Speaking Topics
My talks are grounded in lived experience and shaped by what I’ve learned through recovery, uncertainty, reflection, and paying closer attention to the life in front of me.
Rather than offering one-size-fits-all advice, I share practical ideas people can apply to their own lives—how we think, respond to change, move through uncertainty, and stay connected to what matters along the way.
Each talk can be adapted for businesses, community organizations, healthcare audiences, schools, support groups, and others seeking thoughtful conversations about resilience, awareness, purpose, and living with intention.
Awareness, Presence, and Everyday Life
How intentional attention can change the way we experience ordinary moments and help us recognize the meaning and possibility already around us.
Moving Forward Without Seeing the Whole Path
Learning to keep going through uncertainty, setbacks, and seasons when the outcome is not yet clear.
The Power of Attention in a Distracted World
What we miss when our minds are always somewhere else, and how to reclaim more of the life happening around us.
Additional Topics and Conversations
Living with an Acquired Brain Injury
A firsthand perspective on rebuilding a life after a brain hemorrhage, adapting to cognitive changes, and learning to respect limitations that others cannot always see.
Epilepsy and the Reality of an Invisible Condition
What it means to live with seizures and neurological uncertainty while continuing to work, raise a family, and build a meaningful life.
Resilience Without the Hero Story
An honest conversation about resilience as a gradual, imperfect practice, not something that requires us to be fearless, endlessly positive, or unaffected by what we have endured.
I speak from lived experience about acquired brain injury, epilepsy, men’s mental health, walking as a cognitive reset, memoir writing, resilience, and the possibilities of reinvention in midlife.
Speaking & Media Inquiries
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Finding Peace Without Waiting for Life to Be Perfect
How contentment and ambition can coexist, even when problems and uncertainty remain.
Progress Is Not Always a Straight Line
A practical and personal look at setbacks, switchbacks, timing, and what forward movement can really look like.
Directional Thinking
How the thoughts we return to can shape the direction of our lives, without pretending we can control every thought or circumstance.
Men, Mental Health, and the Stories We Keep Inside
Exploring why many men struggle to express vulnerability, ask for support, or acknowledge emotional and cognitive difficulties, and what can change when we begin speaking honestly.
Reinventing Life in Midlife
Finding a new direction when health, work, family roles, or long-held expectations begin to change, and recognizing that reinvention does not mean abandoning who we have been.
Writing as a Way of Understanding Your Life
How reflection and personal storytelling can help us recognize patterns, reconsider the stories we have carried, and understand our experiences differently.