Faye was a hit as the keynote speaker at the Virginia Women’s Business Conference

Faye was the keynote speaker at the ninth annual Virginia Women’s Business Conference held at the famed Landsdowne resort. 

Inc. praised Faye’s speech:

It's the holiday season, which means that expectations to be joyful and grateful are at an all-time high. It was with a healthy blend of skepticism and optimism that I listened to - no -  experienced - the fantastic storyteller Faye Lane at the annual Virginia Women's Business Conference, which always attracts about 600 women business owners and leaders in the DC region. 

I hear a lot of keynotes, and I give a lot of keynotes, so my standards are high. I tend to discount the hype when conference promoters excessively gush over those they've chosen to magically transform us to a higher level of self-belief. I underestimated Faye. 

A Texas-born, New York based author, speaker, performer, and flight attendant, Faye took us on a journey through her life and dreams as a child growing up in her mother's beauty salon alongside the train tracks of a small Texas town. It was here that she first envisioned herself as a glamorous flight attendant and Broadway performer.

She eventually realized her dream but learned that our dreams don't always manifest the way we imagine. Instead, it is our responsibility to create the dream we imagine. 

Loudon Now also was impressed by Faye:

The pinnacle of the event each year is the mid-day lunch break where the keynote speaker sends attendees on a charge for the latter part of the afternoon, and going forward.

This year that honor went to Faye Lane, a New York-based writer and performer. Lane captivated the audience with her wit and tales of her young childhood spent at her mother’s Texas beauty salon, her performing career in the Big Apple, and flying the skies as a flight attendant. Now, she is an in-demand speaker, known for motivating her audiences to tell their stories and to recognize their roles in others’ stories.

“This is my greatest joy: to stand in front of a room full of people—the bigger the better—and tell them a story,” she said. “I know that a story can take a group of individuals and through a shared emotional experience turn it into a collective. My whole life I wanted to be connected to other people, connected to something bigger than myself.”

Read more about Faye's keynote speech at Loudon Now