Three talks. A warzone childhood, a decade of masking, and the day she stopped shrinking. One through-line.
TEDxOntarioPublicService · 3rd Place, Inspirational Speaker of the Year, Speaker Slam
Rimshah Ahmed started as a spoken word artist, the kind of speaker who says the thing everyone in the room is thinking but hasn't found words for. She's since given a TEDx talk and taken third place for Inspirational Speaker of the Year at Speaker Slam, North America's largest inspirational speaking competition. A neurodivergent mother of three and a proud Muslim woman, she's built a career refusing to shrink herself to make anyone else comfortable with either. Her talks sit at the collision of faith, mental health, and identity, the parts most people are trained to leave offstage.
"My mission is to help people recognize when they're making that same trade, and choose, like I did, to lead with their voice instead."
What a lifetime of masking ADHD looks like named out loud for the first time, and what happens for everyone else in the room once she finally does.
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The silence that once kept a child safe in occupied Kashmir became, decades later, a voice for people who don't have one. Proof that legacy is what you stand up for now, not what's left behind.
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She stopped being everyone else's version of enough and chose to speak from here on, loudly or softly, but always authentically, giving everyone else in the room permission to do the same.
Watch on YouTube →"She has lived experience and speaks it deeply."
Available for keynotes, workshops, and featured talks at conferences, corporate events, educational spaces, and community gatherings across the GTA and beyond.
Keynote fees start at $1,500 CAD. Final quotes depend on format, length, and travel.
Rimshah also takes on a limited number of 1:1 voice coaching clients, select it above if that's what you're inquiring about.