Episode 33: The Power Of Positive Thinking: Your Mood Is 100% In Your Control With Misty Schachtell-Megia
There's no such thing as normal. Everyone's got an issue and going through their own individual experiences. For Misty Schachtell-Megia, she was called painfully shy, and rightly so because it seemed she was always hiding behind people. Misty is now the CEO and Founder of Misty Megia, LLC. Today, she joins Amy Vetter to share how the power of positivity and being authentic has helped her in each of her pivots in her career. Learn how her background in dance and theater has helped her as an executive and entrepreneur.
---
Listen to the podcast here:
The Power Of Positive Thinking: Your Mood Is 100% In Your Control With Misty Schachtell-Megia
I’m interviewing Misty Megia, who is a business strategist extraordinaire. She has many years of experience in market strategy, project management, public speaking, corporate branding and channel marketing. In addition, she has a unique experience as a performer, director and choreographer in professional theater with 100-plus productions in her background. She has been honored with being one of the Most Powerful Women in Accounting by CPA Practice Advisor and earned a spot as One to Watch on the Top 100 Influencers for Accounting Today. Misty is the CEO and Founder of Misty Megia LLC, where she directs high-achieving individuals in public speaking techniques. During my interview with Misty, she shares her background with her parents on how they helped her discover the power of positivity and being authentic, which has helped her in each of our pivots in her career. Learn how her background in dance and theater has helped her as an executive and entrepreneur. Misty, would you like to start off and tell us a little bit about yourself?
I was born on April 1st, delivered by Dr. Slaughter.
Is that an April Fool's joke to have a doctor that's named Dr. Slaughter? Can you imagine you're on April Fool's Day with a doctor named Dr. Slaughter?
That wasn't my mom's original doctor. Can you imagine him coming? As you can imagine, I was born with a good sense of humor.
I’ve heard about your parents too, so we'll get into that.
The CEO of Misty Megia, which is lovely because it's myself. I direct and teach high achieving individuals in public speaking techniques using my many years in corporate speaking and on stage.
We're going to get into the background here because it's interesting. Misty and I have been good friends for a long time, so I’m excited to have you. Tell us a little bit about your upbringing, who your parents were, where did you start out?
My upbringing, I would say we were a lower socioeconomic family. Most of the time that I recall is growing up on a 32-acre farm, living off the land a little bit. I was teased heavily because I was in hand me downs a lot and it created some strong beliefs that I had to overcome as I got older.
What were those beliefs?
To me, when you are living in that realm, you don't think further outside of the box of what you could be and you start believing everybody else's constraints about you like, “You're not worthy. You'll never be anything outside of this.” It was probably in first grade, if you read my ambitions as a career was a waitress. You start boxing yourself into what your life is going to be like. My parents are incredibly loving individuals and their belief in me is probably one of the biggest things that have helped me overcome everybody else's beliefs unconditionally. They were always like, “You could be whatever you want to be. You can be anything,” and so supportive in any capacity. Even to this day, anytime I'm bummed, I call them and they turn me around.
You have to share their story of how they met.
My mom and her girlfriend were driving and my dad was hitchhiking with a surfboard. They picked him up and my mom said she was lucky because she was not the driver. She got to sit next to my dad and then they got married six weeks later or maybe even six days. It was a short time too when they got married. They knew they were meant for each other and they are still happily married and they got married at Happy Valley. It’s a good theme for them.
You said they go out every night and look at the sunset together.
Every single night. They live on the beach house that was 400 square feet. My dad has extended it to about three times the size, which is nice, but a lot of that is deck. Every single night, they go out. It doesn't matter what you're doing, if you're there, it's like everything stops and you go and celebrate the sunset and make it another day.
What did that teach you?
For me, it was being grateful. They used to say, “I'm grateful that I woke up on the right side of the dirt.” You start your day in gratitude and you end your day in gratitude. It’s a positive mindset. When I was younger, I got diagnosed with epilepsy. I got into a big depression.
How old were you?
I was a teenager. It would happen when I was in junior high. I was a runner. After running, I was walking with my coach and I passed out. The next thing I knew, I woke up in the principal's office and going through all the medical stuff. My mom's friend who was a nurse came up to me at home and she said, “Don't worry. One day you'll be normal.”
She thought she was trying to be helpful.
To her defense, because it was childhood epilepsy, it was something that I grew out of.
