About Emma-Jane Taylor
She regularly challenges difficult ‘conversations’
As a child Emma-Jane was told she was a failure, the girl going nowhere; she had a juvenile delinquent badge slapped on her when she was 13 by a psychiatrist. Being labelled at an early age came with difficulties, leading to most people believing she would be dead or in prison by the time she was 20 – although for many the resultant mental trauma from child sexual abuse is prison enough. She is the Founder of
StageWorks Performing Arts School and
NutritiousWorks;
a series of lifestyle businesses for children and adults founded in 2000. She found her personal and professional success in her late teens/ early twenties through many years of therapy. Her businesses were created from her passions; fitness/well-being, dance, performing arts, nature, wild-swimming & writing; dancing and fitness have run through her veins since she was born. She organically became a Campaigner, Speaker, Presenter, and Author on the subject of Child Sexual Abuse;
having never set out believing she would ever speak up about her life.
Her debut book, Don’t Hold Back, a motivational self-help book, was published in 2018. Don’t Hold Back was written to encourage her readers to find their voice, and in doing so, to help others process the difficulties of CSA, rejection & abandonment. Don’t Hold Back is based on her own story and highlights how she changed her life around to become the successful woman she is today.
By sharing her personal story of trauma and how trauma responses controlled her life; from bulimia to alcohol, to drugs and behaviours such as maladaptive daydreaming, abreactions, dissociation, Emma-Jane has been able to support many people, including corporate environments with her Behavioural Change programmes; something she sees as a very important part of any professional environment.
In 2023 her charity, Project 90-10 was founded as was the NotMyShame campaign – which has fast become a global movement – not something she ever set out to start!
Her focus is to live in a world where people are heard because of who they are, and not what society wants them to be.
She is described by others as ‘a fascinating speaker who you must see once”. She is represented by Champion Speakers and seen as speaker on International Womans Day website.
