Speaker | Creator | Consultant
Lindsay James
About
During the pandemic, Lindsay started creating videos out of boredom. Known online as Shameless Elle, her unfiltered honesty quickly resonated, growing into a community of millions. Even as her audience grew, she joked that there had to be a glitch in the algorithm, that people would eventually realize they had accidentally followed her and quietly leave. Being introduced as the keynote speaker at the Pomeroy 2026 Summit challenged the belief that her success was accidental and forced a deeper look at the stories we carry about ourselves and the ones we rarely stop to question.
Lindsay James is a content creator, public speaker, and consultant who helps individuals, creators, and businesses explore the gap between who they are and who they learned they needed to be.
The Best Friend Project - Podcast
Episode 1
Why losing a best friend can feel as painful as a divorce • The danger of making one person your entire social world • How friendship loss can shake your confidence and identity • The surprising people who were waiting in the wings all along • What Rachel and Elle learned after losing the friendships they thought would last forever.
The Best Friend Project - Podcast
Episode 2
In This Episode: • How three women found each other during seasons of grief and loss• The impact poverty can have on friendship and self-worth • Why asking for help is harder than it looks • What happens when women stop trying to earn love and simply receive it • Friendship after widowhood, divorce, and heartbreak • The small acts of kindness that change relationships forever • Why nobody has to march through life's hardest moments alone.
The Jann Arden Podcast
April 18, 2025
On the unique experiences women face when voicing their opinions. Sharing my journey from comedy to political commentary and the courage to be controversial.
Workshops
Interactive workshops designed for businesses, creators, organizations, and teams. this is not algorithms and viral hacks. We will explore storytelling, audience psychology, online culture, and why people actually connect with content. Less “how to become famous in 30 days,” more understanding the humans behind the screens. Taught with humor and storytelling, participants will leave with practical tools they can actually use, and a clarity that makes social media straight forward, requiring less time, less thought and makes their lives easier.
Speaking
Powerful keynotes that blend humor, storytelling, research, and uncomfortable truths people often avoid talking about and rarely say out loud. I speak on mental health, social dynamics, digital culture, resilience, and the ways our thinking shapes our lives, leaving audiences entertained, challenged, and seeing the world a little differently. Through humor, storytelling, research, and the occasional existential side quest, I speak on mental health, anxiety & cognitive literacy, digital culture, relationships, human behavior, and the ways our thinking quietly runs the show
Consulting
You know that feeling when something should be working, but it just… isn’t? I provide social media audits and collaborative consulting to help businesses, creators, brands, and organizations understand their voice, who they are underneath their titles, what’s resonating, what’s missing, and why. I also work on event architecture and designing experiences people genuinely want to photograph, share, and talk about
Workshops
How To Stop Posting Like A Business
People are not interested in what you have to sell. They are interested in what you have to offer. Helping creators and businesses find their voice, define their place, and build communities people genuinely want to be part of. I teach the principles of event architecture so content becomes inevitable.
Signature Talks
The Exhausting Full-Time Job of Becoming Acceptable
People pleasing, perfectionism and the survival adaptations you thought were personality
How anxiety, social conditioning, and inherited beliefs shape our identities.
Earned Confidence
We keep waiting for confidence, waitng to date, to post, to go after the things we want. Hoping one day we'll magically feel confident to do something we haven't done before.
But we build confidence while our hands are still shaking, while our voice is cracking and our brain is screaming "This is a terrible idea!"
Why Can't I?
My ADHD brain has never once let the fact that I knew absolutely nothing about what I was doing stand in my way. When I started building my social media platform, I had zero experience. Zero strategy. I just… started. Because my brain doesn’t have the part that says “wait, maybe we should learn something first.”
2.5 million followers later — I think that’s a feature, not a bug.
When I planned my first fundraiser? I didn’t know you shouldn’t put a black leather chair in direct sunlight in 32 degrees. I didn’t know you needed more than three people to create atmosphere. I just showed up with clippers and enthusiasm.
SUREEE, I essentially ran a medieval torture device across several bald, sweaty heads.
But I raised money.
That’s not skill.
That’s what not knowing enough to stop looks like. And maybe that's exactly what you need.
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Whether you're looking to book a workshop for your team, inquire about speaking opportunities, or explore one-on-one consulting, I'd love to learn more about your goals and see how we can work together.
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