I'm Gina Rodrigues. I held the VP title. I led international marketing teams. I was the person everyone called when something needed fixing, because I was good at it and because I kept saying yes. I was the working mother balancing a global leadership role and a real life, smiling through the chaos and letting everyone believe it was easy. I wrote the book from inside that experience, not from a safe professional distance after I'd recovered and had perspective.
Burnout in a high-performing professional isn't visible from the outside. Your audience knows that better than anyone. When someone on stage has actually lived what she's describing, the people in the room who are currently living it recognize it immediately. They stop wondering whether this applies to them and start listening for what comes next.
I've presented in rooms that range from lunch tables to auditoriums, and the dynamic is the same in all of them: you have about ninety seconds before the room decides whether to stay with you. I know how to earn that decision and keep it. The goal is always the same: something they can use Monday morning, not just something they felt on Thursday afternoon.
What event organizers tell me
Gina brought a great message and reminder: you don't need to become someone new. You just need to remember who you already are beneath the burnout.
Your speaker today spoke directly to the changes I made back then to focus on my life and my happiness. This one was a big eye opener for me.
Topics
Brilliance Not Burnout: How High Performers Break the Cycle Without Breaking Themselves
For women's leadership conferences, corporate retreats, employee wellbeing programs, ERGs (Women in Leadership, Working Parents, DEI groups), and professional development events where your audience includes ambitious professionals carrying significant responsibility at work and at home.
This talk doesn't tell your audience to slow down. It names the specific mechanism that makes high performers resist slowing down even when they know they should: the identity investment in being the person who handles everything. Once that's named plainly, the audience has something to work with. They stop feeling like the problem is their character and start understanding it as a pattern they can actually change.
What the audience leaves with: a burnout self-assessment that shows them where they actually are (not where they think they are), the Brilliance Vision framework for reconnecting to what they're building toward, and the 15-Minute Morning Ritual that replaces the frantic start with something that actually holds.
The keynote runs as The Brilliance Reset: Moving from Burnout to Aligned Abundance. Every attendee leaves with a completed burnout self-assessment (scored across four stages: Burnout Zone, Recovery Mode, Rebuilding Energy, and Brilliance Mode), a reframed limiting belief using three structured journal prompts, and a five-step anchoring practice completed in the room before they leave. The handout goes home with them. The work doesn't end when the talk does.
The Marketing Function Isn't Broken. The Foundation Is.
For CEO and executive audiences navigating growth-stage marketing challenges.
This isn't a motivational talk. It's a direct conversation about the specific places where marketing breaks down organizationally, why it keeps breaking in the same ways, and what a leadership team can do about it before another quarter goes by.
What the audience leaves with: a diagnostic lens for their own marketing function and one concrete conversation to have with their team the following Monday.
Formats
60 minutes
A talk that combines real stories, practical frameworks, and the kind of honesty that makes a room go quiet. Designed to spark a specific shift and give the audience a clear first step, not just a feeling they'll forget by the weekend. Available onsite or virtually.
2 to 4 hours
Participants work through the session rather than watch it. Guided exercises and small-group work built around the specific tools from the BNB framework: the burnout self-assessment, Brilliance Vision, intention-setting, and the 15-Minute Morning Ritual. They leave with a completed personal plan, not notes from a presentation.
6 to 8 hours
A complete reset, built for leadership teams and retreat environments. By the end of the day, participants have a personalized abundance blueprint, a set of aligned intentions, and a reframed relationship with fear and failure. The goal isn't inspiration that fades. It's a different starting point for how they show up the following week.
Ideal for corporate offsites, women's leadership retreats, high-performance teams dealing with burnout or stalled momentum, and university leadership development programs.
What to expect when you book me
Before the event, we'll have a real conversation about your audience: what they're carrying into the room, what you need them to leave with, and what's worked or hasn't at past events. I don't arrive with a fixed talk. I arrive with a framework I've calibrated to the audience you've described.
On the day, I'm there early. I know the AV setup and the run of show. If something changes in the hour before, I adapt without it becoming your problem. The core framework is consistent. The stories, emphasis, and moments I lean into are specific to the room.
After the event, the work doesn't end. Every engagement includes materials that extend the conversation: something the audience takes back into their actual week, not just a deck to file away.
Speaking history
Past engagements include international industry conferences (ISC West, Identity Week Europe, Identity Week America), professional associations, and corporate and nonprofit organizations. Available for keynotes, workshops, and facilitated sessions onsite and virtually.
Commencement Speaker, Southern New Hampshire University undergraduate class of 2009. Visiting Expert, Industrial Design Practicum, Massachusetts College of Art and Design (2012).
Booking
Tell me about the event and who will be in the room. I'll come back to you personally with what the engagement could look like.
Email me at gina@makeitwithmindset.comStart the conversation
Tell me about the event and who will be in the room, and I'll come back to you personally.
Prefer email? Reach me directly at gina@makeitwithmindset.com.