Free Motivational Topics in Chicago
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The Fire Triangle: Fueling Your Future with Motivation, Goals, and Support
Margaret van Steenderen, Academic Success Coach, SLGM LLC
In "The Fire Triangle: Fueling Your Future with Motivation, Goals, and Support," you'll learn a simple yet powerful approach to achieving your personal and professional goals. The Fire Triangle consists of three essential elements: Heat (Motivation), Fuel (Clear Goals), and Oxygen (Supportive Environment). By using practical tools to discover your inner motivation, you'll be able to set clear, actionable goals that drive you forward. MORE >
Creating the right support network is key to maintaining momentum and achieving lasting success. This talk will show you how to build a positive environment with mentors, supportive peers, and helpful resources. You'll gain practical tips to stay focused and motivated, such as joining professional groups and creating a productive workspace. By understanding and applying the principles of the Fire Triangle, you’ll be well-equipped to achieve your goals and fuel your future. -
The Art of Not Being Defeated
Troy Sandidge, Keynote Speaker • Emcee • Fractional CMO • Podcaster • Author, Strategy Hackers
Life is difficult. Our lives are constantly "under construction" and so are our goals and dreams both personally and professionally. What happens when life throws you a curveball you didn't expect? What do you do when it feels like all is lost and you want to give up? This session tackles the reality and fear of defeat. MORE >
Focuses:
• How to Deal with Life-Altering Situations
• Strategies on How to Dig-Deep & Move Forward Despite Obstacles
• Q & A on Personal Techniques That Helped Me Personally & ProfessionallyBreakdown:
• How to Release What’s Holding Us Back to Pursue the Goals We Want
• Learn & Apply the C.L.O.V.E.R. Business Framework™ to Achieve Your Goals
• Build T.R.U.S.T. within Our Internal Teams & Departments, & Discover as a Whole
• Renewing Our Commitments Professionally & Personally
• Tips to Improve Productivity, Teamwork, & Culture within Micro-Teams & OrganizationIntentional Themes & Emotion Expected to Be Experienced:
• Self-Reflection
• Inspiration
• Transition
• Affirmations
• Objectively Thinking
• Revitalization
• Embracing Change
• Taking Action Toward GoalsActionable Takeaways:
• Get System To Level-Up Your Mindset to Maintain Momentum to Achieve
• Apply Strategies to Obtain Clarity & Directions to Stay in Alignment with Your Goals
• Refocus. Realignment. Revitalization. Moving From Passion to Action** Session can be customized to be more Faith-based or Motivational-Based
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Success Is an Inside Job
Scott Hansen, CEO, Scott Hansen Consulting
When it comes to increasing business, 20% is skill set, while 80% is mindset. After this presentation, you will walk away with a ton of new confidence and a new way of thinking about you, and your business.
Scott covers topics such as: MORE >
- The most important thing you can do before 8am
- The "iceberg" effect on Entrepreneurs
- Are you a Negative Nancy or Positive Pauly
- Stop comparing yourself with othersIf your company needs some motivation, inspiration, and mindset training, this is the perfect presentation for you.
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Step Into Your Power: Moving Beyond the Barriers Within
Eva M. Kennedy, CPCC, Transformational Life Coach, Author, Eva M Kennedy Coaching
Description:
Sometimes the greatest obstacles we face aren’t external — they’re the quiet, hidden barriers within. In this empowering and actionable talk, Eva M. Kennedy helps participants recognize and move beyond the internal struggles that keep them stuck: fear, self-doubt, limiting beliefs, imposter syndrome, and more. MORE >These barriers often show up in our day-to-day lives — from not speaking up in meetings to putting our own dreams on hold. Whether in our relationships, careers, or leadership roles, the patterns of playing small can be hard to see and even harder to break.Through personal insight and powerful reflection, Eva invites attendees to explore what’s been holding them back — and begin moving forward, one intentional step at a time.
Audience Takeaways:
Identify the deeper internal obstacles that limit confidence and progress
Understand how fear, worthiness, and resistance show up in personal and professional life
Learn how small, values-aligned actions build clarity, courage, and personal power
Reconnect with your authentic voice and begin leading from within
This talk is ideal for individuals and groups navigating change, seeking clarity, or ready to rise above the mental blocks holding them back.
