Tammy Kling presents
Your Story Matters.
I’m Tammy Kling, and Lifetime television bought the rights to my book, a memoir, and produced it as a movie.
It was a very personal story, and I’m here to tell you that you can do it too.
Your story matters.
The process of writing helped me heal, but it also helped others who have been through tragedy. We all share the common experience of pain.
If you’ve had a childhood wound, loss, or have a secret you’d like to process and share with the world, please join me. Because for the first time ever, I want to tell everyone how to do exactly what I did.
I left my corporate job, I wrote a book, and I did a TEDx talk. I became a TEDx host with the goal of helping world changers share their story.
Are you ready? I know it’s overwhelming and it’s a lot to unravel. But if I can do it, you can too. Join me for our live workshop on Zoom. You don’t have to attend every session—you can attend when you want or catch the replay.
Built on 4,700 books and 2,100 TEDx talks in 15 years, with corporate work including Burger King and a book adapted for Lifetime.
Tammy Kling
Founder · Author · Story Strategist
From page to stage to screen
Your Story. Your Book. Your Movie.
Watch Tammy explain how the story you have lived can become the message people remember.
- Books
- 4,700BooksWritten, created, published and coached authors through
- Years
- 15YearsBuilding Tammy Kling's book, PR and communications work
- Corporate books
- Burger KingCorporate booksOne of many corporations Tammy and her team have written for
- Movie from a book
- LifetimeMovie from a bookAdapted from a title developed by Tammy's team, releasing this September
YOUR STORY MATTERS.
Your experience can become a TEDx talk, a movie, a paid speaking platform, or the book that carries it all. The right path starts by uncovering the story only you can tell.
Your story. Your stage. Your screen.
Where should your story go next?
Choose the outcome you want. We will start with your story and build the clearest path forward.
Get My TEDx Talk
Clarify the idea only you can deliver, shape the talk, prepare the audition, and rehearse for the room.
Build My TEDx TalkTurn My Story Into a Movie
Assess the story for page and screen, protect what matters, and map a credible path toward adaptation.
Explore My Movie PathMake Money as a Speaker
Turn your lived experience into a signature message, keynote, speaker positioning, and path to paid stages.
Build My Speaking Path
Why her, and not someone else
One story can become a book, a stage, a screen, and a business.
Tammy Kling has spent 15 years helping people turn lived experience into books, TEDx talks, films, and speaking platforms that carry their message further.
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Track record
4,700 books in 15 years.
Most people who offer to help with your book have written one. Tammy and her team have written, created, published and coached authors through 4,700 of them — including a New York Times bestseller and a global bestseller of her own, The Compass, published in more than 26 countries.
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Corporate credibility
Burger King trusted her with their book.
Alongside CEOs, athletes and humanitarians, Tammy and her team have written books for major corporations — Burger King among them — turning operating philosophy, founding story and culture into an asset the whole organization can use.
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Page to screen
One of the books is now a movie.
A film adapted from a book developed by Tammy's team releases on the Lifetime channel this September. Some stories belong on the page and some belong on screen — she has taken one all the way from first interview to broadcast.
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The excavation
Creating a book is 90% life coaching and 10% book.
That is her line, and it is the real difference. The work starts as an excavation of the story you have been carrying — the moment, the cost, the lesson — and only then becomes structure, chapters and a manuscript.
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Stage and platform
A book is one asset. The platform is the point.
For over a decade she has coached speakers on landing TEDx talks, sharpening keynotes and building global brands — including speakers earning between $1M and $3.5M a year, and the coaches who coach them.
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Why words matter
The only book company that employs homeless writers.
Alongside the corporate work, Tammy's company employs writers who have experienced homelessness, and Tammy has spent years advocating for them. It is the clearest proof of the premise: words are currency, and they can save a life.
Has worked with leaders and humanitarians including
- Richard Branson
- Nick Vujicic
- Trent Shelton
- Chi Chi Rodriguez
As published by YOUR STORY MATTERS. Named individuals are prior collaborations and appearances, not endorsements of any current service.
