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Orphaned Young Adults in Haiti, A Forgotten Group
Astrid de Vries, Founder / President, Kids Connection Haiti
TOPIC CATEGORY: Educational
Imagine being 18 years old, ready to spread your wings, eager to go to college or find a job. An exciting time in your life, right? Now imagine being 18 years old, without a family, without a diploma, without any working experience and without a network. What would you do? Where would you go? MORE >
Have you ever thought about the impact a stable family life has on your (professional and personal) development? With a 40% unemployment- and illiteracy rate countrywide, orphans in Haiti suffer the most.Kids Connection Haiti was founded to empower orphans in Haiti to become contributing, self-sufficient members within their communities through education, life skills training, community service, mentorship, and career development. We would love to share with you how Kids Connection Haiti has been successful in empowering these young men and women create financially independent futures.
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The Art of Overcoming the Confidence Gap
Catherine A. Wood, Founder & Head Coach, Unbounded Potential
TOPIC CATEGORY: Business
A magical concept for some, highly desired by most in business and in life. What is the secret to confidence? In this interactive session, you will uncover the secret to confidence and walk away with 5 ways to get yours back. MORE >
We will explore and discuss what creates confidence and what gets in the way of yours. We will look at what you can take on and who you can be to bust up the myth that you're not confident. You'll walk away from the workshop with the inspiration and time tested tools to confidence creation. -
What’s My Purpose? Create the Thing You Wish Existed
Katie DePaola, Founder and CEO, Inner Glow Circle
TOPIC CATEGORY: Motivational
We’re all looking for our purpose to make sense of this life. We can find a sense purpose in many things - community, family, career, spiritual life. But our true purpose, no matter the sphere, is to create the thing we wish existed in the world. MORE >
The problem is that most of us are largely taught to complain about the things we don’t like rather than change them. Complaints are low responsibility ways to ask for what we need. To reach our next level, both individually and collectively, we need to become more active than passive.Yes, we live in a difficult and often disheartening world, but the question is what can we do about it?
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From Pain to Purpose: How to Turn Life’s Hardest Moments into Your Greatest Opportunities.
Katie DePaola, Founder and CEO, Inner Glow Circle
TOPIC CATEGORY: Motivational
After a broken engagement, losing her brother, and a 10 year battle with chronic illness, Katie DePaola has finally found her glow. In 2015, Katie opened the doors to Inner Glow Circle, a coach training and personal branding company for women. Within months, her youngest brother died of an accidental overdose. MORE >
This monumental lose set off a domino effect of changes and challenges, but through it Katie learned to survive by doubling down on her commitment to her vision. Even on the most ill or grief stricken days, her power lies in her purpose.Now, Katie teaches others how to make their hardest life experiences their greatest opportunities through the principles of Post Traumatic Growth (PTG). PTG is the subject of a growing field of research into the healing that may be accessed when we choose to grow from our trauma and lose.
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Top Ten Questions to Help Face the End-of-Life
Lars Etzkorn, Lawyer, Lars Etzkorn Law PLLC
TOPIC CATEGORY: Financial
Of course, you know procrastination doesn't forestall the inevitable; it just means you will be unprepared. We know life is full of change and that all of us face end-of-life issues. To help prepare for a good death, here are some questions to consider with your loved ones, friends and advisors.
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Estate Planning 101: What You Need to Know
Lars Etzkorn, Lawyer, Lars Etzkorn Law PLLC
TOPIC CATEGORY: Financial
Do you really need a Last Will and Testament? What is a trust? What are the documents needed to protect you and your loved ones in case of incapacity? Learn what you need, how to find a lawyer, and how much it will likely cost to get an estate plan.
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You and Birthday Cake Alone in a Room: The Unexpected Truth to Maximizing Diet Willpower
Laura Ellen, Nutritionist + Life Coach, Laura Ellen Coaching
TOPIC CATEGORY: Health & Fitness
The formula to health and weight loss seems pretty clear: Don’t eat sweets or junk food. Exercise. Reach your body goals. If it’s so clear, then why do so many people have to return to dieting year after year? And why do 93% of dieters put on more weight than they originally lost? And why can one inanimate cake cause us to act in exactly the opposite way of our goals? MORE >
Laura Ellen breaks down how the conventional weight loss and fitness industries’ approach to dieting sabotages willpower and is the cause of their terrible client success rates. She then teaches practical, science-proven methods to maximizing diet willpower and motivation that you’ve never heard from a health professional before. -
Stop Hiding Your Wrappers: How Food + Body Shame Keep Us from Our Healthiest Selves
Laura Ellen, Nutritionist + Life Coach, Laura Ellen Coaching
TOPIC CATEGORY: Health & Fitness
In her years as a nutrition student, wellness consultant, and now as a health coach, Laura Ellen has come to realize one very key trend: we’re all keeping the same secret, hoping nobody finds out our secret. And that secret is - we all feel crazy with food. MORE >
From doctors, to physique competitors, to weight loss clients, Laura has worked with person after person who is waiting to get they’re eating “under control” before they really show up in the world - professionally, personally, or otherwise. And it’s this waiting and hiding, not the eating itself, that keeps them stuck in the same habits.In this talk, Laura Ellen breaks down how shame perpetuates unwanted eating behaviors and keeps up from our health and diet goals rather than motivating us to success.
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Get The Clients You Want… Without Being Salesy
Leah Neaderthal, Sales Coach for Women Entrepreneurs and Founder, Smart Gets Paid
TOPIC CATEGORY: Business
You started your own business, which is awesome... until you need to get new clients. How do you sign new clients without being salesy? Leah Neaderthal, sales coach for women business owners, shares exactly how. Join Leah to learn: How to stop saying yes to just any client... and start getting the clients you really want; How to use the sales process to build great client relationships; How to be authentically yourself... even when you're selling MORE >
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How To Hypnotize Yourself For Success
Lydia Michalitsianos, CEO, Build Yourself Inside, LLC.
TOPIC CATEGORY: Entertainment
As a performance and comedy hypnotist, Lydia shares her secrets to continued success in business through live demonstration and commentary as she hypnotizes volunteers on stage to act out simple skits. Thus, demonstrating the power of the mind and the imagination to create dramatic and long-lasting results in the lives of business professionals, athletes, leaders, and more. MORE >