Speaking From Experience
Setting a New Standard for Speaking & Events.
Ending event mediocrity for good — by creating raving fan talks and world-class speaker experiences that audiences remember for years. Whether you're booking a keynote, training to become a stronger speaker, or building toward your own moment on stage, Speaking From Experience is where it starts.
20+
YEARS LEADING
50+
KEYNOTE TALKS
$16M
BUSINESS EXIT
The Mission
One Mission.
Four Ways In.
Speaking From Experience is an ecosystem built to raise the standard of every stage, every speaker, and every event. Whether you're in the audience, on the stage, or building toward it — there's a place for you here.
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Free Content
No fluff. No theory. actionable tips from Mari — on speaking, leadership, building business, and a life worth talking about.
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Keynote Speaking
Book Mari for your next conference, summit, or corporate event. Professional. Entertaining. Unforgettable.
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SFE Class
A training program for speakers who want to deliver talks that create raving fans and lasting change.
Two 90-minute classes designed to teach, tune up and help you polish your existing talk.
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The Event
A live stage with paradigm shifting speakers connecting into a powerful network.
Only top ranked speakers are invited to present on this stage, ensuring the highest quality event.
Meet Mari
From teen mom
to CEO to keynote
speaker.
Mari Tautimes built three businesses, sold one for $16 million, raised four kids, and rebuilt a marriage she'd already walked out of. She knows what it means to stay in the messy middle — and she leaves every audience with exactly what they need to keep going.
Her speaking style is polished and professional — but it feels like a one-on-one conversation. As a relatable and masterful storyteller, she engages audiences in a way that makes her message stick.
The Signature Talk
What Mari Brings to Your Stage
Keynote · 2026–2027
Profit Loves Purpose
Why the best leaders stop choosing between making money and making meaning - and how to build a business that does both.
Most leaders think they're stuck with a choice: build a profitable business or a purpose-driven one. Chase the numbers orchase the mission. Mari Tautimes has lived on both sides of that line, and she's here to call the choice what it is — false. Drawing on 20+ years of building companies (including one she sold for $16 million) and her own improbable climb from teen mom to CEO, Mari makes the case that profit and purpose aren't rivals fighting over the same oxygen; they're multipliers, and quietly starving one shrinks the other. Equal parts honest story and challenge, this talk hands leaders a new way to see their business, their team, and their own ambition: not as a trade-off to manage, but as a both/and to build.
A couple of alternate titles if "Profit Loves Purpose" isn't quite it:
The And — Profit or purpose is a false choice. Here's how to build both.
You Don't Have to Choose — The leader's case for profit and purpose, together.
The Book
#KeepGoing
Walk away with plan for taking charge of your own life, from the woman who started from less than zero and built a life worth leading.
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