Eight weeks. No script. 2.4 million views. 1 global social impact award.
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Contact: Brian Miller, Founder & Principal Consultant
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VIRGINIA BEACH, VA (November 5, 2026) Clarity Up Consulting has won a Bronze Anthem Award in the 6th Annual Anthem Awards, in the Thought Leadership Content or Series category under Health. The award recognizes "How to Recognize Perfectly Hidden Depression," the TEDxBocaRaton talk that messaging consultant Brian Miller developed with and for clinical psychologist Dr. Margaret Rutherford.
Winners were selected from more than 2,500 submissions from 43 countries by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences (IADAS).
The talk
Dr. Rutherford came to Brian Miller less than eight weeks before she was due on the TEDxBocaRaton stage. She had no script and a deep fear of public speaking. She had been invited to speak on the subject of her book, Perfectly Hidden Depression: emotional pain that hides behind achievement, perfectionism, and a life that looks fine from the outside.
Her biggest concern was the subject itself. Depression and suicidal thoughts are dark and sensitive, and she wanted people to leave the talk understanding them, not overwhelmed by them. Miller worked with her to write the script and prepare her delivery around that goal.
The talk has since been viewed more than 2.4 million times. Since it went live, Dr. Rutherford has secured speaker representation, spoken at events and on podcasts around the world, twice served as a mental health expert for Sword Health in Portugal, and signed a follow-up book deal.
Watch her award-winning talk here:
Why it matters
"Margaret had already done the hardest part. She put a name to something millions of people were living with and couldn't describe," said Brian Miller, Founder and Principal Consultant of Clarity Up. "Our job was to make a heavy subject feel safe enough to hear, so the people who needed that name would recognize themselves or a loved one in it. Dr. Rutherford gave a gift not only to those living with perfectly hidden depression, but to therapists around the world who now have a shared language to recognize and treat it."
Other 2026 Anthem Award winners include The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Johnson & Johnson, Doctors Without Borders, AARP, Sesame Workshop, The LEGO Group, and The Rockefeller Foundation.
This is Clarity Up's third Anthem Award in two years. In 2025, "How to Be an Activist Who Creates Real Change," developed with and for Carey Theil and Christine Dorchak of GREY2K USA Worldwide, won a Silver Anthem Award and the Anthem Community Voice Award in Humanitarian Action & Services. The firm's work has also received six Cicero Speechwriting Awards and four Communicator Awards of Excellence.
About the Anthem Awards
The Webby Awards launched the Anthem Awards in 2021 to recognize brands, nonprofits, and individuals doing social impact work worldwide. Awards span seven cause areas, including Health and Humanitarian Action & Services. Gold, Silver, and Bronze winners are selected by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences (IADAS).
About Dr. Margaret Rutherford
Dr. Margaret Rutherford is a clinical psychologist, author, and TEDx speaker who coined the term "perfectly hidden depression." She is the author of Perfectly Hidden Depression and The Perfectly Hidden Depression Workbook, and hosts the SelfWork podcast, which ranks in the top 0.5% of podcasts worldwide. Learn more at drmargaretrutherford.com.
About Clarity Up Consulting
Clarity Up Consulting is a boutique firm in Virginia Beach, Virginia, specializing in core messaging and speech design for experts, leaders, and founders. Founder Brian Miller has consulted on more than 45 TEDx talks with a combined 20 million views across 30+ subject areas and 11 distinct industries. He is one of the co-founders of Core Messaging as a formal discipline and the author of The One-Page Keynote (Rethink Press, 2026), a #1 Amazon bestseller. Learn more at clarityupconsulting.com.
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