Speaking Topics
My talks are grounded in lived experience—surviving a brain hemorrhage, rebuilding my life, navigating uncertainty, and learning through reflection and thousands of miles of walking to pay closer attention to the life in front of me.
I do not offer easy answers or a single formula for resilience. Instead, I share honest stories and practical ideas people can carry into their own lives—ways to examine the thoughts and stories shaping them, respond to change, move through uncertainty, and stay connected to what matters.
Each presentation can be tailored to businesses, community organizations, healthcare audiences, schools, and support groups. Whatever the setting, my goal is the same: to create a thoughtful and useful conversation about resilience, awareness, purpose, and living with greater 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.
Finding Peace Without Waiting for Life to Be Perfect
How contentment and ambition can coexist, even when problems and uncertainty remain.
Moving Forward Without Seeing the Whole Path
Learning to keep going through uncertainty, setbacks, and seasons when the outcome is not yet clear.
Progress Is Not Always a Straight Line
A practical and personal look at setbacks, switchbacks, timing, and what forward movement can really look like.
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.
Directional Thinking
How the thoughts we return to can shape the direction of our lives, without pretending we can control every thought or circumstance.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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