"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." ~John D. Rockefeller
SPEAKING
SPEAKING EVENTS
KEYNOTE SPEECHES
FEARLESS
“Madeline will always be our little good girl – she will never go do anything crazy.”
My grandmother’s voice hit me like a sledgehammer as I was tightening my parachute, dangling off the side of a 300-foot bridge in Idaho after having driven over two thousand miles away from home. In the moment before I tempted death, I realized this act of rebellion wasn’t to try to kill myself, but rather to kill off the identity that I had desperately been trying to run away from. Maybe I didn’t want to be the sweet girl in a wheelchair who always smiled pleasantly and played it safe; maybe there was another version of me that could do so much more. Then I let go of the ledge and began the fall... (and became the first paraplegic female to BASE jump in the US.)
Fear is a funny thing – we think we control our fears at a safe distance, yet our fears control almost every decision we make. The only way to achieve the version of yourself that fearlessly goes after life is by sacrificing the version of yourself that clings to the stability that fear has to offer. This requires you to re-write the identity you have created for yourself in very big and bold ways. In this keynote, I take the audience through the six steps needed to systematically address and confront your fears, along with a fear-chasing activity that will jumpstart their new perspective. Are you ready to break down what it takes to become a fear-chaser?
BOUNDLESS
“Madeline will always be our little good girl – she will never go do anything crazy.”
My grandmother’s voice hit me like a sledgehammer as I was tightening my parachute, dangling off the side of a 300-foot bridge in Idaho after having driven over two thousand miles away from home. In the moment before I tempted death, I realized this act of rebellion wasn’t to try to kill myself, but rather to kill off the identity that I had desperately been trying to run away from. Maybe I didn’t want to be the sweet girl in a wheelchair who always smiled pleasantly and played it safe; maybe there was another version of me that could do so much more. Then I let go of the ledge and began the fall... (and became the first paraplegic female to BASE jump in the US.)
Fear is a funny thing – we think we control our fears at a safe distance, yet our fears control almost every decision we make. The only way to achieve the version of yourself that fearlessly goes after life is by sacrificing the version of yourself that clings to the stability that fear has to offer. This requires you to re-write the identity you have created for yourself in very big and bold ways. In this keynote, I take the audience through the six steps needed to systematically address and confront your fears, along with a fear-chasing activity that will jumpstart their new perspective. Are you ready to break down what it takes to become a fear-chaser?
