In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience.
Visit our Speakers Apply page if you are interested in submitting your idea worth spreading.
If you would like to volunteer for the event, please email tedxmountdora@gmail.com.
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Kristi Nowrouzi is a published author, speaker, and Distinguished Toastmaster who is passionate about helping people communicate ideas that inspire connection and change. She hosts two podcasts, Peopling and Credit Coaching by Kristi, and brings more than two decades of experience in real estate and finance to her work as a mortgage loan officer and educator. Kristi also serves as Board Chair of IDignity. After serving as a curator for TEDxEustis’s February 14, 2026 event, she is excited to join TEDxMountDora.
Colette Jane Fehr is a licensed couples therapist and author of The Cost of Quiet: How to Have the Hard Conversations That Create Secure, Lasting Love, published by Penguin Random House. A professional speaker and national media contributor specializing in communication and relationships, she co-hosts Love Thy Neighbor every Thursday on iHeartRadio’s Real Radio 104.1 and is a regular contributor to FOX 35 Orlando, with segments on relationships and mental health. She also co-hosts Insights from the Couch: Real Talk for Women at Midlife, ranked among the top 2% of podcasts globally. Her expertise has been featured on The Tamron Hall Show and in national publications including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Her 2025 TEDx talk, Secrets of a Couples Therapist, was selected as a TED Editors’ Pick. She is honored to serve as a curator on the TEDxMountDora selection committee.
Investor, 3X Founder, Harvard-trained negotiator, mentor & author who builds cities, companies, and leaders sometimes literally from the ground up, helps solve problems before they happen, and pilots planes in between.
In the spirit of discovering and spreading ideas, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TED Talks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized. (Subject to certain rules and regulations.)
TED is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to discovering, debating and spreading ideas that spark conversation, deepen understanding and drive meaningful change. Our organization is devoted to curiosity, reason, wonder and the pursuit of knowledge — without an agenda. We welcome people from every discipline and culture who seek a deeper understanding of the world and connection with others, and we invite everyone to engage with ideas and activate them in your community.
TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, but today it spans a multitude of worldwide communities and initiatives exploring everything from science and business to education, arts and global issues. In addition to the TED Talks curated from our annual conferences and published on TED.com, we produce original podcasts, short video series, animated educational lessons (TED-Ed) and TV programs that are translated into more than 100 languages and distributed via partnerships around the world. Each year, thousands of independently run TEDx events. Through the Audacious Project, TED has helped catalyze $6.6 billion in funding for projects that support bold solutions to the world’s most urgent challenges — working to make the world more beautiful, sustainable and just. In 2020, TED launched Countdown, an initiative to accelerate solutions to the climate crisis and mobilize a movement for a net-zero future, and in 2023 TED launched TED Democracy to spark a new kind of conversation focused on realistic pathways towards a more vibrant and equitable future. View a full list of TED’s many programs and initiatives.
