True stories and original songs

Keynote Concert · Motivation and Personal Development

Eat the Pie

What a songwriter knows about not waiting to be asked

Great for: women’s leadership conferences · association annual meetings · membership organizations · professional development days · leadership retreats

College gave Erin permission to be a schoolteacher. Children gave her permission to be a mother. When she started writing the songs that fill her two chart-topping records, the only permission she got was her own.

In this keynote concert, Erin goes after excuses one song at a time.

Named after her crowd favorite song, Eat the Pie is Erin giving herself the permission society typically wouldn’t -- to go back as a fully-formed adult woman to compete in her hometown Fourth of July pie-eating contest she had last won at age 12.

As a kid, people called it cute. As an adult…they had follow-up questions.

You don’t need permission to do great things or fun things or interesting things or valuable things. When you’re ready for The Thing, the only permission you need is your own.

What your group leaves with:

• How to tell a real decision from a permission problem
• The name of the person whose permission you’ve been waiting for
• Permission to start
• A funny catchphrase for the rest of your event

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Keynote Concert · Storytelling and Connection

Storytelling for Grown-ups

What a songwriter knows about being listened to

Great for: association and corporate conferences · women’s events · opening and closing sessions · retreats

Every single communication in life can be improved with effective storytelling.

No one knows that better than a chart-topping songwriter whose very livelihood depends on great storytelling.

Not everyone is a songwriter, but everyone can benefit from improved communication.

In this keynote concert, Erin sings a song, and then she shows you the wiring. What she put in, what she left out, and why you leaned forward at the exact moment you did.

All the people you deal with in this world are hoping you’ll be worth listening to. A good story is how you get there.

Erin shares her tools of the trade, so you will be able to:

• Know the one detail that makes a stranger lean in
• Start the story later than you think you should
• Keep the part you’d rather leave out
• Cut the part you’re proudest of
• Stop before you explain what it meant

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Concert · Entertainment

One Time I Stole a Book

Songs and stories with Erin Ash Sullivan

Great for: libraries · arts series · women’s clubs and membership organizations · community events · luncheons · fundraisers

A concert is an invitation into the artist’s world -- and Erin’s world is a place people tend to like. It’s cozy-with-an-edge. It’s funny-but-sincere. With songs that are personal-and-universal.

The stories and songs range from pretty to peppy, on topics as varied as the stolen book of the title, the dark side of a small town, and a triumphant pie-eating comeback.

Oh, and she sings like a songbird.

It’s a concert that feels like a conversation. And yes, you’ll find out about the book.

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