I believed I was far too worthless to deserve to exist. My father wanted me to feel that way; it gave him pleasure to be cruel.

I know I overshare about my past, but it’s relevant to the message. I hope it reaches the right people who need it most. You can change.

I have to thank my abusers. While they made the distance to happiness and self-worth a far greater feat, they also led me to create a way for anyone to achieve the same—quickly, painlessly, on purpose, and for good.

May he be watching from wherever he is, seeing that he didn't succeed in making me hate myself forever. However, he did give me enough reason to help others who also struggle with self-value, emotional suffering, or past hurts to transform.

While he’s ingrained in my DNA and childhood memories, some of you might have faced similar challenges. I want you to know you are capable of being and doing whatever you desire if you want it badly enough.

You Can Heal!

You can heal it! YOU ARE BORN FOR MORE!

The irony here is a different type of inspiration than most aspire to in life. What if you don’t have to do everything the right way? What if you can just be yourself, like I am in delivering my speech—raw, real, and imperfect? You can win the hearts of others and let go of the need to learn to be a speaker first.

You have a voice, and you have a heart that cares about the message. Let go of the HOW and trust yourself. (I happen to know a shortcut for you.) You were born to be YOU, not to be perfect.

Breaking the Mold

Instead of needing PhDs, I earned my stripes by speaking to some of the world’s best in the mental health and wellness industry. I did this by going against the grain of 'shoulds', caring about who we are here to help, and trusting my gut—even when it meant being hated for it.

I used my survivor, hyper-vigilant brain to notice a problem that others hadn’t even seen. I cared deeply to solve it. That drove me to set about solving it, knowing I could because I had managed to do so.

I allowed myself the freedom to not be influenced by those I knew were more educated than me.

They loved telling me I was a fluke, not a success, even when year after year, I outperformed 99.99% of leaders and consultants in up to ten countries. More than one million women consultants had the same opportunity, yet I realized I had something special. I had to tell myself, “NO, THEY ARE 'ALL' WRONG.”

That’s hard to do when surrounded by people who saw you as an underdog but were jealous of my results. They wanted what I had but didn’t see what I had going for me. Hopefully, you can see it in this speech: THE POWER OF IMPERFECTION.

The Reality of Personal Development

These experts and leaders didn’t care as much as I did to fix the problem I observed in personal development and mental health. No matter the therapy or personal development program, at least 80% of women, therapists, and top leaders would revert back to the issues they paid to fix. This included those delivering the methods who denied it, choosing instead to believe they were exceptions to the rule.

I had almost two decades of observational evidence at the time, despite some trying to convince me otherwise. No, they were in the 80%.

I knew it was fruitless to argue with those proud of their modalities or those running big coaching and training institutes. I was paying up to $1000 an hour for coaching 13-14 years ago. They took me further away from success, if anything.

I cared far more about the everyday women they let down. Women already feel like failures, let alone keeping the secret that they failed at therapy or modalities they expected to work. I’m for the people, not any industry or profession.

Sharing My Speech

I held back from sharing my actual speech for several reasons.

1. I broke every professional speaker rule in the book in true Maz style. I know better, but I didn’t do better. I decided to go in with my passion and message, aiming to connect soul to soul.

When I focus on doing a talk 'right', I lose my flow as an intuitive person. Most of why I needed to speak perfectly was because I had already gained recognition the night before. Plus, I choose not to be a role model of perfection. Instead, I’m a role model of how to do everything wrong according to the rule books and still get results.

I’m no one special; I’m ordinary. I have severe ADHD and waffling tendencies as a very unconscious leader. This is how I created CREATRIX®. I hope that everyday people with big messages can say to themselves, “If she can, I can too. I don’t have to spend a million dollars trying to be perfect or get it all right FIRST.”

2. While many of my followers are everyday people, most are professionals. This casual, authentic, imperfect speaking style gives them an illusion of not being good enough to take the time to listen. Judgement often happens before they hear the main message. Most of those people are in teacher mode, not student mode. They won’t hear the message because they think they know it all.

3. My talk goes for 30 minutes.

But here it is anyway. It’s never easy to put into public what was meant only for those in the room who cared more about the message than the messenger. In a room like that, they are open, just as my speech was meant to gain insight they might not have had. For me, it was about connection and being true to myself.

Let me know what you learn that you didn’t know before if you get through it.

Watch my talk to the world Elites in Mental Health & Wellness here

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