The Power of Positive Thinking
My son, he was a runner too. He would get migraines and they said the same thing. “Once you would be eighteen, it would go away.” Knock on wood, it hasn't come back. That's what I was thinking. There's something about running and dehydration.
When somebody says, “Don't worry. One day you will be normal.” I’m like, “I’m not normal?” I got into this depression and my parents gave me this book, The Power of Positive Thinking, and for me it was a religious book. My family wasn't religious. My dad, in his younger life, was a youth teacher in a church. When I read it, something clicked in me, understanding all your mood is absolutely 100% in your control. The fact you have the ability to either be positive or negative and that starts when you do wake up. That mindset was a game-changer for me. Having parents that could not sit there and lecture you about, “You shouldn't be sad,” but give you a tool for you to learn on your own.
They were also demonstrating it. I always think whether it's personal, business or whatever it is, if the person that's telling you to do something doesn't do it themselves, it's harder to feed it into your own life and buy into it.
You need that role model in doing that. Having that example of it's not money that brings you happiness, it's not all of these outside things that are going to bring you joy is also something that I learned that wasn't even something that was cognizant.
I was going to say probably as a child you didn't feel that way since you were being made fun of with the hand me downs or whatever. In your head, what was going on that was starting to determine your next course as you were growing into an adult?
One of the things that were a pivot for me was theater.
When did you start that?
I started that in high school as well. It's all those stories that you're telling yourself. When I was in fifth grade, I did my first presentation and it was to do a how-to presentation. I took the great skill of creating a napkin ring out of a toilet paper holder because who doesn't want to take something from the bathroom and put it in your dining room? When I went up, I was shaking so bad, I couldn't hold my props, I was dropping things, my voice was shaking. My story was I am not good at speaking in front of people. This is not ever going to be in my life. You now know my life, it's bizarre. My parents pushed me into acting classes at school.
What do you mean by pushed you? Was it that they saw it and said this would be a good thing for you?
They called me painfully shy. You'll see a lot of pictures of me growing up and I was hiding behind people. It was that shame of not fitting in and all of those other things that were making me not confident. I was a dancer. If you put me on stage as a dancer, I didn't have to speak. I could be in music, I can dance, and I didn't have to think about it. That was fine. When I came to speaking to people, that was not comfort for me at all. My parents wanted me to have more courage and understand the power of my voice. They told me to sign up for acting classes, which was terrifying. I had a phenomenal teacher, Mr. Millette, at my high school and he was groundbreaking for me. He created a space for all of us kids to grow and take risks and learn a step by step approach of how to be on stage and be comfortable.
With that lesson, I was so hooked into theater that I went and got an Acting degree and then I went and got a degree. I was like, “This is it.” That is truly what helped me understand how I can take the lessons I’ve learned or my voice and share it in different capacities to help others. I was already a teacher. I started teaching people at seven years old and my dance classes that my grandparents paid for. I would take all of my dances and I would go to school and for all my friends that couldn't afford dance classes, I would hold a dance class at school for them and teach them what I learned. I'd already done speaking in small capacities, but it was not at the larger capacities of being on stage in front of hundreds.
That's an interesting thing that you're talking about. You're shy as yourself, but as another character maybe you're not.
You get to dive into other people. Theater gives you this huge gift of empathy and understanding people at a deeper level because you have to do a lot of research in order to portray somebody honestly onstage. You had to have compassion for whoever you were portraying and your character. That automatically gives you compassion for everybody in general in life because you realize that they had a story before the day you met them and they'll have the story after they leave you. With theater, that dives into all those psychological aspects of human behavior.
You realize everyone's got an issue, so you don't think personal anymore. Because everyone's going through our own individual experience and the self-talk and stuff that you're talking about, but when you start diving into other people's heads, you start realizing everyone's got their own stuff.
You realize that there's no such thing as normal.
I tested that. Who knows what that is? You get an Acting degree and a director's degree. What did you do with it?
Right out of school, I went into technology.
How did that happen?
That's what I went with my directing degree. For me, it was another seed that was planted by my grandmother. She's like, “You'll never find a job in theater.” I was like, “All right.” After school, I came back down to the Bay Area, and this is super funny, I became a receptionist at a motherboard manufacturing company, trying to figure out my life. I was memorizing all of the slicks for all of the products and this gentleman calls and he's asking for Chip, our vice president. I said, “Let me check and see where he's at.” I put him on hold and my VP said, “I’ll be right there. Can you entertain him for a few minutes?” I get back on the phone. I was like, “Would you like to hear about our new products?” He's like, “Sure.”
