Surviving and Thriving During Uncertainty, Stressful Times and Beyond

Speaker Josh Dye

Stress. Anxiety. Frustration. Fear. Uncertainty. Have you felt any of these emotions lately?

If so, you are not alone. 

The COVID-19 pandemic and recent social unrest are taking a toll on our emotional, physical, social, and financial health. 

Self care is hard for many of us during ‘normal’ times. How are we supposed to manage all of this? 

There are three common problems with a lot of self care advice:

1. It is too basic (yeah…I already know I’m supposed to exercise, eat right and go to bed early!).

2. It creates extra work during an already stressful time. (“Do this new thing, this new thing, AND this new thing and you’ll turn your life around!”).

3. It’s unrealistic (No, most of us can’t actually do it all, especially during times like this. Some balls will drop!).

Let’s explore a better way to do self care. 

In this webinar you will learn (Learning objectives):

  • Triggers – How to identify what is bothering you, so you can resolve it.
  • Anti-Goals – How to identify what you don’t want to do, so you can do what you want.
  • Subtraction – What to eliminate to make your life better.
  • Dropping the ball – What commitments to drop and what to preserve when time gets tight.

You will also learn practical tips on how to manage difficult emotions, achieve mental strength, and maintain physical and financial health during difficult times.

The Power of Slow: The Counterintuitive Secret to Thriving in a Fast World

SLOW does not mean doing everything at a snail’s pace. That would be absurd. It means doing everything at the right speed: quickly, slowly or whatever pace works best.

Slow means being present, living each moment fully, and putting quality before quantity in everything from work to food to parenting.

In this webinar you will learn: (Learning Objectives)

  • How slowing down actually helps us achieve more.
  • The main reasons we feel like we are in such a rush.
  • How to maximize each moment at work and home.
  • Tips to improve thinking and decision making.

This webinar will help you work and live with greater intention and enjoyment.

About the Speaker: Carl Honore

Carl Honoré is a bestselling author, broadcaster and the voice of the Slow Movement. His two main-stage TED Talks have racked up millions of views.

Carl travels the world to deliver powerful keynotes that put time and tempo in a whole new light. His counter-intuitive message is simple but game-changing: To thrive in a fast world, you have to slow down.

Carl’s first book, In Praise of Slow, chronicles the global trend toward putting on the brakes in everything from work to food to parenting.

Carl featured in a series for BBC Radio 4 called The Slow Coach in which he helped frazzled, over-scheduled people slow down. He presented a television show called Frantic Family Rescue on Australia’s ABC 1. 

He also spent three years on the Board of Trustees of Hewitt School in New York City. In 2024, he was named an Advocate for Aging by the American Society for Aging and Next Avenue.

Carl is a father of two and lives in London.

While researching his first book on slowness, he was slapped with a speeding ticket.

The Mountain is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage to Self-Mastery

This webinar is about self sabotage. Why we do it, when we do it, and how to stop doing it…for good.

Coexisting but conflicting needs create self-sabotaging behaviors. This is why we resist efforts to change, often until they feel completely futile.

In this webinar you will learn how to:

  • Extract crucial insights from your most damaging habits.
  • Build emotional intelligence by understanding your brain and body.
  • Release past experiences.
  • Step out of your own way, and into your potential.

For centuries, the mountain has been used as a metaphor for the big challenges we face, especially ones that seem impossible to overcome.

To scale our mountains, we actually have to do the deep internal work of excavating trauma, building resilience, and adjusting how we show up for the climb.

In the end, it is not the mountain we master, but ourselves.

Learn how in this webinar!

About the Speaker: Brianna Wiest

Brianna is the bestselling author of the books 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think, The Mountain Is You, The Pivot Year, and more. Her books have sold over 1 million copies, regularly appear on global bestseller lists, are currently being translated into 40+ languages.

After working as a journalist as a post-graduate, writing for publications such as Forbes and Teen Vogue, Brianna began sharing her creative writing and personal reflections gained from years of self-inquiry and meditation practice. Over time, her work was shared around the world, and has since touched millions with messages of empowerment, self-reflection, and hope.