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Seeing Into Strength
Robert Kingett, Author
Robert Kingett is no longer accepting speaking requests through Free Speakers so visit Robert's website for the most up to date speaker topics and pages at https://blindjournalist.wordpress.com/live/
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My Plastic Surgery Experience, A TALE OF TRAUMA UNFOLD!
Quanna Brown, Speak up Somebody Listening
Join me for an insightful session of storytime and Q&A, where I will bravely share my personal journey through a traumatic plastic surgery experience. This event promises to be both enlightening and engaging, offering a unique opportunity to learn from my story and engage in thoughtful dialogue. Your presence would be greatly appreciated as we explore the complexities and lessons that arise from such experiences. MORE >
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Levels & Stages of Success
Robb Hill, Founder/President, R Hill Enterprises Inc
Life is lived on levels and arrived at in stages, at every new level you come to there is a stage that you must go through or you will remain where you are currently. The different levels in life are easy to see however, comfort and fear keep us from venturing out of our comfort zone. For me that comfort zone was drugs and alcohol. For 18 years that was my focus. Along with this line of thinking came consequences. You see, "we pay the highest price for the lowest level of living,". My eyes were opened March 1, 1993. I realized that I was so much more than what I had become. I quit using drugs and alcohol which left a void in my life. There was a "missing piece" that I had to find. The rest of the story will be continued at the meeting/event. MORE >
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Keeping the main thing, the main thing
R. Brady Johnson, UUSAF Veteran, Natural Bodybuilding Competitor, Stroke Survivor, Author
Growing up as a youth, my mother was a college educator, and my father was the President of the 2nd largest School Board in Illinois.I played football and Baseball, and sung for The Pepsi Generation Singer. I began to struggle with my grades, and my mother said that I needed to "keep the main thing, the main thing". She suggested that I use, what she said as the three F's, and yes,I thought of one. The three F's, Focus, Fun, and Friends,and I have used them through life. I am a successful, retired member of the USAF, I have been a sports agent, working with 22 NFL players, a motivational speaker, and now I am a Natural Bodybuilding. I have held on to "Keeping the main thing the main thing", and the three F's!!! MORE >
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Get your “BUT” out of the way!
Robb Hill, Founder/President, R Hill Enterprises Inc
We all have those awesome thoughts dripping with possibility, we get a smile on our face and consider how nice it would be then, out of nowhere comes "BUT". The whole show stops when the "BUT" gets in the way. The thinking then turns to all the reasons why we "CAN'T" realize the vision that we were given. We must not let what we can't do get in the way of what we can do. For me this has made all the difference. There was a time in my life when it seemed that failure was following me around however, that was not the case, you see; I was following failure around. I was being mis-informed by mis-informed people. This realization has made all the difference in my life. MORE >
AssociationI spent a lot of time in bad company;
I thought it was with friends, but they were robbing me;
By choice so many times I let them, steal my day;
I was robbing them too, in exactly the same way;
As I’ve grown older with the passage of time;
And the ladder of success, I started to climb;
And oh how I wanted my friends to go;
In the midst of their comfort, to life they said no;
I started reading books, I found myself inside the zone;
Anything worthwhile is never accomplished alone;
This statement spoke volumes and resonated in my head;
For in order to lead, you must first be led;
With the law of association at the forefront of my mind,
My past associations, I had to leave them all behind;
To seek out those that shared my desire;
For achievement in life that was several levels higher;
For life is lived on levels and arrived at in stages;
A simple fact that I learned, cause I kept turning pages;
As I write these words, to the past that I look;
My very first mentor was in the form of a book;
His name is David Schwartz and doctor is his gig;
He spoke to me through the pages of, The Magic of Thinking Big.
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Courage Is The Master of Fear
Cherise N Ragland, Producer, Actress, Public Speaker, Author
Cherise Nicole speaks from a Chapter in her book "You Can Soar" on Courage Being The Master of Fear. Sometimes life's blows damage people's confidence and leave them with a broken or bruised wing? How can one soar when they've been broken on the inside? Cherise will motivate people to move out of their comfort zone and extinguish the excuses and lies that cripple people from moving forward in life. She motivates listeners to action! MORE >