I started talking to him about it, he was asking me questions and I was answering them. Chip was ready, so I transferred the phone. I didn't know that was the CEO of the company. The next week, I was moved into the sales organization. That's how I used my theater skills, as memorization. To memorize fast and believably talk about things was definitely a skill. In the evening, I was acting. I was in local theater productions. I had been a competitive dancer for the majority of my life and so I was choreographing shows and then I eased into directing as well. I was doing that balance of both worlds of being in the tech world and then being in theater at night. It’s a dual personality, for sure.
I’ve always had that too where I'm an accountant by day and then play music, do yoga or whatever. I remember, and I don't know if you got this, but people would always be saying like, “I don't know how you do it all,” but it wasn't in a compliment. It was like, “That's too busy,” or whatever. After years, I realized in order to do the work that I did, I had to have the other part. It wasn't stressful for me. Maybe I'd be tired or something like that, but if I didn't do it, I wouldn't feel as good during the day.
There is nothing like you being a rock star in your evenings, but it fuels you. I would go to rehearsal, I would be directing a show, and I would have 30 people singing four-part harmony to me. How could you not be invigorated, pinch yourself and go, “This is my life?” You do it because of the passion of it, because there are certain things in your life that you leave with tingling excitement from. Those things you want to keep in your life. It helps you balance everything else.
You're in sales and then what?
I was in OEM sales too, which is Original Engineer Manufacturing for those who don't know. I remember we were going to Fortune 500 because we were building the chassis, which is the desktop system for Fortune 500 companies. We would go in and I would do the presentation. I'd have an engineer and my boss with me. I do remember walking into one of my first meetings and the guy looks at me and he's like, “Are you fourteen?” I was like, “Yes, I'm a childhood prodigy,” and then I went forward with my presentation. “Don't worry about it.” I was doing that for a while.
My boss, the VP, went and started another company and took me with him. It was him and a couple of other people. They had a startup company for modem manufacturing. I went there and I became the spokesperson globally for that company and the head of their government business. They're everything west of the Mississippi and Latin America. I developed a lot of things there from their sales division to helping the marketing side to public speaking globally. It's interesting when I start looking at my journey now, I realized how much theater was at my job. At the time, I was thinking, “I’ve got these two separate lives.” It's like, “No.” I was doing a lot of theater work right in my corporate life.
Positive Thinking: Theater gives you this gift of empathy and understanding people at a deeper level because you have to do a lot of research in order to portray somebody honestly onstage.
I played violin and viola growing up. One of the things that people always say when they find out you're a speaker is, “I don't know how you do that. I have so much fear of being on stage. That's my thing.” I’ve always tracked it back to playing violin because when you have to do a violin recital, and there are no frets on a violin, it can sound bad if you don't practice, you don't prepare when you mess up and have to recover. Doing auditions and that thing, being prepared for those, and not getting ripped apart, which I was ripped apart a few times, and being able to take that. There's nothing harder than the arts. It's personal when they come after you. You're not good enough, so you have to keep fighting for that and that. That helps with when you have to do these types of jobs and get in front of people when you go back to that training. You don't realize it's filtering in but it allows you to go, “I can't do this. I can’t get up there.”
It's interesting to me that with your violin background because that's still an art where you don't have to make eye contact with an audience. You're focused.
I did want to try to get an electric pickup for it that I never can figure out how to do and play rock violin. It never worked out.
I love that you were able to take all of the other skills and then build on top of those for your speaking engagements. You're taking that core base and that foundation you learned, playing a musical instrument, and being able to transfer because not a lot of people can. I agree with you. People often come up to me and go, “How do you do that?” The thing to me is I was a teacher for theater arts for a while and I teach drama and acting classes online. Watching people go from being completely terrified of being in front of people to me pulling them off stage because I'm like, “You're done,” is something that brings me immense joy. Death is above public speaking in the fear.
It comes in a lot of forms. It doesn't have to be on a big stage. It can be a sales meeting. It can be a management meeting with a small group. What it all comes down to when you talk about whether you have eye contact or not as a rehearsal. To me, that’s what the arts teach you because what you see at the end of an orchestra concert or an end of a musical is a complete package. When you know what the rehearsal is like, when you're practicing one measure over and over until you get it right, it's not fun. It's not a fun process. It's not beautiful until you have the dress rehearsal.
