Speaking & Inservices
Motivational & Keynote Addresses
THE MAGICAL GIFT OF BREAKTHROUGH & TRANSFORMATION
I had to die eight times to discover what life really had in store for me.
As a Best-Selling Author & Transformation Coach, I share my unique gifts, inspiration and passion to promote the breakthroughs required to embrace the best version of ourselves.
Even if you were imaginative, you couldn’t make up the crazy life that I’ve lived.
Raised primarily in suburban Los Angeles, I had no idea what life had in store for me. Educated in some of the finest institutions and having traveled the world, I consider myself intelligent, articulate and culturally fluent- you’d never know that I have a Traumatic Brain Injury, endured extensive sexual assault and sex trafficking, nor that I was paralyzed during graduate school after an accident. If you met me, you might be impressed with my diplomacy, grace and sassy wit, but you wouldn’t be able to tell that I’ve experienced cardiac arrest eight times, once while giving birth to twins prematurely (after being told I could never have kids!). While others might have given up in response to such extensive trauma and tragedy, my amazing resilience has enabled me to use my experiences to assist others.
My storytelling style will allow you to experience life as I have lived it, and you’ll receive inspirational messages that will uplift and inspire.
Breaking Through to Best in 10 Easy Steps
How to Amplify your Intuition, Clarity, Vision, Motivation & Productivity
For conscious executives and entrepreneurs, it is not only imperative to outperform the competition, but it is mandatory to reach those goals through authentic, empowered and compassionate leadership.
From Trauma to Triumph
Gleaning Meaning from Painful Life Events
It has not only been my professional mission, but also my personal journey.
The Secret to
Conception
Identifying and Resolving Hidden Factors in Fertility
After a decade yearning for a child of my own, and investing over $100,000 in infertility tests and treatments, I was told that I would never achieve a healthy pregnancy.
CORPORATE TRAINING & INSERVICES
Personal Sustainability for Leaders
One of the most compelling elements of a great leader is the passion that s/he brings to the mission.
But the tireless expression of passion, unless emanating from a Higher Source, will eventually deplete the leader.
Leaders in this fast-paced, hard-driven world must attend first and foremost to their own sustainability and then to that of their team members, otherwise whatever intentions and goals were set will go by the wayside.
While every leader is different in how they ramp up, plug in and later decompress, there are some strategies for personal sustainability that will be common to every toolkit. The following are tools that can be taught to a leadership team or an entire corporation.
Morning rituals: The development of personal morning ritual depends on what you enjoy and what enables you to create foundation for the remainder of your day. Most highly effective people engage in a combination of healthy nutrition, exercise, meditation, prayer and journaling before heading into their work day to achieve the best focus, concentration, and harnessed energy.
Connection: Tuning into your body, mind and spirit is essential if you’re hoping to function effectively in the home and in the workplace. By engaging in mindfulness, you better understand the signals your own body receives and sends, as well as the messages being received from others. When you engage with others, the first step is ALWAYS connection- whether through a handshake, meeting of the eyes, energetic experience or through written or spoken word. Understanding how your employee, client or other connects advances your interaction intuitively and effectively.
Communication strategies: One of the most important experiences for team members and clients (as well as loved ones!) is to feel seen and heard. While you may believe that you’re listening, you also have to ensure that you’re hearing the message that’s been sent! Learning to speak assertively, listen both actively and passively, and consistently check in with your audience (whether one or many!) is a MUST for leaders.
Release and play: When tensions run high, often leaders try to dig in deeper. By taking a step back to de-stress, a leader can reinvigorate his/her energy and approach the situation again with fresh eyes and an open heart.
Clearing the decks: Whether you need to set aside limiting beliefs and ideas, memory of past experience, or even just wash the day away, developing rituals for wiping the slate clean is imperative for avoiding getting stuck!
Critical Incident Stress Debriefing
The goals of a CISD are to alleviate the emotional and physical effects of the incident, accelerate the recovery process, prevent PTSD and return personnel to a pre-crisis level of functioning.
A critical incident is any situation faced by a person that causes him or her to experience unusually strong emotional and/or physical reactions. These reactions may have the potential to interfere with the person’s abilities to function either at the scene, in family life, or even later in life.
A sub-critical incident can be defined as an event that may not be perceived as traumatic to a majority of people or as an event that falls outside the traditional or officially defined parameters of a critical incident. However, it is an event which is capable of causing a stressful emotional impact in an individual due to the meaning(s) a person ascribes to that event.
Nielsen suggested that the more skills, training, warning and social supports a person has, combined with a reduction of physical and psychological proximity and concurrent stress, the better the likelihood for a favorable outcome and a reduction in the likelihood of PTSD.
In these trainings, we help your personnel discuss the incident and receive support in a non-judgmental and supportive way. We address:
- FACTS: “What happened?”
- THOUGHTS: “What did you think about what occurred?”
- EXPERIENCES: “What were the most traumatic aspects of the event for those that experienced it?”
- FEELINGS AND SYMPTOMS: “What are the personal symptoms of distress that participants noticed?”
Dig deep. Let all the nonsense go. Embrace who you are. Share it with others.
Those of us at the Sage Wisdom Institute are here to make your life easier.
If you are interested in having us address your team, organization or community , we are happy to provide any of the above keynotes or inservices. If you have a specific topic that you’d like for us to discuss with your team, we are happy to consider developing and presenting alternative experiences!