Why Being a "Quick Start" with Many Disciplines Is Your Competitive Advantage
Tricia opens up about being a "quick start" — someone who thrives on initiating, building, and creating across multiple fields — and pushes back against the common advice to niche down and pick one lane. Drawing from the Kolbe Index, which measures how you instinctively take action, she makes the case that a multidisciplinary life isn't a sign of being scattered; it's what makes you uniquely valuable to the people you serve. She illustrates this by walking through her own diverse career: decades as a professional dancer and choreographer, filmmaker, three-time author, podcast host of 10 years, and founder of three companies (The Big Talk, Brooke Moves, and The Wise Leopard). The turning point came when a friend asked her to direct a TEDx talk — despite having zero experience in professional speaking, she applied her theatrical directing instincts and treated it like a one-woman show. That single "yes" launched a seven-figure speaking company. In this episode, we'll explore: The five disciplines Tricia brings to every coaching client: The Dancer (reads body language and physical tension), The Choreographer (stage space, movement, and blocking as meaning), The Writer (narrative structure and the earned ending), The Director (holding the whole picture), and The Producer (turning ideas into reality) How a single "yes" to direct a friend's TEDx talk — with zero professional-speaking experience — became the seven-figure Big Talk company Why quick starts are great at starting but not always finishing, and how building the right team around your instincts (not against them) is the real unlock A challenge to write down every discipline you've ever practiced and what each one taught you — proof it's a competitive advantage, not evidence you're scattered More from Tricia Join me LIVE for my Complimentary Weekly Masterclass Read my Letters on Leadership, Influence & Love on Substack Explore my content and follow me on YouTube Follow me on Instagram Connect with me on Facebook Connect with me on LinkedIn Visit my website at TriciaBrouk.com
