Keynote Speaker
Amy Schwab
I quit my tech job in January 2023 to walk dogs, and built it into a 13 person company serving 150 families that I now run from 9,000 miles away.
I quit my tech job in January 2023 to walk dogs, and built it into a 13 person company serving 150 families that I now run from 9,000 miles away.
I speak to rooms of women and founders about walking away from a career everyone told them to keep, building a company without a roadmap, and leading a team from the other side of the world. Honest, specific, and useful, with the receipts to back it up.
Certified graduate of the Embodied Speaker Academy, trained by Jody Dontje (TEDx speaker). Available for keynotes, fireside chats, workshops, and podcasts.
Book me to speakI opened for the Give It All networking event October 2025 and vulnerably discuss choices in my life and how they impacted the paths I took.
I opened for the Give It All networking event May 2026 where I spoke about some of the worst advice I've received throughout my life and how I turned that around into the best advice I could have received.
A raw conversation on the Sisterhood OS podcast about breaking free of the golden handcuffs and building a pet care agency from the ground up.
In January 2023 I quit my job as an account manager in tech with nothing lined up.
I had been running on fumes from 6am to 8pm, glued to Slack, making good money doing work that did not matter to me, and my hair was falling out from the stress. Then a corgi named Winnie ran up to me in Palisades Park and that was the moment I knew.
I filed the LLC walking down Abbot Kinney on March 9, 2023, taught myself bookkeeping and contracts and how to hire and fire and manage a team, and built Betches Walking Betches into a 13 person company serving 150 families across west LA. We did $113,000 in the first 18 months, bootstrapped, with no funding and no debt.
In 2025 I moved to the other side of the world, and I have run the whole company from 9,000 miles away ever since. So when I talk about leaving a career you were supposed to want, or building something with no idea what you are doing, or leading people you cannot sit in a room with, I am talking about things I actually did.
Send me your event, your date, and who is going to be in the room. I will come back to you within two business days.
A short call to work out what your audience actually needs to hear, and I build the talk around that rather than handing you a stock keynote.
I arrive prepared, I hold the room, and I stay afterward to talk to the people who want to keep talking.
Travel is quoted separately depending on where you are. If your budget looks different from what is here, say so in your message and we will work it out.
A talk built around your audience on leaving corporate, building a business from zero, or running a team remotely.
A moderated conversation, a panel seat, or a hands-on working session for founders and teams.
Long-form conversation on entrepreneurship, the corporate exit, and running a company from the other side of the world.
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