109 – CB LIVE! Courage to Leap and Lead with Tricia Brouk, part 1

Tricia is an international award-winning director who has received the Empowered Woman of 2021 award from the International Association of Top Professionals. She has worked in theater, film, and television for over three decades.

In addition to her work in the entertainment industry, Tricia also applies her unique expertise to the art of public speaking. She is the Executive Producer of Speakers Who Dare, and the former Executive Producer of TED×LincolnSquare in New York City.

She curates the Speaker Salon in NYC, an incubator and showcase for emerging speakers, giving speakers the opportunity to get in front of influencers, event organizers, television producers, and TED organizers, who can put them onto big stages. Her award winning podcast, The Big Talk has over 250 episodes, where Tricia interviews people who talk for a living, including Stedman Graham, and yes, Oprah comes up. She also worked on Black Box on ABC, The Affair on Showtime, Rescue Me on Fox, and closely with John Turturro’s Romance and Cigarettes, where she was awarded a Golden Thumb Award from Roger Ebert, for her choreography.

Tricia had the privilege of working closely with the late James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet, Christopher Walken, Eddie Izzard, and Steve Buscemi. Tricia produces the web-series Sublets which won Best Comedy at the Vancouver Web-Festival. She was awarded Top Director of 2019 by

the International Association of Top Professionals. Tricia continues to work on anything and everything she can to make the world a better place.