NICOLE PORCARO: Inspiration Begins here // Rejection = Redirection
Your Journey Matters
Let Me Help You Along The Way!
Whether you're striving to climb the corporate ladder or elevate your personal growth, the biggest barriers to success are rarely external — they’re the moments when rejection, fear, or uncertainty convince you to stop climbing altogether. I help audiences transform those defining moments into powerful turning points.
Through dynamic presentations grounded in psychology, leadership research, and lived experience--including two stints on Jeopardy!, running a global educational consulting firm, performing as a trapeze artist, and playing baseball with the New York Yankees-- I show individuals and organizations how to convert setbacks into strategy, confidence into action, and challenges into lasting success.
After all, rejections are just redirections-- so let's turn failure into fortitude!
Services
5,000 US dollars
3,500 US dollars
Reviews
"Nicole speaks with humor, intelligence, and relatability: the trifecta I try to teach all my students to have when training them to go present to decision-makers at all levels of national and international governance. Her resilience and self-awareness are inspiring and also comforting- she makes the impossible seem possible."
Dr. Taylor Winkleman, Executive Director of the Pathfinder Initiative at the Space Frontier Foundation; World Health
Organization and United Nations consultant
Katherine Beckett, Educator, Silver Spring, MD
"My students left with purpose, inspiration, and admiration-- not just for Nicole, but for themselves and all they have and can accomplish."
Daniel Landesberg, Vice-President,
Geisinger Health, Wilkes-Barre, PA; founder, Modern Parent Juggle blog
"Nicole's story of entrepreneurial and personal grit is one to be admired! She is so genuinely passionate when she speaks. As parent myself, I will take the mindset and tools she spoke about to impact my own work at the hospital and with Modern Parent Juggle."
Jana Kass, MBA, MSN, RN, RN-BC, System Nursing Program Director, Technology and Innovation, Geisinger Health, Wilkes-Barre, PA
Testimonial coming soon!
In Action
Nicole in the Media
Nicole is featured from 00:30-00:50; 1:04-1:11; and 1:56-2:00.
Other Notable Speaking Engagements:
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Keynote Speaker, National Society of Collegiate Scholars Induction Ceremony at the University of Maryland (2013)
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Keynote Speaker, Gen*Z High School Career Summit at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland (2016)
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Author and Presenter of "Textually Transmited Diseases: New Looks at
Old Books" Podcast on American Modernism for Harvard University (2021)
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Temple Beth Ami Featured Panelist, College Readiness Panel in Rockville, Mayland (2025)