Shabnam Mogharabi Speaking Fee: $20,000 to $30,000

Shabnam Mogharabi is an entertainment entrepreneur and producer with 20 years of experience leading mission-driven media companies. Shabnam co-founded the uplifting content studio SoulPancake with actor Rainn Wilson, which she ran as CEO for nearly a decade, amassing 1B+ online video views and dozens of Emmy and Webby Awards on their content slate, before a successful exit to Participant Media. During her tenure, she was named The Hustle's Entrepreneur of the Year, and SoulPancake was named to Inc5000's Fastest Growing Businesses and Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies in Media. Currently, Shabnam is CEO of The Joy Brigade, a boutique production and storytelling company. She also continues to work with Rainn Wilson on Soul Boom, a new company creating playful, profound media to harness ancient spiritual tools for personal and social transformation. Shabnam is the New York Times bestselling co-author of Soul Boom: Spiritual Tools for Modern Living and SoulPancake: Chew on Life's Big Questions. She has a certification in positive psychology and is a highly sought-after keynote speaker on the subjects of joy, purpose, and storytelling. Shabnam also sits on the advisory boards of for-profit startups Seed & Spark and DEIA and the not-for-profit organizations The Wayfarer Foundation and Girl Rising. She is also on the board of directors of the national immigration non-profit Tahirih Justice Center. Shabnam is a Henry Crown Fellow and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. She began her career in journalism, where she ran large editorial newsrooms. She has always been drawn to companies whose mission and culture align with her personal values and desire to tell stories that create hope in a depleted world. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, two littles, and a nutty mutt named Ziggy.