You're making my heart happy. I was talking to people that I'm coaching for public speaking and I asked them how they prepare now because they're speaking probably 30-plus sessions a year and they're like, “I wing it.” As a performer, even dancers, their performance is not where they're practicing. You have an audience already in front of you. It's all that preparation. Athletes don't show up to the game without having practiced the whole week. It blows my mind that speakers are like, “I'm going to wing it.” There is a capacity where you want to be in flow on stage where you're not being mechanical, that you've memorized it and it doesn't sound authentic. There's a way to practice and rehearse where you have the right words at the right time to impact your audience. You have to have the right physical nature behind what you're saying that doesn't distract from what you're saying but supports what you're saying. There are all these different things that you can do to make a presentation ten times better, and we need it. It was like, “I'm all about improv, but let's not improv for eight hours.”
When you're saying the right words at the right time, that's true in sales and in management. Whatever you're doing in life and business, you have to be prepared for that meeting. You have to be prepared for what your main points are whether it's the biggest speech of your life or a sales meeting, that rehearsal process and making sure you have the right words to get the message across. Because the thing about communication is the myth is you think it happened. People interpret what they interpret and if you don't say it in the way that they're going to understand what you're trying to communicate, you didn't communicate. Your background is interesting in how that applied to your success in business because you become a spokesperson and then you also were an entrepreneur at a certain point. What happened with that?
That was fun. My husband is in market research, so he's always on the look for the next thing. At the time, video games were the rage and it was outselling any other form of entertainment. We were right in the Silicon Valley where EA Sports were and Nintendo and all these companies. We decided to open a video game store, a physical location. We had three stories. It was downtown right across the movie theater and it was another big acting gig for me because I didn't know anything about video games, except for Ms. Pac-Man and Donkey Kong games. It's not learning the part of playing that video game store owner. It's understanding who the customer is. When I train people on figuring out who their customers are, I always ask for the video game world, “Who do you think my customer was?” and you can play along with me. Amy, who do you think my customer was?
The kid?
The teenager? Through my research, that wasn't my customer. It was the mom.
Because she's the decision-maker.
She was the decision-maker of what came in and out of the house, the permission person, and then the person that had the money. I was sitting here going, “How do I get into these teenagers’ minds and help?” It became this whole thing about, “I don't have to do that.” Luckily, I get to relate to women. I became a space. It was funny because we had eight or so screens, maybe more that people could play games on and try them out. I became the mom of all of these kids because I wouldn't let them play games after school until they did their homework and I would help them with their homework and tutor them. We became a staple for the downtown association. I went on the downtown association board and became the speaker for all of our events in the downtown association again. I became the PR person there that was on TV, touting everything that we’re doing downtown.
It became this fun space. We decided to close it down when we started seeing 7-Eleven was selling games. The expansion packs were being able to be downloaded and streamed and we were like, “This is going to take retail out.” We started paying attention to the trends. We took our kids who are our employees and we sat them down in our basement story to let them know that we were closing the store and they all were crying. It was the hardest thing ever because they were such good people and we’re close with all of them. It was a hard decision to make for sure to shut something down that you had so much fun with. We had all of these people that were bringing us flowers and cards and thanking us for being there for many years. It was impactful for me for sure.
What did you do after that close? How did that change what you wanted to do?
It changed what I wanted to do in the fact of I won't do retail again. Minus all of the good parts of the good customer connections and the downtown stuff, in retail, people expect you to be open seven days a week, 24/7. Christmas Day, they want to spend their gift cards and if you're not there, it's like become something on Yelp about you not being open. It was exhausting for sure. After we would shut our doors at night, we would be there until 3:00 in the morning doing our books, inventory management and all those other things. I realized that retail was not something that I have the capacity for. I was like, “This is draining.” I missed my friends a lot, my family. When we closed that, I went back to work. Orlando was still doing his market research.
Even when we had the store, he was balancing that at the same time for his own company. I went into a bunch of random careers. I went to staffing. I was a staffing person for a while at a company where I'd find people jobs and that was a ton of fun. I remember my most favorite placement ever was finding a guy who had lost his job at AT&T and has become homeless. I remember finding him a job and he came in and brought me flowers. He was crying, he hugged me and he's like, “You have changed my life.” It was so much fun. I also had some weird experiences. I don't know if I should tell this story. It’s funny. I felt like I was on Candid Camera once. I was interviewing this woman because you'd always interview them before you pitch them to a company. The whole time I was interviewing her, she was burping loud and I was like, “Okay.” She wouldn't answer my question. She would burp.
That's a horrible nervous problem.
