Maral Yazarloo in touring gear beside a painted mural during the Ride To Be One journey

Speaking

SOME STORIES YOU TELL. THIS ONE, I LIVED.

Motivational keynotes from the woman who left Iran, built a fashion house, and rode a motorcycle across seven continents. Corporate rooms, riding communities, live events.

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Three rooms, one story

WHO IT'S FOR.

CORPORATE

For leadership teams, sales kick-offs and company off-sites.

Resilience, reinvention and deciding under uncertainty — told through a life that moved from Iran to India, built a fashion house, then rode around the world. No framework slides. A story your team will still be quoting a year later.

BIKING & ADVENTURE

For riding communities, adventure festivals and expos.

One of the first three women to ride all seven continents — 64 countries, 18 months, no backup. What the road actually teaches: preparation, fear, borders, breakdowns, and why you go anyway.

EVENTS

For conferences, summits, universities and women's forums.

A BBC 100 Women honouree on independence, identity and refusing the lives other people plan for you. Adapted to your audience, your theme and your running order.

Signature talks

RIDE TO BE ONE

Seven continents on a motorcycle — and what it costs to choose your own life.

THE DECIDED LIFE

From Tehran to the runway to the road: reinvention as a discipline, not an accident.

FEAR IS A BORDER

Crossing 64 countries taught me that most limits are checkpoints. You slow down, you show your papers, you keep going.

Formats

Keynote
30–60 minutes, with or without Q&A
Fireside
Moderated conversation, any length
Workshop
Half-day, small senior groups
Virtual
Live, for distributed teams

In her words

“I don't do inspiration as a genre. I did something very specific, under real constraints, and I can tell you exactly what it required. That's what I bring to a stage.”

— Maral Yazarloo

Continents

Countries, by motorcycle

110,000

Kilometres

Months, solo

113 countries in total, across a lifetime of travelling — sixty-four of them on the bike.

Recognition

2020
ET GEN NEXT Icons Award
The Economic Times
2018
100 Women
BBC — 100 inspiring and influential women worldwide
2017
Pune's Most Powerful
Femina

One of the first three women to ride a motorcycle across all seven continents.
Sixty-four of those countries were crossed on the bike; she has travelled to 113 in total.
Rode the final six months of the journey pregnant, finishing the route she set out on.
Set out from India in March 2017 with no support team and no backup vehicle.

Media

WHAT'S ALREADY BEEN WRITTEN.

For interview requests, images or a press kit, contact the studio.

Booking

PUT MARAL ON YOUR STAGE.

Tell the studio the audience, the date and the city. You'll get a straight answer on availability and fee — usually within two working days.

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