Beautiful Power™
Talks
Live conversations about power, purpose, and what's next.
Recent gatherings
INTRODUCING BEAUTIFUL POWER
July 15, 2026
A conversation around a developing philosophy called Beautiful Power—built from lived experience and over thirty in-depth interviews with women about power. We explored what it is to return to yourself, where we override our instincts, and why imposter syndrome feels like gaslighting.
What came out of the room:
We aren't disconnected from our power. More often, we override it in order to belong, achieve, or stay safe.
Much of what feels like "our" path is inherited from the systems, expectations, and identities we've learned to trust. Real power begins when we notice we have a choice.
Beautiful Power isn't about reinvention. It is the visible expression of returning to ourselves and expanding from there.
We don't become powerful by suppressing what we feel. Presence, breath, intuition, creativity, and vulnerability are not distractions from power—they are how we access it.
MOVING WITH VISIBLE VULNERABILITY
June 24, 2026
Three women who have spent their lives creating in public — Grace Valerie (Singer, Actress & Content Creator), Carmen Scott (Actress, Writer & Founder, Flesh Onesie Creations), and Sumanma Wadhwa (MFA Visual Storyteller & Founder, Art Leela Design House) — talked honestly about what it means to move with visible vulnerability rather than wait for it to pass.
What came out of the room:
Fear and vulnerability are not the same thing. We tend to mix them up. Fear tells you to stop. Vulnerability is what happens when you keep going honestly anyway.
The hardest visibility isn't public. It comes from the people who knew earlier versions of you — and haven't updated their picture yet.
Visibility has a cost. Relationships that couldn't grow with you. Comfort. The ability to hide. Nothing lost was worth keeping more than themselves.
Being visible and being known are not the same thing. Known is what happens through real connection, over time, through what people feel when they're around you.
When you see the beauty within you, things change. People start seeing you differently too.
NAVIGATING THE UNKNOWN
May 13, 2026
Three women who had walked away from something significant and built something truer on the other side — Sejal Desai (Executive Director, Akanksha Education Fund), Tomide Awe (Founder & Creator, On Your Terms), and Theresa Bailey (Founder & CEO, Starfish Synergies).
What came out of the room:
The knowing comes before the certainty. You don’t need the full plan — just the willingness to notice what you already know.
To expand, we often have to contract. What no longer fits — relationships, identities, roles — isn’t loss. It’s space being made.
You’re not starting over. Everything you’ve built is preparation. The walk-away is not a rejection of who you’ve been, but a continuation.
The mess is the path. Non-linear, unglamorous, and more honest than anything that looks clean from the outside.
Sunaina Mehta speaks to organizations, conferences, leadership teams, and communities exploring self-leadership, creative confidence, women's leadership, strategic design, and navigating transition. Talks can be delivered as keynote presentations, fireside conversations, panels, or interactive workshops.
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