AUTHOR | SPEAKER | COACH
ACTOR | ENTERTAINER

MOVE FORWARD MESSY The Confidence Shortcut For Your Bigger Life
Confidence isn’t something you wait for. It’s something you build.
MOVE FORWARD MESSY is part memoir, part method, and part movement. It's a practical guide for anyone who is tired of waiting to feel ready.
Through honest stories, nervous-system science, mindset shifts, and tiny experiments in courage, Niki shows you how to break free from perfectionism and self-doubt, build confidence through action, and start moving toward the life you truly want.
Ready never comes. Perfect doesn’t exist.
Your bigger life is built one tiny, brave step at a time.


If you had all the confidence, time, energy, and money in the world, what would you be doing?
MOVE FORWARD MESSY is a podcast and YouTube series about everyday people finding the courage to go after the lives they truly want.
Through honest conversations, real stories, and practical tools, you’ll learn how to build confidence, move before you feel ready, and take the next tiny, brave step toward your bigger life.
.png)
Sweet Body
Award-Winning Short Film by Niki Sterner
Sweet Body is a dark comedy about an over-the-top, perfectionistic mom who’s doing everything except feeling what’s really going on. At her daughter’s 18th birthday party, she serves funky shrimp salad, gives questionable college advice, and tries way too hard to relate, all because she wants one last moment of connection before her daughter leaves for college. But when she can’t express what she truly feels, it comes out sideways through awkward, quirky misfires that threaten the very relationship she’s trying to protect.
AWARDS & HONORS
• Best Director — Atlanta Comedy Film Festival
Niki Sterner & Hannah Pniewski
• Best Dark Comedy — Women’s Comedy Film Festival
• Best Dark Comedy — Atlanta Short Film Festival
• Best Dark Comedy — Georgia Comedy Film Festival
Get supported. Get clear.
Get moving.
The most supportive way to work with me.
This 8-week mentorship gives you personalized coaching, a proven confidence-building framework, and the accountability you need to take bold, consistent action on your creative dreams. You’ll get weekly 1:1 support, daily courage practices, and a full year inside the Move Forward Messy Momentum Group to keep you moving long after the eight weeks are over.

.png)
