About
Building, losing, and rebuilding businesses in two industries that don't hand you anything.
I've built multi-million dollar businesses in healthcare and real estate. That's the line that gets read before I walk on stage, and it's true — but it isn't the useful part.
The useful part is everything that line leaves out. I've failed. I've lost money. I've had to make calls I wasn't sure about with people's livelihoods attached to them. I've had mornings I didn't want to get up, and I got up anyway — not because I felt inspired, but because I'd built the discipline to move before the feeling arrived.
Healthcare and real estate are unforgiving in different ways. One runs on razor margins and regulation that changes underneath you. The other runs on cycles you don't control and leverage that punishes you for being early or late. Both of them will teach you the same lesson eventually: the businesses that survive aren't the ones with the best plan. They're the ones whose owner could still function on the worst day.
That's why I speak. Not to hand anyone a feeling, but to show the mechanics — what it actually takes to break through the barrier in front of you, and to keep going when nothing about it feels good yet.
Press kit
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Rhea Stoddart is a healthcare and real estate operator who has built multi-million dollar businesses. She speaks about the discipline of executing under pressure — drawn from building, losing, and rebuilding.
Rhea Stoddart has built multi-million dollar businesses in healthcare and real estate, two of the least forgiving industries there are. She has also failed, lost money, and started over more times than she expected to.
She speaks about what that actually requires — not motivation, but the daily, unglamorous discipline that lets an operator make the hard call and lead the room the next morning. Her talks give audiences a working method rather than a feeling, and she is unusual on the circuit for still running companies rather than talking about ones she used to run.
“Our next speaker has built multi-million dollar businesses in healthcare and real estate — and she'll tell you the failures taught her more than any of it. She's here to talk about what it actually takes to execute when it's hardest. Please welcome Rhea Stoddart.”
