You're Not Crazy. You're Just First.
A keynote for visionary leaders who feel alone in the room.
- Length
- 30 to 60 minutes
- Best for
- Leadership conferences · Founders · Visionary teams
- Status
- Booking 2026
Jamie Kern Lima said it first: you are not crazy, you are just first. Corrina has been on the receiving end of that line her whole career. Teen mom, single, manager of a Claire's Boutique at twenty, owner of a mortgage company at twenty-eight, building an operating platform other companies are now copying.
This keynote is the live version of how visionary leaders translate intuition into language a team can act on. How to find your room when you can't see anyone else in it yet. And how to keep going when the people closest to you don't yet see what you see.
Less motivational. More mechanical. The specific reframes she uses with her own team and with her coaching clients to keep first-movers from second-guessing themselves into paralysis.
Four specific things.
- 01 How to translate intuition into language your team can act on
- 02 The 'first vs. crazy' diagnostic for any new initiative
- 03 How to find your room when you cannot see anyone else in it yet
- 04 Why being first is lonely, but not the same as being wrong
The story she tells first.
Corrina opens with the Allen Iverson moment that started the essay version of this talk. Then walks through three specific career junctures where she was 'first' in a room and what it cost her vs. what it built.
Three ways to book it.
- 01
Keynote · 30–45 min · women-in-leadership and founder events
- 02
Fireside · 60 min · with moderator
- 03
Conference closer · 45 min · paired with case stories
Three more in the set.
- I
Stop Being the System
How to take yourself out of the production seat without the business stalling.
- II
Unreasonable Hospitality for Operators
Translating Will Guidara's hospitality framework for sales teams and service operators.
- IV
Own Your Day
The unglamorous foundation that decides whether you scale or stall.