Beth Jones - Bring Me To Your Stage

Bring The HEALing Mentor To Your Stage

Empowered Survivor | Two-Time Bestselling Author | Podcast Host: Let's HEAL! with Beth Jones | Creator of The HEAL Framework™ | 30+ Years Corporate Leadership | Certified Storyteller

Beth's message to audiences...

...follows the subtitle of her book, You, Too, Can HEAL: hope, evolve, and love – in action.

Beth Jones transforms the world's deepest wounds into its greatest wisdom. Beth spent 30 years as a senior forensic investigator exposing corporate fraud worldwide for firms like FTI Consulting and EY. Behind her executive success? A 45-year wall built from childhood sexual abuse, unprocessed trauma, and survival at all costs.

In June 2020, a hypnotherapy session revealed the truth she'd buried for decades—launching her journey from high-functioning survivor to thriving healing mentor. Today, as the founder of Empowered Survivors, LLC, creator of the HEAL Framework™, host of the podcast Let's HEAL! with Beth Jones, and author of Becoming an Empowered Survivor, she proves that healing is possible, purpose emerges from pain, and transformation is available to anyone willing to do the work.

A Texan who grew up in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, Beth brings both an international perspective and a Southern heart to stages worldwide.

“Beth's courage in sharing her survival story is truly inspiring. Her strength motivates me to face my own challenges with hope and confidence that things will be okay in the end.”

Yovi S.

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Media Assets

Booking Guidance for Event Planners

Choose...

"Let's HEAL!" if: Your audience is ready for deep emotional work and wants the full transformation story with a practical healing framework.

"When Life Happens at Work" if: Your audience is corporate/professional and needs strategies for maintaining excellence during personal crises.

"Redefining Abundance" if: Your audience is successful but unfulfilled, questioning their purpose, or considering a major career/life pivot.

"You, Too, Can Heal" if: Your audience is broad/general, new to healing concepts, or needs an accessible introduction without intense emotional processing.

"There, But For God’s Grace" if: Your audience works directly with addiction/recovery/trauma survivors OR needs to understand that grace—not character—separates thriving from suffering. Requires pre-booking conversation with Beth.

 

While Beth’s presentations can be tailored to specific demographics, her messages are suitable for everyone, including men and women of various age groups. Available up to 60 minutes in duration as keynotes, workshops & breakout sessions, panel discussions, podcast & media interviews... you name it!

Signature Talks

Let's HEAL!: How to Transform Your Deepest Wounds into Your Greatest Strength

Beth Jones Keynote Speaker on the ranch

Best for: Survivor Communities | Wellness Programs, Organizations and Communities | Women's Groups & Conferences| Empowerment Conferences | Corporate/Leadership | Entrepreneurs | Personal Development Events

Emotional Intensity: High

 

Beth Jones takes audiences on a powerful journey from childhood trauma survivor to thriving healing mentor, revealing how she dismantled the 45-year emotional wall built from abuse and unprocessed pain. Through visceral storytelling and practical frameworks, she demonstrates that our deepest wounds—when healed with intention—become our most significant source of strength and a means of service to others. Beth's raw vulnerability, combined with practical healing strategies, inspires audiences to stop suffering because others hurt them, commit to their own healing journey, and ultimately transform their deepest pain into their greatest purpose.

Key Audience Takeaways:

  • The HEAL Framework™: A proven roadmap for transforming pain into purpose through Hope, Evolve, and Love in action
  • Breaking Through Invisible Walls: How to identify and dismantle the emotional barriers keeping you stuck in survival mode
  • From Wounds to Wisdom: Practical strategies for transforming your most challenging experiences into authentic sources of strength and service
  • The Heart-First Approach: Why emotional healing is the leverage point for all resilience and lasting transformation

Main Learning Points:

  1. The Wound-to-Strength Alchemy: How Pain Becomes Power Your deepest wounds aren't flaws to hide—they're the raw material for your most authentic strengths and unique gifts.
  2. Breaking Through the Walls That Keep You Small            Trauma and unprocessed emotions build invisible walls that limit your potential—but these walls can be dismantled brick by brick
  3. From Healing to Leading: Your Transformed Life as Service When you transform your wounds into strengths, you don't just heal yourself—you become a source of healing and strength for others.

When Life Happens at Work: The Integration Strategy for Leading Through Personal Crisis

Beth Jones Keynote Speaker with women in audience.

Best for: C-Suite & Senior Executives | Middle Management & Team Leaders | HR & People Leaders | Women's Leadership Groups | Working Parents | Entrepreneurs & Small Business Owners | Recently Divorced/Separated Professionals | Professionals Facing Major Life Transitions | Professionals Dealing with Addiction (in any form)

Emotional Intensity: Moderate

Life doesn't ask permission before it disrupts your career trajectory. When personal upheaval collides with professional responsibility, most leaders try to compartmentalize—and inevitably burn out or break down. Discover the powerful integration approach that allows you to honor your full humanity while maintaining leadership excellence.

When Beth Jones discovered childhood trauma and her marriage collapsed while leading a team of 125 people across Asia as a senior executive, she faced an impossible choice: keep compartmentalizing and risk breakdown, or show up as a whole human and risk her career. Through her journey from exhausted split-screen living to strategic vulnerability with her boss—who responded with support rather than judgment—Beth reveals the integration framework that allows leaders to honor their full humanity during personal crisis while maintaining professional excellence. Her honest account of leading through divorce and trauma therapy, while successfully managing her team during the COVID-19 pandemic, proves that authentic leadership builds trust rather than destroying it, and that integration—not balance—is the key to sustainable performance when life inevitably disrupts one's career.

Key Audience Takeaways:

  • Integration vs. Balance: Why "work-life balance" creates more stress, and how integration builds sustainable success and authentic leadership
  • Strategic Vulnerability: How to communicate your needs honestly during a personal crisis without compromising credibility or career trajectory
  • Sustainable Excellence: Moving from burnout-prone compartmentalization to whole-human leadership that builds both results and resilience
  • Building Psychological Safety: Creating support structures—for yourself and your team—that allow everyone to perform at their best during life's inevitable storms

Main Learning Points:

  1. The Integration Imperative: Why Balance is a Myth That's Failing You "Work-life balance" assumes you can compartmentalize your humanity—but integration acknowledges that you're one whole person navigating multiple responsibilities.
  2. Crisis Communication: Leading with Authenticity Without Losing Credibility Vulnerability and strength aren't opposites—authentic communication about your challenges actually builds trust and leadership credibility when done skillfully.
  3. Sustainable Excellence: Building Systems That Support You Through Storms High performance during personal crisis requires intentional systems and strategies—not just "powering through" or "staying strong."

Redefining Abundance: The Purpose Pivot from Achievement to Fulfillment

Beth Jones Keynote Speaker - Hands up Second Mountain Ascension

Best for: High Achievers Feeling Empty Despite Success | Midlife Professionals Questioning Purpose | Executives Considering Career Pivots | Second-Career Seekers | Pre-Retirees & Early Retirees | Entrepreneurs Ready to Pivot | Nonprofit Transition Professionals | Professionals 40+ | Former Athletes & Military | Legacy-Minded Leaders | Spiritual Seekers in Business

Emotional Intensity: Moderate

What if everything you've been taught about abundance is wrong? High achievers who chase money, titles, and possessions often discover that external success can't fill an internal void. Discover how to pivot from hollow achievement to fulfilling purpose—and create the kind of abundance that actually satisfies your soul.

After 32 years climbing the corporate mountain to senior executive roles at the global consultancy firms FTI Consulting and EY—earning seven figures, owning multiple properties, and checking every box of traditional success—Beth Jones stood at the top and felt completely empty. Through her journey from achievement-based scarcity to purpose-driven fulfillment, Beth reveals why external accumulation creates internal emptiness and how to make the pivot from "first mountain" hollow success to "second mountain" meaningful work. Her raw account of transitioning from forensic investigator to healing mentor—building the bridge between financial security and soul-satisfying purpose—shows audiences how to identify their life's true work, create a practical transition strategy, and redefine abundance as impact and contribution rather than titles and possessions.

Key Audience Takeaways:

  • First Mountain vs. Second Mountain: How to recognize when you're climbing the wrong mountain and ready for your purpose pivot
  • The Fulfillment Framework: Practical strategies for identifying work that feeds your soul, not just your bank account
  • The Transition Bridge: How to pivot to purpose-driven work without sacrificing financial security or professional credibility
  • Abundance Mindset Shift: Moving from accumulation-based thinking to contribution-based living for lasting satisfaction and legacy beyond achievement

Main Learning Points:

  1. The Abundance Illusion: Why External Success Creates Internal Scarcity Traditional markers of abundance (money, titles, possessions) create a scarcity mindset that keeps you constantly chasing more while feeling increasingly empty.
  2. The Purpose Pivot: Finding Work That Feeds Your Soul True abundance comes from aligning your work with your authentic purpose—moving from what you can get to what you can give.
  3. Living in True Abundance: When Fulfillment Becomes Your New Success Metric Real abundance is measured by impact, fulfillment, and meaningful relationships—creating a life rich in purpose rather than possessions.

You, Too, Can Heal: 3 Truths That Change Everything You Believe About Healing

Beth Jones with LOVE graffiti - Keynote Speaker - 3 Truths That Change Everything

Best for: General audiences | Wellness programs | Corporate wellness | New-to-healing | Workplace Mental Health & Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) | Mental Health Awareness Events | Community Health Organizations & Events | Faith Communities & Churches | College & University Wellness Programs | Women's Groups & Organizations |  Support Groups (various types) | Personal Development Conferences | Self-Help & Growth Communities | Social Services Organizations | Mental Health Professionals & Provider Conferences

Emotional Intensity: Low-Moderate

Most people believe healing from trauma is complicated, requires years of therapy, or simply isn't possible for them. Beth Jones dismantles these myths by revealing three foundational truths that make healing accessible to everyone: we are ALL survivors carrying wounds that need healing, YOU can heal regardless of what you've survived, and the path forward is simpler than you think—it just requires you to Hope, Evolve, and Love in action. Through her journey from 45 years behind an emotional wall to thriving as a healing mentor, Beth proves that understanding these three truths creates the foundation for transformation. Audiences leave with permission to begin their healing journey, clarity about what healing actually requires, and hope that the life they want is possible—because if Beth can heal, you can too.

Key Audience Takeaways:

  • We Are ALL Survivors: Understanding that everyone carries trauma—whether "Big T" or "little t"—and recognizing your own survival patterns is the first step toward healing
  • Healing Is Possible for YOU: Why your wounds don't define you, how others have transformed their deepest pain into their greatest strength, and why "you, too, can heal" isn't just a message—it's a promise
  • The HEAL Framework™: The simple, proven roadmap for transformation through Hope (the fuel that sustains you), Evolve (tools and self-discovery for change), and Love (the greatest gift you give yourself)
  • Permission to Begin: How to start your healing journey TODAY with clarity and confidence, knowing that healing doesn't require perfection—just commitment to showing up for yourself

Main Three Learning Points:

  1. TRUTH #1: We Are ALL Survivors

    Everyone carries wounds, so you must learn to recognize the universal experience of trauma and understand that you’re not alone in your pain as the first step toward healing.

  2. TRUTH #2: You, Too, Can Heal

    Healing isn't reserved for certain people or certain types of trauma. Regardless of what you've survived, how long you've been stuck, or how impossible transformation feels—you, too, can heal. Beth’s life proves it!

  3. TRUTH #3: Healing Is as Simple as Hope, Evolve, and Love

    Healing isn't complicated or mysterious—it's a straightforward approach of hope as the fuel that sustains you, evolving by using tools and self-discovery for transformation, and love--showing up for yourself and others from a healed place. When you understand these three elements, healing becomes accessible and actionable.

Special Keynote: There, But for God’s Grace
Understanding the Thin Line Between Surviving and Suffering

Beth Jones with painted wall- Keynote Speaker - There, But for God’s Grace

Special Note for Booking: This keynote requires significant emotional maturity from audiences and is Beth's most vulnerable presentation. It's particularly powerful for faith communities, recovery organizations, and groups working directly with trauma survivors. Beth's willingness to share her own reckless past—including substance abuse and near-misses with devastating consequences—creates a profound connection and breaks down the "us vs. them" mentality that often surrounds addiction and recovery.

Best for: Faith Communities & Churches | Addiction/Recovery Organizations | Substance Abuse Treatment Centers | 12-Step Programs & Support Groups | Healthcare & Social Services | Criminal Justice/Reentry Programs | Women's Shelters & Domestic Violence | At-risk Youth & Teen Programs | Homeless Services & Shelters | Halfway Houses & Sober Living Facilities | Prison Ministry & Chaplaincy Programs | Family Services Organizations | Foster Care & Child Welfare Organizations | Veterans Services Organizations | Crisis Intervention Teams | Harm Reduction Programs | Faith-Based Recovery Programs | Nonprofit Organizations Serving Vulnerable Populations | Trauma Recovery Centers | Pastoral Care Conferences | Social Work & Counseling Conferences

Emotional Intensity: Very High
Length Options: 20-min

What separates someone who thrives from someone who barely survives? What keeps one person from falling into addiction while another can't escape? The uncomfortable truth: often nothing but grace. Through raw, unflinching storytelling, discover how trauma, pain, and suffering manifest differently in each of us—and why compassion, not judgment, is the only appropriate response.

Beth Jones opens with a confession few successful executives would dare make: for years she drove under the influence of cocaine and alcohol, calculated which roads had fewer police, fell asleep at the wheel repeatedly, and was an investor in illegal gambling machines connected to someone who ordered a hit on a sheriff's life—yet she was never caught and went on to lead global investigations at FTI Consulting and EY. Through her raw account of reckless behavior that could have led to prison or death, Beth reveals the uncomfortable truth: the only difference between her corner office and someone else's rock bottom is grace—not character, not willpower, but the unearned mercy of a higher power. Her unflinching honesty about dissociation, escape mechanisms, and the 45-year wall built from childhood sexual abuse breaks down the "us vs. them" mentality around addiction and suffering, proving that we're all just survivors trying to escape unbearable pain in different ways—and that compassion, not judgment, creates the conditions for healing.

Key Audience Takeaways:

  • The Grace Factor: Understanding how circumstance, not character, often determines who falls into destructive patterns and who doesn't
  • Beyond Judgment: Moving from "why don't they just stop" to "what happened to them that they need to escape"—transforming judgment into compassion
  • The Escape Instinct: How dissociation, addiction, and self-destructive behaviors are survival mechanisms, not moral failures
  • Hope Through Healing: The HEAL Framework™ works for any survivor—whether struggling with addiction, workaholism, or other destructive patterns
  • Shared Humanity: Seeing yourself in those who suffer differently than you do creates the conditions for collective healing

Main Three Learning Points:

  1. The Only Difference Is Grace: How Trauma Manifests Differently

    The line between functional survival and destructive coping is thinner than most people realize—often it's just circumstance, access to help, or pure grace that determines which side you land on.

  2. The Anatomy of Escape: Why People Choose Destruction

    No one chooses addiction or self-destruction—they choose escape from pain they don't know how to process, and those behaviors become the prison.

  3. Healing Is Possible: The Path From Suffering to Thriving

    With the right support, resources, and a commitment to healing, anyone can break free from destructive patterns and transform their suffering into a source of strength.

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Contact me at beth@empoweredsurvivors.com - I'm happy to answer any questions and discuss how I can serve your audience!