Her work has been on the biggest desks in publishing and broadcast.
Tammy’s writing and her clients’ stories have been covered by national press and prime-time television. Virgin.com called her one of the world’s top ghostwriters. Every line below is stated as the outlet or YOUR STORY MATTERS states it — no rankings, no ratings, no implied endorsements.
The New York Times
Bestseller list; featured coverage
Wall Street Journal
Featured
Dateline NBC
Featured
Huffington Post
“The Power of Words” feature
Virgin.com
Named among the world’s top ghostwriters
Forbes Coaches Council
Member
Reader’s Digest
Featured article
Primetime / Extra
Featured
You Already Have the Experience. Now Build the Message Around It.
You do not need to arrive with a finished manuscript. You need a story, body of knowledge, or hard-won lesson capable of serving a defined audience.
CEOs and Founders
Turn your leadership philosophy, company history, or operating principles into an authority and legacy asset — the work Tammy's CEO book division was built for.
Experts and Coaches
Transform what you know into a distinctive framework, book, and platform. Tammy coaches the coaches other coaches hire.
Athletes and Public Figures
Tell it once, tell it right. Tammy's team has a dedicated athlete book division and decades of experience protecting sensitive stories.
Purpose-Driven Storytellers
Shape a deeply personal story into something useful, responsible, and genuinely transformative for the reader.
The Story-to-Stage-to-Screen Method
We do not begin with a format. We begin with the story and the change you want it to create.
Stage 1
The Excavation
Before chapters, the story. We dig for the defining experience, the real cost, the lesson, the reader you are writing for, and the boundaries you want to keep. Ninety percent of this stage is coaching.
Stage 2
Protect and Structure
Your intellectual property is established and protected first. Then the architecture: concept, spine, chapter design, interview plan, voice and author positioning.
Stage 3
Choose the Right Medium
Shape the story for its strongest form: a book, a TEDx talk, a screen adaptation, a signature keynote, or an intentional combination.
Stage 4
Stage, Screen and Platform
Build the talk architecture, screen pathway, speaker positioning, launch assets and thought-leadership platform that carry the story into the world.
Important: YOUR STORY MATTERS provides strategy, writing, coaching, production support, and agreed outreach services. Bestseller status, TEDx selection, media coverage, speaking bookings, fees, and revenue are not guaranteed.
Choose the Right Starting Point
Begin with clarity, build the authority asset, or partner with us from first interview through launch and stage strategy.
Story Clarity Intensive
Suggested investment: Starting at $3,500
Best for: People with an important story or body of expertise who need strategic clarity before committing to a full book.
- Pre-work assessment
- Story and audience strategy
- Book concept
- Keynote concept
- Positioning statement
- Ninety-day roadmap
Author Authority Accelerator
Suggested investment: Starting at $25,000
Best for: Experts and leaders who will write with coaching, bring an existing manuscript, or need significant editorial and publishing support.
- Book architecture
- Writing or editorial coaching
- Developmental editing
- Publishing strategy
- Author positioning
- Launch roadmap
Most Comprehensive
Legacy Book + Stage Partnership
Suggested investment: Starting at $65,000
Best for: Busy leaders who want a high-touch, interview-led book and speaker-platform partnership.
- Story strategy
- Interview-led ghostwriting
- Research and editorial development
- Book-production oversight
- Keynote and speaker positioning
- Author and speaker brand assets
- Launch and content plan
- Targeted outreach support as contracted
Corporate Legacy Partnership
Custom investment
For leadership books, company histories, culture assets, executive thought leadership, workshops, and internal or external rollout.
Final scope, investment, timeline, publishing model, rights, royalties, revision limits, marketing, and speaker services are defined in a written proposal.
One event a year
YOUR STORY MATTERS Annual Event
One room. One weekend. Everything Tammy has learned from 4,700 books, turned into a story-to-stage intensive you go through alongside other leaders.