I know. I felt bad. I was like, “I don't know what to do.” After about twenty minutes of interviewing her, I was like, “Thank you.” I was like, “What do I do with this candidate?” That's an interesting characteristic then, but a lot of times it was finding people jobs that were struggling. After that, I went into green energy for a while at another company and then I went into working at a company called City Beach, which was all team building. We would build team building for Facebook and all of the large companies in our Silicon Valley area. We did everything from tight walking to extreme chef challenges. I had a ton of fun there. Jeanie, one of my best friends, started working at The Sleeter Group and they were looking for an event coordinator. Jeannie recommended me and I had gone in for an interview. They asked me to come in on Saturday and they said, “Dress casual.” It's like, “How do you dress casually for an interview?”
I did and it was funny because it was probably maybe 1 or 1.5 hours of conversation and it was nothing about my background of any sorts. Nothing about my technical background, how long I'd been in technology, what I’ve done at events. They talked to me about feet the majority of the time. I left and thought, “I made some good friends, but I don't think I got a job.” Cheryl Sleeter, she wrote me a letter and they ended up creating a position for me instead of hiring me for the one they had open. They created a whole different position for me and hired me on board. That was the first time I had something creative from scratch. That was sweet. That started my career in the accountant world.
With that transition and customer spaces because you've had a lot of different customer spaces and thought processes and being successful, what do you think shifted as you moved into that next phase of your career or remained the same? It was a belief that always worked for you and it worked for you again.
Being totally honest and vulnerable. About weeks into the job, I was sitting on my couch crying going, “What the hell am I doing?” The accountant world to me was not a skillset. I had a nickname in high school of Brainiac because I was good at math. The accounting world was such a different, unique environment for me from my background. I don't know accounting that well. I don't know all of these things that are being asked of me. I had to have this conversation to get me back of, “What do I have that I can offer?” I went back to those theater roots of like, “I know how to be creative.” I’ve been in marketing and sales for years and when I started talking to our customers, that was some of the things that they were missing. I have an Accounting degree, but I don't have a marketing background. I don't have a sales background. I'm not sure how to sell myself and how to get more customers and all these other things. Once I started looking at the skillsets that I had honed over the years and what my differentiators are, then that became like, “I can do this. I don't have to be the accountant.”
Too many times, people think that it's what you can't compliment.
They didn't need me to do their books.
Positive Thinking: When you're feeling like you don't belong or that you are an imposter in what you're doing, that most likely is a moment where you're not being your authentic self.
I would also say, thinking back to the beginning of our conversation, that experience of flipping from, “I'm not good enough,” to, “What am I good at that I can help?” It goes back to that positive mindset book that you read. We can be hard on ourselves thinking we're not good enough or we can step back and say, “What am I good at? How can I make an impact?”
If you have to take the time to make a list for yourself to encourage it, I highly recommend it. A lot of times, when we are in that anxious space or that negative space, it's because we're out of alignment. We're trying to be something that isn't necessarily the right fit for us. You have to recalibrate and look at overall the picture of what's happening and going, “What is more authentically myself here?” I see a lot of people, even in the accounting world, where they are these fun, incredibly energetic people. When they're dealing with clients, they become this, “I have to be serious because that's what an accountant is.” It's like, “They're coming to you because of that fun, energetic person that they initially met.”
Don't flip it, still be human. Your story is great and there are many lessons there. I like to end with some rapid-fire questions. Pick a category. Family and friends, spiritual or health?
Family and friends.
Things or actions I don't have that I want with my family and friends?
With the environment that's going on, physically seeing them.
Things or actions that I do have, that I want humor and joy on a daily basis?
Luckily, I'm married to somebody that wakes up happy, dances around the house and makes me laugh so hard I cry.
Things or actions I don't have that I don't want?
Negative mindsets about the future of what's happening.
Things or actions that I do have that I don't want?
Maybe uncertainty about the ending of this epidemic.
Isn't it interesting how our answers change based on the situation? This will be one of those memories that pop up. To close out, is there any message or big takeaway that you want to make sure people come away with the story that is important to you to make sure they leave with?
I'd say maybe when you feel like you don't belong or that you are an imposter in what you're doing, that most likely is a moment where you're probably not being your authentic self. Take a step back, believe in what you have to offer and determine how you can move back towards your center because you are the only expert in being you and you're the original. Have faith in yourself and what you bring to the table.
Thank you for sharing your story. I’m looking forward to seeing everybody's responses. Thanks for being here.
