Quick Q: How many opportunities are you missing because your story falls flat?
What would change if you could articulate your vision and sell your work authentically?
What doors would open when self-expression feels easy and lands wisely?
Join a group of global leaders for the live masterclass March 7, 9, or 14, on me.
I’ll share what I’ve taught CEOs, executives, and entrepreneurs inside my advisory; how to leverage one of the most under developed human skills - storytelling - for greater impact & influence.
If your success at work depends on your ability to communicate, you’ll want to RSVP & save a seat.
RSVP pronto🥂bravenewstory.com/masterclass
Riddles. Lies. Stories. Secrets. These are the real tools of teaching, @portal.ido , master movement teacher shared with me on the BRAVE NEW STORY show.
“ We’re living our life through lies - it’s the cement that holds everything together... they are the essence of any transmission. If you assume everything is a lie, now you are at work, now you are at practice, now you are on your way to understand.” Ido explains like only Ido can.
Ido Portal X @vikatalks
BRAVE NEW STORY EP 1 is LIVE!
Our conversation goes into new places offering tools that break open the head. Listen in for the greatest stories never told by one of the greatest teachers known.
Watch & subscribe ( link in bio) YouTube.com / ViKATALKS
#idoportal #podcast #interview #vikatalks #bravenewstory
Film & production @dannygoler
Graphics @waymoredown
Feeling stuck sucks. It’s also essential to growth. Here’s a bit about my story from corporate ladder climbing to creating my own lane. Rooting you forward wherever you are 🚀
Hair tells a story. Here’s mine: for nearly a decade, my curls have been every shade of electric purple to ocean blue. But why?
It started the eve before my 30th birthday party, watching @kate_winslet_official_ play Clementine in “ Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” In it, she sports a different hair color for a different chapter of her life.
It was revelatory. Here I was grieving the sudden death of the most important man in my life, my Deda, and feeling totally disoriented. Dying my hair electric purple symbolised a new chapter. After 5 years, I accidentally went blue and never turned back.
The flat truth? I loved this era of my life. Rocking bright colored hair invited strangers to start conversations, it made me feel powerful and beautiful. Years ago, I wanted so much to be an artist - and the blue hair sent that message before I could fully own it.
A mentor once told me I should consider toning down the blue, that it would be hard to be taken seriously for corporate speaking. It was loving advise that was also hard to hear. Would people really not hire me based on a different hair color? I was determined to prove that the work is louder than the hair. Within the year, I had the most successful streak of speaking and teaching, opening the Discovery Workshops at @ted ( the one blue head amongst 1,600 attendees). I’m proud that I never changed my creative expression to appease an audience or a pay check.
Today, I know I am an artist with or without wild blue hair. And it feels like a big new chapter just began, one where I return to my roots ( literally 😝) and move with an unstoppable sense of belonging as an artist.
I already feel lighter and brighter. Cheers to a brave new story as a brunette.
Extra thanks for the 5 hours of talent this took @davidhaircolorist 💓
Hello New & Old Friends!
You’re invited to the first ever FRESH CUT Story Salon - a space to share stories of meaning & celebrate the absurdity of life together.
Let’s share the stories that shaped us, the legends that moved us, the lessons that forged us in the fire of becoming.
It’s a space to practice not perform. Casual and conversational storytelling - nothing memorized or rehearsed.
The point is to reconnect to that which makes us human - to keep the craft of sharing wisdom through story alive as our ancestors have before us since the dawn of time.
WHEN: Thursday March 12 @ 19:30
WHERE: Gracia, BCN
BRING: Potluck dish & drink ( I’ll be cooking up a feast too)
Space is very limited. Please RSVP ASAP for an unforgettable eve!
with courage,
ViKA
The first time I buried this story, I felt it speed up the healing of a broken heart by half. Just a few weeks ago, I repeated it - and this time the brave new story felt even more true, more rapidly.
That’s what happens when storytelling becomes a healing modality- because it is. I see this in my own work, and I especially see this in working with my students.
