Keynotes and Breakout Sessions

Whether addressing an intimate group of 30 or a conference of several thousand, Stephanie’s presentations are interactive and contributory.  She understands that audience participation is key to the learning process.  For this reason, she gets attendees “on their feet” right from the start.

Her customizable topics include:

Igniting Your Soul
Without passion it’s hard to really LOVE life.  Passions can moves us emotionally, get us excited about taking action, and ignite a fire in our souls that is inextinguishable. But they can also leave a void when we are not engaged with them.

Unfortunately, many people claim not to know what their passions truly are and they have spent so much time telling themselves they can do nothing about them they’ve lost touch with their heart’s desires

We are blessed with opportunities to choose what we do in life not only with our careers, but also with our time, our finances, our minds, and most importantly our attitudes.

You must make it a priority to rediscover your passions and allow them to breathe new life into your daily routine.

In this session you will:
1.    Identify the things about which you are truly passionate
2.    Develop a personal action plan outlining steps to incorporate these passions into your daily life
3.    Unleash your creativity and renewed excitement for LOVING life!
 

Flourishing During Life's Toughest Challenges

From time to time we all face challenges  and feel as though life has gotten the better of us.  But some of us have learned to weather life’s storms better than others and some have even learned how to flourish in the face of these storms.

Despite financial devastation, health crisis, and heart-breaking relationships the Choose a Better Life Chick has done just that.  As Stephanie puts it, she is living “an awesome life.

Join Stephanie as she shares her three-fold strategy for living well despite life’s toughest challenges.  In this session you will learn the benefits of:

1, Staying Connected
2. Staying Involved
3. Staying Motivated

Change Your View, Change Your Life
Feeling frustrated by the many obligations on your To Do list?  Finding that small trivial things cause you to get angry?  If so, you are not alone. Many women find themselves in similar situations.

The great news is that we can often control the levels of frustration and stress we experience.  We cannot always choose what happens to us, but we can always choose how we respond to what happens to us.

In this session you will learn how to:
1.    Reframe experiences turning the negative into a positive
2.    Increase your quality of life by decreasing frustrations and stress
3.    Increase your joy even during the difficult times
 

Foundations for Success
As women we are constantly on the go, serving other people and wearing many different hats.  Our lives and jobs are demanding ... just the way we like it.  But we often overlook the most crucial component of success: self-care.

This session debunks the myth that taking care of ourselves is selfish.  Quite the contrary.  If we don’t care for ourselves, we become resentful of our obligations and burn out, rendering us useless both personally and professionally.

Join Stephanie as she explores three components of self-care: physical, mental and spiritual and their direct link to success.

In this session you will learn tools to:
1. Reprogram hazardous mental tapes that limit your success,
2. Lay a foundation that positions you to create an extraordinary business and life,
3. Increase your energy and excitement for life greatly decreasing your chance of burn out, and
4. Become a joy machine that attracts others and edifies those with whom you come in contact.

Playing Seriously
Not only does laughter increase endorphins and burn calories, but it also provides a great release for stress and tension.  However, all too often we find ourselves in the rut of going to work, completing our tasks, and going home.  We don’t interact with others, we don’t take time to play and we definitely don't have fun.

This very interactive session gets attendees back in touch with the joys of playing.  Through different activities audience members will sample forms of play both as an entire group and in smaller table-groups.  The goal is not only to find forms of play that are appealing and fun, but also to get back in touch with that creative thinking we often suppress as adults.

In this session you will learn to:
1.    Spur out-of-the-box thinking that leads to creative solutions
2.    Reduce stress with easy-to-implement tools
3.    Look for the value in being open to new opportunities and experiences

From Fortune to Food Stamps to Freedom
By the time she was 27 years old, Stephanie Hester had established herself as an important executive in the outplacement industry.  By the age of 30 she and her husband had a very successful consulting practice with a joint venture worth millions of dollars in the works.

Before the joint venture could pay off, and due to circumstances beyond their control, Stephanie and her husband found themselves at a breaking point.  Because of challenging health issues, the joint venture going bad, the dotcom bubble burst, and other factors they found themselves out of work, out of money, and eventually out of their home.

During this session Stephanie shares lessons learned from going from fortune to food stamps to freedom and teaches you how to apply those lessons to everyday living.

What I Really Meant to Say …
Misunderstandings are common in the workplace, often causing unnecessary tension and conflict.  By understanding behavioral and communication styles, tension and conflict can be defused or even avoided all together.  

This overview session provides tools to increase endorsement and harmony by understanding and learning how to communicate with others’ styles, ensuring your message is heard.