Ellie Shoja is an award-winning writer, mindset expert, and motivational speaker with a passion for inspiring personal transformation that creates positive, lasting impact in the world. She helps thought leaders, companies, and brands amplify their voices and influence through impactful storytelling. The daughter of an International con man, Ellie moved over thirty times, lived on three continents, and spent a year-and-a-half in refugee camps in Germany before immigrating to the United States at the age of fifteen. She overcame isolation, poverty, severe nervous tics, and suicidal ideation to build her dream life, surrounded by abundance, joy, and creativity. Today, Ellie shares the same mindset shifts, tools, and strategies that helped her transform from depressed and suicidal into thriving and at peace.
Ellie is a two-time TEDx speaker and worked as a film and television producer. She even appeared in an episode of the Impractical Jokers on TruTV.