The ones who understand how to leverage the power of story for internal transformation are empowered to make different choices. Their leadership transforms once their stories do.
It all starts with the stories we tell ourselves - and those we must consciously craft like a real craftsman would.
Often, I’ll journal on this: “What is a brave new story you will bury for a brave new story to come alive?”
Clarity follows.
Change feels right, not scary.
Actions from alignment compound into major growth.
There’s a whole lot more around this topic - this is a tiny morsel to wet your appetite.
If you want to see the whole second episode ViKA TALKS: IDO PORTAL - packed with mind opening concepts from @portal.ido - then write “ IDO” below and I will send it your way.
And if you care about meaningful media, follow @vikatalks on YouTube to be the first to see more.
( Extra grateful to @portal.ido for this conversation which I replay as a world class philosophy class often from a real one) #idoportal #vikatalks
“Everything happens for a reason” is something we hear a lot in the cancer world.
But honestly? That would be pretty f*cked up.
Illness isn’t fair. And it’s definitely not something anyone deserves.
So I brought this question to someone I deeply respect, @vikatalks . She’s a storyteller, narrative strategist, speaker, and one of those exceptional humans who helps people make sense of life’s most meaningful moments.
Because if anyone could help us see this differently, it would be her.
Listen to Episode 12 of the Live Like It Matters podcast to hear our full conversation!
#livelikeitmatters #wegotthis #cancersucks #everythinghappensforareason
Back on tour & it feels so good! San Fran, I’m coming for you next Tuesday Jan 20th @ 7PM for an unforgettable night!
Imagine if leadership development, public speaking, and narrative study had a party - that’s where the magic lives.
If you’re in SF - drop me a line. If you’ve got friends in SF, tag them below por favor.
Drop an “ RSVP” and I’ll send you the link. Can’t wait to uplevel your communication skills while having a blast.
Can we live without words? Can we imagine that there are moments of non verbal experience that are equally valuable?
“ Not much exists in our day to day; moment to moment experience beyond words - and that’s a devastating thing.” says the man who created movement practice as we know it globally today.
His name is Ido Portal - and he is one of the most transformative minds of our time. From running his own capoeira studio at 15 to training the professional beasts of our times - Ido eats, lives, and breathes practice.
He’s poured 30 years of practice - and as many years teaching - to understand and develop movement as practice. The flat truth? There is no movement practice without uttering his name.
Beyond the many reasons he impacts universally is that the truth of who he is, is felt: he is master who is first a student, naturally. And that’s why he’s also a solid dialogue dance partner - listen to 1:47:49 to understand what he does.
May you savour this ViKA TALKS conversation - a tradition now- shot after I train inside Ido & Odelia’s two week movement training summer camp in Berlin.
Keen to share your favorite part of the talk? Comment on the YouTube.com/vikatalks
Find the show on YouTube.com/@vikatalks or as a podcast on @applemusic & @spotify
Details [email protected] on that training camp & online
with courage!
ViKA
How many conversations do you listen to that crack open your mind?
Imagine sitting down with Ido Portal for 2.5 hours and asking every curiosity. It’s like riding beside a wild beast of a mind - totally exhilarating and goes down as one of the most meaningful conversations of my life.
Ido is widely recognised as the founder of movement culture - and he’s impossible to define. For 30 years he’s trained thousands from MMA’s Connor McGregor to NBA, NFL, MLB & beyond with his signature methods.
For me, Ido isn’t just a master teacher - he’s a philosopher in disguise. Movement is the vehicle through which he teaches the philosophy of life. He does this with a level of care and genuine service that is unmatched.
This conversation is for those who seek to break conditioned ways of thinking, to understand how to interface with truths, how to sharpen one’s sword through practice. Above all, this is for those who are hungry for a taste of real transformation.
Legendary stories & absurdity await.
ViKA TALKS + IDO PORTAL Part 2 is live on YouTube.com/@vikatalks
You know the drill: for YT - subscribe, comment, & be the first to know when Part 3 drops.
Stay curious, friends!