- Live excavation — find the story you have been carrying, on the spot
- Book architecture built in the room, not months later
- Keynote premise and stage coaching from a TEDx speaker who coaches TEDx speakers
- A small room by design, so every attendee gets worked with
Dates, city and pricing are being finalized. Join the waitlist and you will hear before it is announced publicly.
Join the event waitlist
Be first to know when dates open.
Self-paced, one to many
The Story Excavation Course
The method behind the books, taught directly — for people who are ready to start writing now and want Tammy's process without a full ghostwriting engagement.
- The excavation framework: the moment, the cost, the lesson, the reader
- How to structure a book that a publisher can actually work with
- Turning your chapters into a keynote and a platform
- Written prompts, worked examples and review checkpoints
In production. Early-access members get first pricing and shape the curriculum with their questions.
Get early access
First pricing, first cohort, first look at the lessons.
Book or documentary
Some stories belong on screen
A film adapted from a book developed by Tammy's team releases on the Lifetime channel this September. If you are not sure whether your life is a book, a documentary, or both, tell us the story and we will tell you honestly.
- Story assessment for page versus screen
- Rights, privacy and what should stay off the record
- Book-first path, with screen optionality preserved
Tell us about your story
A short note is enough to start. We will come back to you with an honest read on whether it is a book, a documentary, or both.
Three divisions. One standard.
YOUR STORY MATTERS runs dedicated divisions for leadership books, athlete books, and speakers. Named client documentation is released only with written client approval — ask and we will share what is cleared.
CEO book division
Leadership books that carry a company's thinking
Operating philosophy, founding story, culture and succession — captured as a book the organization can hand to clients, recruits and the next generation of leaders.
Typical assets: book, keynote premise, internal comms language, PR content.
Athlete book division
Careers written before the window closes
Athletes get one chance to tell the story in their own words. Tammy's company has a dedicated division for it, and long experience handling what should and should not be on the page.
Typical assets: memoir or hybrid book, youth-facing message, speaking platform.
Speakers and coaches
From a good talk to a global platform
For over a decade Tammy has coached speakers on obtaining TEDx talks, delivering keynotes, writing books and building brands that outlast a single stage.
Typical assets: signature keynote, book, speaker brand, content engine.
Wordsmith. Author. Story strategist.
Meet Tammy Kling
Tammy Kling is a wordsmith, corporate communications expert and global bestselling author published in more than 26 countries. She has written for 90+ authors and thousands of books — including a title that reached the New York Times bestseller list.
Virgin.com named her one of the world’s top ghostwriters, but her stated gift is simpler than that: using words to change lives. Whether in a corporate training room, a keynote, or a manuscript, the focus is communication that builds, elevates and creates clarity.
She is a graduate of the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, with further study in psychology and brain neuroscience at Harvard. She has led YOUR STORY MATTERS for over a decade, founded the invitation-only gathering The Conversation, and built the only book company that employs homeless writers.
- TEDx speaker — “Words Are Currency”
- Global bestselling author, The Compass
- Named among the world’s top ghostwriters by Virgin.com
- Forbes Coaches Council
- Founder, YOUR STORY MATTERS
- University of Florida, College of Journalism and Communications
- Further study in psychology and brain neuroscience, Harvard
- Founder, The Conversation
The part that isn’t a business
Words are currency. Sometimes they are a lifeline.
The only book company that employs homeless writers
Tammy is an advocate for the homeless, and her company employs writers who have lived it. The same belief runs through the corporate work: what you say, and how you say it, changes what happens next for someone.
The Conversation
Tammy founded The Conversation, an annual invitation-only gathering of 100 celebrities, CEOs, entrepreneurs, speakers and authors — a room clients frequently end up in.
Questions Leaders Ask First
YOUR STORY MATTERS.
It can change a room, reach a screen, and build a speaking career. Tell us what you have lived, learned, built, or overcome. We will help identify the right next step.
Choose My Story PathYour story. Your stage. Your screen.
Choose What Your Story Becomes
Your story matters. Tell us where you want it to go. The more specific you are, the more useful our response will be.