Two Keynotes,
One Message.
We are the answer we've been looking for.
“But… I don’t have a choice!”
That's the sound of being trapped by what you thought was success. While the trap has different symptoms–disillusionment, burnout, chronic health issues–the cause is always the same: choosing success instead of life.
After spending twenty years trapped in "I don't have a choice," I walked away from all of it: the career, the job, the house and all its stuff. I started travelling with my kids. And on that trip, I discovered something incredible: I could do so much more with so much less and, at the end of the day, I still had energy. So I started studying why.
Stack the Deck emerged from everything I learned in that process. It is a system that shows you no matter where you are in life, you can make choices today that enable you to turn the card's you're holding into a life that you love. Better yet, you don't even have to quit your job and sell everything you own to get there.
If your members are ready to stop doing more and start doing more of what matters, "Stack the Deck" is the right talk for them.
This talk is perfect for:
High-school & college students ready to step into the next chapter of their lives.
Mid-career professionals looking for what's next.
Aspiring entrepreneurs.
Stack the Deck:
Turn the Cards You're Holding into a Hand You Love.
Fredrich Schiller once said that, “art is the daughter of freedom.”
Before freedom was forced to behave, however, he was an also an artist and it is only through art that freedom will find his way back to himself.
The world is in crisis.
Authoritarian regimes are on the rise; historically marginalized communities face increasing challenges to their existence; and our democratic institutions are incapable of meeting the moment.
In times like these, the artist shows us what freedom looks like.
Crayons before Constitutions shows community leaders how our overdependence on democratic institutions has, in effect, weakened our ability to defend democracy. It explains how training in the arts—disciplines that demand discomfort, disagreement, and disruption—is required to help communities develop citizens with the moral courage democracy needs to flourish.
This talk challenges communities and their leaders to have the courage to confront the conditions that exist outside society's carefully curated spaces and to be brave enough to live their lives as artists: comforting the disturbed and disturbing the comfortable.
Book this talk if your organization is ready to support those with the courage to color outside the lines so that we might help freedom find his way back to himself.
This talk is perfect for organizations that want to:
Reignite donors and supporters with story-driven message that inspires giving.
Re-energize members, volunteers, and communities who have grown exhausted by being asked to do more with less.
Emerge from underneath layers of bureaucracy and move forward with purpose that fuels their passion.