Thank you for having me. I love you dearly. It was a pleasure chatting with you.
---
For our Mindful Moments with this interview with Misty where she took those on a journey from starting out with parents that met through hitchhiking and got married six days or weeks later, we're still not clear. That taught her all about being positive no matter what situation you're in. She talked about her background living on a farm, being teased for having hand me downs, and learning about the fact that you can be positive and grateful no matter what you have. The power of unconditional love that she had for her that pushed her to try new things because they were supportive of everything that she wanted to do. They also saw an opportunity for her to do that as well and saw in her this shyness and pushed her too outside of her comfort zone by going into acting.
It's important when we think about that, we may have some areas of opportunity or gaps in the way that we're made up when we are born. What we can do rather than feeding into that story of shyness and instead of breaking through it by different skills to create more confidence. If her parents hadn't supported her to do those things, her life would have taken such a different pivot than it has. She gained that confidence in acting and learning that other people's situations are hard as well. Getting into other people's heads and character. Finding that she was good at dance and performing allowed her to take those skills into other areas of business. A lot of times, we don't think about what creates our success or what are the skills that we have learned along the way that we can mobilize to make sure that we do well in the jobs that we're in?
We often don't think about those creative skills and hobbies that we have to help us in being successful in our careers. When you look back at things that you were good at as a child or that you have a strength in from your personality level, maybe that is in communication, creating relationships, or maybe you are a good speaker or performer. How you can utilize that skill to make yourself unique and come into whatever role that you're doing and be successful at it because you have something different than everyone else. We went into this discussion in great detail about the fact that a lot of times, you get put in roles or jobs that are not comfortable or maybe don't fit your skillset, but it's the right thing to do to push yourself to expand yourself, to learn. Rather than dealing with that self-talk, stepping back and understanding what part are you going to play?
When we look at acting, we study a character and become that character in order to be successful. If you're going into a new job, that's your new part, your new role. How do you study for the success of that role? By looking at other people that have been successful. Maybe you know them through social media or other places. How do you research and get into the people's heads that are successful so that you can find out what traits you have or have that are unique to you that would create success in that same role? Like anything we do, there's always a part to play. Her example of acting is good because you have to research in order to do that. In any arts we do or sports, the rehearsal process is a big deal.
Our job shouldn't be much different. It shouldn't be that we're winging our jobs or feeling like we're not good enough. We have to expand ourselves and know when we're not being authentic to ourselves when something doesn't fit and how we can make it fit. When she was talking about moving into the accounting industry and that it was foreign to her, that's where she had to dive deep and understand that the thing that makes her unique is that she's creative and that she has a marketing and sales background. These were things that this community needed help with. She was able to offset those skills, compliment the skills, not have to be what everybody else is.
When you're crafting your role or your part in your life, how do you look at what makes you unique? How do you make sure that you're not comparing yourself to somebody that has a unique skill that you're never going to have or expertise that you're never going to have? Look at what expertise or skills that you have that are different because you are the only one that can be an expert in what you do and know, and you are the only one that knows what that expertise is. Dive deep, find that power and figure out how you can make yourself the best that you can be.
Important Links:
@MistyMegia - Instagram
@MistyMegia - Twitter
About Misty Megia
Misty Megia (@MistyMegia) is a business strategist extraordinaire. She has driven success for multiple companies across various industries including hardware manufacturing, software developers, green energy, education and more. She has over 20 years of experience in market strategy, project management, public speaking, corporate branding and channel marketing. In addition, Misty is a performer, director and choreographer in professional theatre with 100+ productions in her background
Misty’s powerful methods have positioned her as a leader in her field. She has helped businesses create new revenue streams, develop their brands, streamline operations and bring a fresh eye to the company. Most recently, she led a global team at Intuit as the Head of the ProAdvisor Program and Education Strategy. Through this role, she established strong partnerships in the community to build on the trusted brand.
Misty has been honored with various awards including, after three short years working with the accounting profession, recognition as one of the Most Powerful Women in Accounting by CPA Practice Advisor. She also earned a spot as "One to Watch" on the Top 100 Influencers In Accounting in 2020.
Misty is now the CEO/Founder of Misty Megia LLC where she directs high achieving individuals in public speaking techniques. She brings her 20+ years in corporate speaking and 20+ years in theatre into her unique program. She loves producing astonishing presentations for those who want to elevate their speaking to unforgettable audience experience.
Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!
Join the Breaking Beliefs community today: