Bring Me To Your Stage
Empowered Survivor | HEALing Mentor | Author | Inspirational Speaker | Former Forensic Accountant and Corporate Executive
My message to audiences...
...follows the subtitle of my book, You, Too, Can HEAL: hope, evolve, and love – as actions. I am a living testament to the power of healing and the transformation that it brings into our lives. I have done the hard work, taken the hero’s journey, freed myself from suffering, and now thriving. I am eager to share my passion for HEALing with others, including other survivors.
As an Empowered Survivor Keynote Speaker, I can’t lose sight of who else I am, which also informs what I speak to audiences about. With deep Texan roots, I am a citizen of the world, having grown up in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. My thirty-year career in professional services was punctuated by world travels, providing forensic accounting and fact-finding expertise to companies investigating complex fraud and white-collar crime schemes. My international experiences gave me a global perspective.
Altogether, my life experiences gave me an understanding of the gamut of human emotion and a deep understanding of human suffering.
“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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Keynotes
Becoming An Empowered Survivor
As a keynote speaker, I share my inspirational story of becoming an Empowered Survivor after living my life as a survivor burdened by unhealthy survivorship for forty-five years. I use my story to illustrate my journey and share my message with other survivors that you, too, can HEAL. Ultimately, the reward for healing is a life filled with joy and love, in which we thrive and inspire others.
Key Audience Takeaways:
- Understanding why we need to heal.
- Discovering HEALing in three actions: hope, evolve, and love.
- Reframing the hardest parts of healing.
- Forgiving? There is a different way to let go.
Audience: Survivors of any type of trauma and abuse; providers of the myriad services that help survivors of trauma and abuse to heal.
Life/Work Integration Amid Personal Crises
In this keynote, I share my story about going through the most challenging time in my life just after being promoted to a leadership position at work. I talk about what happened to me personally, how that impacted my ability to do my job, and how I managed (or didn’t) both simultaneously.
Key Audience Takeaways:
- Life happens to us despite our accountability and responsibility at work.
- The practical reality that “work/life balance” should be “life/work integration.”
- Strategies for successfully integrating what’s happening to you during a personal crisis into your work.
Audience: Employees, managers, executives, and leaders in organizations.
Second Mountain Ascension
In this keynote, I share my second mountain journey to living my life’s purpose. I was in a quandary about my life’s purpose for years, partially because my journey required me to be unaware for many years as I lived that part of my story. But today, I am very clear about why I am alive and have transitioned to my second mountain. Audience members will leave thinking about their life’s purpose, and perhaps some second mountain people will be inspired to begin their ascension.
Key Audience Takeaways:
- Understand service-centered work, described through my story of discovery, interpreted from David Brooks’ book The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life.
- Consider whether you are a second mountain person, now or in the future.
- How to make the transition from self-centered work to service-centered purpose.
Audience: People looking for inspiration to find and pursue their life purpose.
“Authentic communication and transparency with your leadership, peers and team are paramount to navigating personal crises when you have accountability and responsibility within your organization. Integrating your life into your work, the way it should be, requires you to ask for help from those who can give it to you. But they need to know why you are asking, which is where authenticity and transparency comes into play. I didn’t sugar coat it. Talking about what I was going through got easier over time. And in the end, I gained more respect from the organization as a whole.” - from Keynote Topic: Life/Work Integration Amid Personal Crises
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