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MOLLY BLOOM

Inspirational Keynote Speaker, Entrepreneur, and Bestselling Author of Molly’s Game


  • Bestselling Author of Molly’s Game (which was adapted for Oscar nominated film)
  • Journey from college student to LA waitress to building and operating the largest and most notorious private poker game in the world
  • Her games featured hundreds of millions of dollars and players like Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, A-Rod, and Ben Affleck
  • How do you create an experience that will keep the rich and famous coming back when they can go anywhere to play poker?
  • How to beat the game no matter what cards you're holding
  • Bloom began her career as a world-class skier

Molly Bloom is an inspirational keynote speaker, entrepreneur, and bestselling author of Molly’s Game. She is best known for her memoir, Molly’s Game, which was adapted into an award-winning film of the same name by Aaron Sorkin. Bloom’s memoir chronicles her journey from college student to LA waitress to building and operating the largest and most notorious private poker game in the world. Her games featured hundreds of millions of dollars and players like Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, A-Rod, and Ben Affleck.

Bloom began her career as a world-class skier. While training as a pre-teen she was diagnosed with severe scoliosis and had to undergo surgery that the doctors said would end her athletic career. A year later, fully recovered, she was back on the slopes. She later joined the U.S. Ski Team and at 21 years old was ranked No. 3 in North America in moguls, but her Olympic dreams would go unrealized as she left the team to pursue other projects. This led her to what she thought would be a year sabbatical in LA.

Bloom was finishing her degree in Political Science from the University of Colorado – Boulder, and was in the process of applying to top tier Law Schools, when her assistant job turned her into an accidental entrepreneur, running one of the most exclusive, high-stakes underground poker games in the world, pulling in as much as $4 million per year. What happened next is where her story truly begins.

The film Molly’s Game, written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, stars Jessica Chastain (as Molly), Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, Michael Cera, Brian d’Arcy James, and Chris O’Dowd. Bloom has appeared on numerous shows and in media outlets such as Ellen, Vice, The Los Angeles Times, NPR, Vulture, and has been asked to speak at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women, for companies like Blackrock Financial, SiriusXM Radio, and delivered the 2018 commencement speech at Colorado State University.

Molly Bloom tailors each presentation to the needs of his audience and is not limited to the topics we have listed below. These are topics that have proven valuable to customers in the past and are meant only to suggest the speaker's range and interests:

  • Change Management
  • Creativity
  • Customer Experience
  • Inspirational Speakers
  • Motivational Speakers
  • Sales Kickoff Speakers
  • Strategy
  • Virtual Keynote Speakers
  • Women in Business

Please ask us about any subject that interests you; we are sure that we can accommodate you.  

Molly knows all about making the best of bad situations and pivoting to overcome setbacks as they arise, no matter how severe. She’s shared her story of overcoming the odds with audiences hundreds of times and is uniquely adept at inspiring others with her mixture of grace, grit, and authenticity. Clients rave about her professionalism, charm, and first-class presentations.

VIRTUAL KEYNOTE: MOLLY'S GAME: THE TRUE STORY OF THE WOMAN BEHIND THE MOST EXCLUSIVE, HIGH-STAKES UNDERGROUND POKER GAME IN THE WORLD

What’s it like to run an exclusive poker game for the rich and famous? Molly Bloom went from olympic-level skier who didn’t know a thing about poker or Hollywood to building and operating the largest and most notorious private poker game in the world. In this motivational talk, Bloom will show the sales and marketing skills she used to attract hundreds of millions of dollars to the game and spark the interest of players like Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, A-Rod, and Ben Affleck. Audiences will get the inside story not shown in the film as Bloom shares true-life tales of her experience.

VIRTUAL KEYNOTE: BET ON YOURSELF AND YOU’LL ALWAYS WIN: OVERCOMING SETBACKS

How do you come back from a failure? After the FBI arrested Molly Bloom and confiscated all her earnings from her poker business, she could have given up. Instead, she used the same lessons she learned from her father that led her to come back from back surgery to be ranked No. 3 in North America in moguls, to overcome this setback. She wrote the bestselling memoir, Molly’s Game, convinced Aaron Sorkin to write the screenplay, and the film earned an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay. In this inspiring talk, Bloom will share true stories and life lessons showing that when you bet on yourself in business, you can always win.

VIRTUAL KEYNOTE: MAKE EVERY CUSTOMER FEEL LIKE A HIGH ROLLER

Molly Bloom didn’t know a thing about running a poker business when she was asked to set up the most exclusive high stakes poker game in Hollywood. She was faced with the daunting question: how do you create an experience that will keep the rich and famous coming back when they can go anywhere to play poker? Molly found if she built a unique customer culture, not only would players come back, the game would become so exclusive that everyone would want to be a part of it. In this exciting and informative talk, Bloom shows how she created an experience like no other for her players and how you can apply the same principles for creating an exclusive experience for your customers.

VIRTUAL KEYNOTE: THE MYTHOLOGY OF MOLLY'S GAME: STORYTELLING TO BUILD AND GROW YOUR BRAND

In business, story is one of the most powerful tools you can use to sell your product, your brand, and yourself. For poker entrepreneur Molly Bloom, her product, brand, and person were one and the same: Molly’s Game. The stories she used to sell and market her poker business helped turn an underground poker game into a multimillion-dollar enterprise. In this funny and enlightening talk, Molly shares the insider secrets that helped her create the most popular poker game in L.A. and New York.

VIRTUAL KEYNOTE: HOW TO BEAT THE GAME NO MATTER WHAT CARDS YOU'RE HOLDING