Today, Brianna is a partner at Thought Catalog, where she first published her books and began sharing her personal writing. She lives and works in Los Angeles, and travels to speak at businesses, conferences and bookstores worldwide.

Real Help: An Honest Guide to Self Improvement

Speaker Ayodeji-Awosika

Do you feel deep down that if you could just get some momentum that you could create the life you want?

Does it annoy you that you can see the path to success right in front of you, but can’t bring yourself to do it?

If you are the type of person who simply needs clarity, direction, and accountability to push you forward, this webinar is for you.

In this webinar, you will learn:

  • How to identify the key sticking points and blind spots that keep you stuck in loops of procrastination.
  • How to develop the mental toughness you need to thrive in an unfair world.
  • How to stop being a ‘self-help junkie’ who never gets anything done and start executing your ideas.

Get ready to learn concrete steps, tools, strategies, and mindsets that will help you make real change!

About the Speaker: Ayodeji Awosika

Ayodeji Awosika is the author of two books: The Destiny Formula – Find Your Purpose.​ Overcome Your Fear Over Failure​. Use Your Natural Talents and Strengths to Build a Successful Life and ​You 2.0 – Stop Feeling Stuck, Reinvent Yourself, and Become A Brand New You.

His work has been read by hundreds of thousands of people and been featured on top publications like Business Insider, The Huffington Post, and Thrive Global, and he has spoken in front of thousands of people.

In the span of a few years, he discovered a passion for writing, built a side business around his passion, tripled his income, and created a brand new life for himself instead of feeling stuck and lost.

And now he wants to show you both sides of his life to show you can make positive changes too!

Working through Crisis: Strategies to Support Yourself and Clients

Speaker Josh Dye

Working through Crisis: Strategies to Support Yourself and Clients

Right now many people are working through a crisis. The ongoing pandemic and recent staff and service shortages are creating incredible challenges for clients and the professionals that help meet their basic needs.

To survive this moment we need more than basic coping mechanisms. We need resilient strategies that help us physically and emotionally endure whatever we are facing. We also need tips to engage with clients when things get tough that are beyond our control. 

In this training we will explore: (Learning Objectives)

  • How to establish healthy personal and professional boundaries.
  • How to become more emotionally resilient.
  • How to effectively communicate with clients when challenges arise.
  • What to do when it seems like there are no good options.

Regret Reclaimed: How to Improve Decisions and Performance by Learning From Negative Moments

Speaker Josh Dye

People often say I have no regrets, or live with no regrets. 

But let’s face it, regrets are inevitable. 

We have all done things that we wish we had handled differently.

According to author Daniel Pink, there are 4 categories of regrets:

  1. Foundation Regrets: “If only I’d done the work or put in the effort.”
  2. Boldness Regrets: “If only I’d taken that risk.”
  3. Moral Regrets: “If only I’d done the right thing.”
  4. Connection Regrets: “If only “I’d reached out.”

Handled properly, regrets help us learn.

In this training we will dig into the 4 categories of regrets and learn how we can use them to do the following (Learning Objectives):

  • How to use regret to improve personal and professional decisions.
  • How to use regret to boost performance.
  • How to use regret to deepen meaning. 

Managing Stress for Positive Change

In the workplace, stress is often viewed in purely negative terms.

It’s seen as a response that should simply be minimized or pushed aside. However, it’s possible to use stress to fuel positive change.

In this webinar you will learn (Learning Objectives):

  • What exactly stress is.
  • How you can train yourself to use stress in more effective ways.
  • Reactions vs. responses.
  • Things we can do to reduce employee stress when an organization experiences difficult times.

About the Presenter: Dr. Heidi Hanna

As an experienced speaker, Dr. Heidi Hanna has been featured at many national and global conferences, including the Fortune Magazine Most Powerful Women in Business Summit, ESPN Women’s Leadership Summit, and the Million Dollar Round Table.

Dr. Hanna is the Chief Energy Officer of Synergy Brain Fitness, a company providing brain-based health and performance programs to individuals and organizations, a Founding Partner of the Academy for Brain Health and Performance, and a Fellow and Advisory Board Member for the American Institute of Stress.

