Inspiring storyteller and motivational keynote speaker
Corporate teams, leadership groups, wellness programmes, HR and learning units, conferences seeking motivational and culture-shifting content.
Hermien Elago is an inspiring storyteller and transformational speaker whose work centres on helping individuals and teams realise their untapped potential. With more than seven years of experience using personal narrative and the discipline of fitness as catalysts for change, she delivers talks that are honest, vulnerable, humorous and deeply relatable. Her own journey of challenging limiting beliefs and rebuilding a powerful sense of self provides the foundation for the practical tools she shares with audiences.
As President of the Professional Speakers Association of Namibia (PSAN) and a board member of the organisation, Hermien is recognised as a leading voice in personal development and motivational speaking across the region. Her passion lies in witnessing people exceed their own expectations. She believes that transformation begins with self-awareness and continues through consistent commitment to growth, and her message resonates strongly with teams navigating performance pressure, change and workplace culture challenges.
Hermien’s sessions are crafted to ignite confidence, improve self-image and raise performance standards in meaningful ways. Her storytelling approach connects quickly with audiences, creating a safe space for introspection while offering practical guidance for behavioural shifts. She supports organisations in building morale, strengthening engagement and cultivating a culture in which individuals feel capable, valued and motivated to grow.
Hermien Elago storytelling will motivate, inspire, and inject lasting change into the culture of your organisation. She has shown herself to be a woman of drive and dedication. Ever striving, ever-changing, ever-growing.
For more than seven years she has used the power of story and the vehicle that is fitness to overcome limiting beliefs through her personal transformation in an honest, vulnerable, raw, and sometimes humorous manner and has inspired others to do the same so that they too can experience change and transformation in all areas of their lives.
Hermien is the current President of the Professional Speakers Association of Namibia (PSAN) and serves on the Board of the organization.
Her passion for speaking and her passion for seeing individuals achieve great things have collided and she is on a mission to help people realize that they are capable of so much more than they think they are!
Hermien Elago’s talk is designed to encourage your Team with the tools to improve their self-image and inevitably lift the bar on their performance and job satisfaction, boosting the morale of your company.
We don’t want to oversell this opportunity, nor do we want to not do it justice by failing to explain why Hermien Elago knows she can make a difference. But if you’re keen to finish the year on a high, here’s that opportunity.
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This impactful 6m32 TEDx talk captures Hermien Elago’s deeply personal journey of confronting emotional eating, low self-worth and a lifetime of limiting beliefs. She opens with the moment that triggered her transformation: stepping on the scale in 2013 and seeing a number she never expected. From childhood, Hermien had struggled with body image and approval, recalling how at 13 she was already wishing to lose weight simply to feel accepted. She speaks candidly, weaving humour and vulnerability as she describes turning to food for comfort and internalising messages that she would “never change.”
Her turning point came when she challenged the narrative she had been told all her life. Instead of accepting defeat, she asked herself a powerful question: “What if I started and did not quit?” That decision marked the beginning of a profound personal evolution. Hermien describes discovering freedom, strength and purpose on the other side of courage, realising that true liberation comes from refusing to be imprisoned by fear or external judgment.
She shares the central lessons that shaped her transformation. First, the importance of “stick-to-itiveness,” the discipline to keep going even when the process is uncomfortable. Second, grit, the resilience to push through obstacles because the goal matters more than the hardship. Third, the realisation that “Superman is not coming”—she had to be her own hero and believe in herself more than anyone else could. She emphasises embracing discomfort (“embrace the suck”), falling forward when mistakes happen and never allowing failure to become a reason to quit.
01:16–02:25 Childhood reflections, emotional eating and internalising limiting beliefs about her ability to change.
02:26–03:25 The turning point: deciding to challenge negative expectations and begin her transformation.
03:26–04:40 Discoveries on the other side of courage: freedom, strength and a sense of purpose.
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