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  • Seeing Into Strength

    Robert Kingett, Author

    TOPIC CATEGORY: Motivational

    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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    Robert Kingett, Author

    TOPIC CATEGORY: Entertainment

    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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  • You Are a Visionary: How to Create True Mental Health in the Workplace

    Sarah Fay, Ph.D., MA, MFA, Award-winning Author and Mental Health Advocate, Northwestern University

    TOPIC CATEGORY: Business

    In this engaging talk, Sarah shares her own experience of mental illness and mental health recovery and relates it to how workplaces can create true mental health: by 1) understanding what mental illness is and isn't, 2) empowering employees in mental health recovery, and 3) eliminating stigma. MORE >

    Stigma and self-stigma against mental health conditions have been shown to increase stress and therefore exacerbate mental health conditions producing a negative and costly looping effect. We know that stress, suffering, and trauma take a toll on workers, employers, companies, and organizations. 85% of workers report the workplace negatively affects their mental health and well-being. Long-term stress increases the risk of mental health issues and mental illness. When a worker isn’t feeling mentally and emotionally well, their safety and the safety of others are at risk. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), depression alone costs employers $17 billion to $44 billion and causes an estimated 200 million lost workdays each year.

    Topic covered:
    - Mental health in the workplace
    - Stress and how it affects mental health and psychiatric conditions
    - Mental illness and psychiatric diagnoses
    - Stigma and self-stigma
    - Being a visionary

    www.sarahfay.org

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  • Cured: Is Recovery from Mental Illness Possible?

    Sarah Fay, Ph.D., MA, MFA, Award-winning Author and Mental Health Advocate, Northwestern University

    TOPIC CATEGORY: Educational

    In this gripping talk, Sarah Fay shares her experience of a full recovery from serious mental illness. She was one of those “hopeless” cases: twenty-five years in the mental health system, six different diagnoses, nearly a dozen different medications, and unable to live independently. MORE >

    Her life changed with one word: Google. That’s right, Google. Her psychiatrist told her about a patient who’d fully recovered and gone on to become an executive at Google.

    Recovery? No one recovers from mental illness or any psychiatric diagnosis. Anorexia, bipolar disorder, OCD, ADHD, schizophrenia, etc.—those are forever.

    Turns out that’s not the case. To psychiatrists, mental health recovery is the moment when a person who’s experienced debilitating mental and emotional suffering is no longer disabled by it. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) defines recovery as “a process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness, live a self-directed life, and strive to reach their full potential.”

    For Sarah, recovery required a complete shift in her understanding of the world, her treatment, and herself. It was incredibly difficult and full of wrong turns and setbacks, but she did it.

    This talk explores the various definitions of recovery, the data on recovery, what mental health recovery looks like, and how we work toward it. It’s especially well-suited to high school, college, and university students—who are experiencing a mental health crisis and often given no hope— and women—who are the largest users of mental healthcare services in the country.

    Learning points: 

    -What mental health recovery looks and how it differs for each person

    -Why we think psychiatric diagnoses are lifelong and the data on mental health recovery

    -The difficulty in terminology—are we “cured,” recovered, well, better?

    -Personal versus clinical recovery

    -Concrete tools and resources for mental health recovery

    -Crafting mental health narratives

    -How to find support

    -How to guide others—particularly children and young people—in their journeys toward recovery

    -How to create work, education, and living environments that foster recovery

    www.sarahfay.org
    Find out more and watch Sarah's speaking reel here: https://sarahfay.org/speaking

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  • Spirituality and Meditation

    Agha Maisam, Client Partner

    TOPIC CATEGORY: Miscellaneous

    I was introduced to Spirituality and meditation in 2019 and it become my love very quickly. I started finding answers to key questions I had throughout my life but no one was able to answer them. Questions like, what is one's purpose in life? What is 'I' and 'Ego'. How can I really become a good human being? etc. MORE >

    I also understood that in order to really learn something, first step was to unlearn. Learning was easy, but unlearning was the real challenge. Spirituality and Meditation helped me unlearn so that I can truly learn the hidden yet always available lessons of life. I want to offer the same to people and help them a truly happy life.
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  • Mental Freedom

