You have the idea. Now it has to survive eighteen minutes without notes.
Gold is for speakers serious about landing a stage and delivering when they get there.
What this tier covers
Everything in Silver — idea development, TEDx framing, application strategy, event selection — plus:
Building the talk — structure, narrative arc, and where most eighteen-minute talks lose the room
Your story as evidence — using personal experience to carry an argument instead of decorating it
Delivery — memorisation, pacing, and what to do when your material goes flat mid-talk
Rehearsal and revision — working the draft until it holds without notes
What separates speakers who make it isn't stage presence. It's grit — Great Resilience in Time — the discipline to rewrite the talk for the ninth time when the eighth was already good.
Who you're learning from
Dr. India White went from homelessness to a TEDx stage. "The Power of Grit" at TEDxOcala has been viewed more than 295,000 times. Her framework has trained over 100,000 people across 38 states.
💬 Not sure whether you need Gold or Silver? Ask G.R.I.T.bot. Tell it what you have so far — an idea, a draft, a booked stage — and it will tell you which tier fits.
