Speaker

A Voice That Moves Rooms.

Ninja Nay is a creative entrepreneur, author, and curator who brings lived experience, strategic depth, and unfiltered authenticity to every stage she occupies.

Ninja Nay is a multi-disciplinary creative entrepreneur operating at the intersection of creative direction, brand strategy, visual storytelling, and personal transformation. Armed with a Bachelor’s degree in Music Management and a Master’s in Digital Marketing, she has spent over a decade translating that foundation into real-world impact. She is the founder of Alchemy Blue, a boutique creative agency specializing in branding, marketing, packaging design, and website development for small to medium-sized businesses.

As the architect of her own expansive brand universe and the author of Odyssey — a visual memoir documenting survival, identity, and the art of navigating this life — she speaks not from theory but from the trenches of building something real. She is also a two-time thyroid cancer survivor living with Lupus and she will be the first to tell you that navigating your health and your dreams at the same time is its own kind of creative act.

Her approach to speaking is as layered as her work: part storyteller, part strategist, part motivator. She meets every audience where they are and leaves them believing they can go further than they imagined.

Whether addressing creative entrepreneurs, corporate teams, students, or communities in the middle of their own becoming — the message is always the same at its core:

You can too.

Topics

She Speaks On

Creative Entrepreneurship

Building a brand from the inside out — the strategy, the sacrifice, the systems, and the vision it takes to construct something that lasts. For aspiring and established creatives ready to operate at the next level.

Creative Direction & Visual Storytelling

How to develop a distinct creative voice, translate abstract ideas into tangible brand assets, and use visual language to communicate with precision and power.

Odyssey — Navigating Life Through Art

Drawing from her memoir Odyssey, Ninja Nay speaks on using creativity as a coping mechanism, finding lessons inside of loss, and the radical act of documenting your own survival. A session that sits at the crossroads of art, grief, identity, and resilience.

Health, Wellness & The Creative Life

Ninja Nay speaks with rare honesty about creating inside a body that challenges you and why protecting your energy is the most radical business decision a creative can make. A conversation for anyone who has ever had to choose between rest and the dream, and had to find a way to honor both.

Documenting Your Life as an Act of Survival

Most people wait until they are on the other side of hardship to tell their story. Ninja Nay documents it in real time — through self-portraiture, journal entries, and on camera six days before surgery. Drawing from Odyssey and her cinematic interview In Reflection, this session explores why witnessing yourself during the hard seasons is one of the most radical and healing acts available to any human being. For anyone who has ever thought their story wasn’t worth telling — or that they had to be fully healed before they could speak.

How She Shows Up

  • Keynote — A signature talk tailored to your event theme and audience
  • Panel Participation — Dynamic, candid, and always prepared
  • Workshop Facilitation — Hands-on, creatively focused sessions designed to activate, not just inform
  • Moderation — A skilled conversation leader who holds the room and draws out what matters

In The Room

  • Guest Judge — Housatonic Community College Werth Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Elevator Pitch Competition
  • Workshop HostThe Idea Lab, Cardinal Sheehan Center/Housatonic, Creative Collaboration, Live Girl nonprofit organization 
  • Panelist — Love & Relationships, tri-state cultural event
  • Moderator — Independent film screenings
  • Podcast Guest — Featured across multiple platforms
Produced by Ninja

Interviews

Odyssey x Mack Unfolds 

Odyssey in Conversation with Mack Unfolds — An in-depth sit-down exploring the themes of Odyssey in full: chronic illness, grief, love, identity, creative survival, and the personal philosophy that carried Ninja Nay through one of the most defining chapters of her life. Called “a beautiful tribute to the complexities of this life experience” by the interviewer, this conversation is as much a companion to the book as it is a portrait of the woman behind it.

→ Watch Odyssey in Conversation

In Reflection

A cinematic pre-surgery interview filmed in March 2026, six days before Ninja Nay went into surgery for the return of thyroid cancer after 15 years. Recorded at the precise moment her memoir about survival was being relaunched, this conversation is raw, unscripted, and unflinching — a document of what it looks like to face the unknown with clarity, creativity, and grace. 

In Reflection is a cinematic interview that captures her in the space between what was and what comes next — processing the cruel irony of relaunching a book about survival at the exact moment survival is back on the table. It is the living proof that Odyssey was never just a chapter. It is a way of moving through this life.

→ Watch In Reflection

The Ninja Nay Workshop Experience

Every workshop Ninja Nay facilitates is hands-on, creatively driven, and built around one goal — leaving participants with something they can use the moment they walk out the door. No passive listening. No generic slides. Just real tools, real conversation, and real creative activation.

Workshops are available as standalone engagements or as complements to keynote bookings.

Custom workshop topics available upon inquiry.

Let’s Collaborate

Book Ninja Nay for Your Next Event.

She is available for keynotes, panels, workshops, moderation, and podcast appearances across corporate, creative, academic, and community platforms.

For speaking inquiries, availability, and rates

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