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Frankie Rollins

Writer
Writing Coach
Founder & CEO of Fifth Brain Collective

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Speaker Description

Frankie Rollins is a creative dynamo building a world that welcomes people into their own throughlines, unblockages, and sense of self. Through writing workshops, 1-1 coaching, memberships, and webinars, she helps others access their fifth brain, their deep reservoir of expertise, experience, and values. Frankie is the founder of the Fifth Brain Collective and author of Do You Feel Like Writing?, The Grief Manuscript, and The Sin Eater & Other Stories.


Speaker Topics

The Spectacle of a Woman: How Owning the Experiences You've Had Makes You the Leader You Want to Be

Personal Development

What does it mean to be a spectacle? Not the cringeworthy kind, but the real kind: a vision, a marvel, something worth watching unfold. The spectacle you've lived is the foundation every good leader stands on, whether they know it yet or not. This talk is about learning to know it.


I have spent a lot of time in my life being a little bit chaotic, an occasional space cadet. I gained these qualities the hard way.


Growing up as a joint-custody kid who moved every two weeks, while my parents moved houses eight times in six years, I learned early that expectations were a luxury I couldn't afford. So I became a "make-do" girl instead. Cheerful, adaptable, 41 jobs (never fired, just couldn’t stay still), 7 states, 25 moves, and one survival skill grown as strong and supple as a feather: float. Never land. Make do. You never quite get everything you want, but you learn to be happy with whatever you get.


For a long time, that looked like chaos. From the inside, it was a masterclass in resilience, reinvention, and reading a room. The make-do girl is resourceful beyond measure, unshakeable in uncertainty, able to walk into a room full of strangers and find the current. These are not small things. These are exactly the things that make a leader worth following.


The only thing that I could trust and depend upon was my writing. In 2023, I left academia to build a business devoted to coaching writers, and I discovered that leading others requires something harder than shapeshifting: it requires knowing which version of yourself to show up as, and why. I learned that steadiness is not the enemy of wonder. It is the condition for it.


I share my story to model something I believe every leader needs to practice, the act of turning your own experiences into your resources. The chaotic, floating, make-do years were not a detour from becoming a leader. They were an education. And I want to help you find yours.


This talk is my invitation to stop editing your biography for the highlight reel and start examining it for the lift buried in the detours, the survival strategies, and skills you learned while taking the long way around.


Takeaway: The experiences you've been quietly apologizing for, or leaving off your LinkedIn, are often the very ones that make you a leader worth following. Whether you are leading now or growing into it, you will leave with a fresh lens for reading your own story and a clearer sense of how owning all of it, not just the polished parts, is what makes you the leader you are, and the leader you are still becoming.


Lead from Your Fifth Brain: Your Cognitive Blueprint

You already know more than you think you do. Not in a motivational poster way. In a real, lived, accumulated, hard-won way. This talk is about learning to trust your own brain as you move forward as leaders, CEOs, coaches.

I call it the Fifth Brain. It is the place where your expertise, your experiences, and your instincts have been quietly filing themselves away for years, building a knowledge bank so rich and specific that no one else on earth has one quite like it. Most of us walk right past it every day. This talk is about walking back toward it.

I want you to read your own story. To look at the throughlines, the patterns, and values that show up again and again across the chapters of your life, and recognize them for what they are: your cognitive blueprint.

I will walk you through a quick self-portrait, an inventory of your strengths, your eternal qualities, the personality traits and curiosities that have followed you everywhere, not to flatter you, but to show you what you are already working with. Because the most confident leaders are not the ones who have the most credentials. They are the ones who know themselves well enough to lead from the inside out.

This is not a writing workshop, though there will be writing prompts if you want them. You do not need to be a writer. You just need to be curious about who you are becoming, or who you want to become next.

Takeaway: You will leave with a clearer, more grounded sense of your own identity as a leader: the values that anchor you, the patterns that have been steering you, and the instincts worth trusting. Not a new version of yourself. A more honest one.


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Book Trailer for DO YOU FEEL LIKE WRITING? A CREATIVE GUIDE TO ARTISTIC CONFIDENCE

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