She is a NY Times bestselling author of several books, including The Sharp Solution, Stressaholic, and Recharge.

Her clients have included Google, Starbucks, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, and WD40 as well as the PGA Tour and the National Football League. Dr. Hanna serves as an Everyday HealthExpert Wellness Advisory Board member, and a National Board Member and Certified Humor Professional with the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor, although she won’t admit she’s funny.

The Power of the Downstate: Recharge Your Life Using Your Body’s Own Restorative Systems

If you’re like most people, the relentless daily grind of go-go-go, do-do-do, can run down your energy and deplete your resources.

While most of us find our lives full of “Upstate” moments that rev up our stress engines, it doesn’t have to be this way.

In the webinar world-renowned sleep researcher Sara C. Mednick, PhD, will show us how we can access the most replenishing and repairing aspects of sleep through activities and moments that happen during our day by diving into our “Downstate.”

Dr. Mednick shows that bringing ourselves back to the Downstate is critical for our health, well-being, and cognitive longevity.

You will learn (Learning Objectives):

  • How our bodies and minds are guided by a natural Upstate/Downstate rhythm—and how our modern lifestyles disrupt these rhythms to our detriment.
  • How our vital organs and systems benefit from spending more time in the Downstate –  which decreases the risk for Alzheimer’s disease, chronic illness, and early death.
  • How we can activate the Downstate through rethinking how to breathe, eat, sleep and exercise.

About the Speaker: Dr. Sara Mednick

Professor Sara C. Mednick is a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of California, Irvine and author of The Hidden Power of the Downstate (Hachette Go!, pub date: April, 2022) and Take a Nap! Change Your Life. (Workman).

Dr. Mednick’s seven-bedroom sleep lab works literally around-the-clock to discover methods for boosting cognition by napping, stimulating the brain with electricity, sound and light, and pharmacology. Her lab also investigates how the menstrual cycle and aging affect the brain. Her science has been continuously federally funded (National Institute of Health, National Science Foundation, Department of Defense Office of Naval Research, DARPA).

She received a PhD in Psychology from Harvard University, and then completed a postdoc at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and UC San Diego.

How to be Physically, Emotionally, Mentally Strong

Strength is built by pushing back against whatever life throws at you. Strength is built by doing what’s hard and leaving your comfort zone.

Over time, everything gets messier and more disorganized. Even if you do nothing, everything still deteriorates and degrades. Without order, optimal function is impossible.

The consequence of suboptimal functioning is mediocre living.

Strong people resist the effects of entropy.

Strength is what allows you to build, rejuvenate, and organize your energies.  Strength can take your life from subpar to outstanding.

  • Physical strength fights against nature. It builds and preserves physical health.
  • Emotional strength resists hysterics. It nurtures and develops emotional well-being.
  • Mental strength erodes irrationality. It fortifies and protects mental health.

In this webinar you will learn (Learning Objectives):

  • How to build physical strength.
  • How to build emotional strength.
  • How to build mental strength.

About the speaker: Ed Latimore

Ed Latimore is a best-selling author, former professional heavyweight boxer, and competitive chess player. His writing focuses on self-improvement and a practical approach to stoic philosophy.

Over 30,000 men and women subscribe to his newsletter, Stoic Street Smarts, for tips about self growth

The Innovations that are About to Change Your Life

From in-body organ regeneration and 200-year lifespans, to moveable cities and climate modification, many scientific advances that feel far off — even fictional — are likely right around the corner.

Understanding the paradigm-shifting nature of what is to come is essential for ensuring transitions that preserve human life and dignity.

In this webinar you will learn (Learning objectives):

  • The most likely paradigm-shifting innovations that are within most human lifetimes.
  • The ways in which each of these shifts will impact human culture, governance and economies, and more.

About the Speaker: Matthew LaPlante

Matthew LaPlante is the co-writer of Lifespan: Why We Age, and Why We Don’t Have To, a New York Times best seller. He is also the founder and host of a radio program on Utah Public Radio called UnDISCIPLINED, and is the co-host of the Lifespan podcast. Matthew also serves as associate professor of journalistic writing at Utah State University.