All Topics in Washington D.C.
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Your voice creates: Men should not yell at women
Gary Gracia, Zilah
TOPIC CATEGORY: Self Improvement
I had to learn the hard way that talking, yelling, screaming and shouting in high volumes does something to women. Women have tolerated a lot because of how people talk to them but as my wife has taught me (she likes to use the word train), women should not accept being spoken to like that. Someone needs to educate men and women to love with women even when someone is rude. MORE >
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Your Progress is Holding You Back
Cheryl Abram, Learning Doula, Ypifany
TOPIC CATEGORY: Business
In this high energy session, Cheryl helps decision-makers see and understand why change is necessary, difficult and rewarding. As the accountable party, decision-makers need to evolve while embracing real change. The session includes practical guidance for how to cultivate the power of personal accountability at home and at work.
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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. -
Why Should We Become More Active?
Anastasia Martynova, Founder and President, Your Sunshine
TOPIC CATEGORY: Health & Fitness
It is known that physical activities are an essential part of having a satisfactory quality of life. Activities encourage forming social interactions, enhance self-worth, and strengthen biological functions. This is especially true for children with special needs. Even further, according to the U.S Department of Health & Human Services, the benefits of physical activities for persons with disabilities are immeasurable: ranging from improving psychological issues such as anxiety and depression, improving joint pain and swelling discomforts, and decreasing the chance of getting colon cancer, diabetes, and high blood pressure (Persons with Disabilities). MORE >
Nonetheless, there are some barriers to engaging in physical activities. According to a scholarly study, factors include " child's lack of interest (43%), lack of developmentally appropriate programs (33%), too many behavioral problems (32%), and parents' lack of time (29%)"(Yazdani et al., 2013). However, the study concluded that it all boils down to the parental physical activity and lifestyle, which reflects on how much their child would contribute in physical activities regardless of the barriers (Yazdani et al., 2013). Activities that includes both the parent and the child are ideal. The child would have the emotional support they need and a role model to follow. Ultimately resulting in a healthy and happy life. -
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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Wellness for the Busy Professional
Michelle Rhodes, Nurse Entrepreneur, Michelle Rhodes Media
TOPIC CATEGORY: Health & Fitness
Objectives: Learner will identify 6 types of wellness, Discuss how to improve it, Where to access resources.
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Vet 2 Success – A Program for Veterans Transitioning from Military to Civilian Life
Jailyn Powell, CEO, Victorious Vets
TOPIC CATEGORY: Business
The goal of Victorious Vets is to help future vets confidently transition to the civilian world and thrive through personalized life and success planning. Victorious Vets provides one on one coaching, group coaching, ebooks, digital courses, and weekly podcast specifically tailored towards veterans. MORE >
Providing mindset work to overcome imposter syndrome, tangible resources and a safe space for similar people to support each other going through similar things. Victorious Vets is an important steppingstone for all veterans! -
Unleashing the Power of Breakthrough Skills
Bob Graham, Author, Speaker, Trainer, Coach, Breakthrough Solutions
TOPIC CATEGORY: Business
Technology cannot do it all in business. Successful entrepreneurs, leaders and managers need more. Bob Graham has developed three breakthrough skills, which when unleashed empower people and organizations to become more productive, collaborative and innovative. Using a combination of humor and insight, Graham has participants not just learning about breakthrough skills, but putting them to work – during the session. Participants leave inspired and prepared to act on what they learn. MORE >
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• How successful people blend technical skills with breakthrough skills to achieve that success
• The importance of attunement, experience management and storytelling to solve complex problems
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Transform Team Rapport
Shayanna Whitaker, CEO, The Institute for Dynamic Leaders
TOPIC CATEGORY: Business
There are no two individuals alike; therefore, two teams cannot be managed identically. As a result of this talk, individuals become aware and responsible for their behavior, executives and senior leaders support their staff and are better mentors, and organizations win with engaged personnel.
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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.