    Agha Maisam, Client Partner

    TOPIC CATEGORY: Miscellaneous

    My self-realiztion journey started during Covid. It started to overcome the biggest fear anyone would have, fear of death. On this journey I started from reading all the major holy scriptures like Bible (old and new testament), Quran, Bhagavad Gita, Dhammapada, Analects of Confucius and Tao Te Ching. MORE >

    After reading these books and learning about different believes I realized that in the end everything comes down to our choices. I also learned that the only difference between all believes are the practices that comes with it. People cling on to the practices and not the teachings.

    Whatever choice we make in life comes from or mind. So if one wants to master themselves, they need to master their mind. Mind is like an untamed horse and most of us drag behind it throughout our life. True power is when you learn how to sit on that horse and ride it for your benefit.

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  • Keys to High Performing Finance Teams

    Diane Davidson, Finance Transformation Leader, Clever Fox, LLC

    TOPIC CATEGORY: Business

    If I asked what your finance department does for your business, most would say: Taxes, Pay Bills, and Reports. These answers are all accurate, but this is only one aspect of a high-performing finance team. High-performing finance teams guide businesses in their decision-making. High-performing finance teams are viewed as thought leaders and analyze deal/strategies to make sure the company achieves their goals. In my 12 years of consulting, I have worked on transforming finance departments that are underperforming to high-performing teams that help jump start the company. I want to share how to identify underperformance and the path to a cohesive, high-performing team. MORE >

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  • Six Sigma and Finance Intersections

    Diane Davidson, Finance Transformation Leader, Clever Fox, LLC

    TOPIC CATEGORY: Business

    As a practitioner with a Six Sigma Green Belt, I am seeing demand for Six Sigma principles being used in the Finance industry. Six Sigma is typically viewed as a tool only used for Supply Chain, Logistics or Operations. Finance organizations are using Six Sigma principles such as Value Stream Mapping and Kaizen Events to bring standardization and efficiencies to their business processes. MORE >

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  • You don’t have to be beaten black or blue to be a victim of Domestic Violence

    Quanna Brown, Speak up Somebody Listening

    TOPIC CATEGORY: Motivational

    Many people that's in relationships right now don’t even know they are victims of Domestic Violence. I was in many relationship for years, being a victim of Domestic Violence and didn't even know it. I believe that they're over 90% of people that believe that you have to be physically abused, to be a victim of Domestic Violence. Domestic Violence come in many forms. I've been physically, mentally, emotionally, verbally, sexually and financially abused. My goal is to inform everyone; women, men, young, old, married and single about all the different types of Domestic Violence because you don’t have to be beaten black and blue to be a victim of Domestic Violence! MORE >

    My Story, My Truth.
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  • Trying to fit in almost killed me! Is it worth it?

    Quanna Brown, Speak up Somebody Listening

    TOPIC CATEGORY: Motivational

    Quanna's mission is to share her experience to bring awareness on "The Evils of Plastic Surgery" and hopefully educate someone about the Risk, the Complications, or and even DEATH that one may experience! MORE >

    They're many programs that's being advertise about reconstruction Plastic Surgery! However, we never see or hear about the people who get turned away, because they are too damaged and no Doctor would touch them!

    The only time we hear about "The Evils of Plastic Surgery" is when it’s too late, when someone didn't make out of surgery.

    I believe 90% of people who got or want to get Plastic Surgery is only because they know or seen someone who "body" looks prefect or/and getting all the attention.

    I spent years looking for the right doctor so I can look like everybody else. Monday June 15, 2015, I went in for a tummy tuck and liposuction procedures. The only thing that came from that procedure was being hospitalized for over 50 days, surgery after surgery, Trauma, Complications, Nerves Damage, Life long Scarring, Appearance Deformities and it even could’ve caused me death, just for a quick fix!

    I want to bring awareness about the Risk, for voluntary surgery!

    Is it worth it?

    I'm not totally against plastic surgery because Plastic surgery is necessary for some!

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