Keynotes, Retreats and Workshops

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Whether your audience is navigating grief, exhaustion, or the paralysis that comes when life asks more than they think they can give, Lisa comes alongside with a message forged in real life: you don’t have to see the whole path. You just have to take the next small step.

Lisa offers keynote addresses, half-day workshops, and retreats tailored to your group and event.

Signature Topics

✔️ The Sacredness of Small Steps: Finding Your Way When the Path Goes Dark

When the lights go out and forward feels impossible, this talk serves as a flashlight illuminating the path just ahead. Audiences leave with a practical philosophy for navigating dark seasons and a glimmer of hope that empowers the next small step.

✔️ First, Brush Your Teeth: Grief and Hope in Real Time

Based on her memoir of the same name, Lisa takes audiences inside the first year after losing her youngest son — not as a tidy “this-is-how-you-do-it” story, but as an honest, sometimes gritty, account of what hope actually looks like when it shows up in the ordinary. Raw, real, and unexpectedly funny, this talk lands where grief lives — in the messiness of heartache, hope, and finding the next step forward.

✔️ Still Here: Resilience for the Rest of Us

Not every hard season comes with a name. Sometimes it’s just the accumulation of unexpected change, exhaustion, and uncertainty that drains the last drop of fuel from the tank. Drawing on the science of resilience, this talk explores what actually builds resilience in real people, leaving audiences empowered by the discovery that resilience isn’t available for the lucky few who were born with it. It’s a practice. And it’s within reach.

✔️ On Wiping Noses: A Pep Talk for Tuckered Out Moms

This talk is for every mom who has ever hit the wall in exhaustion, wondered if she matters, or felt the weight of “not good enough.” It’s a reminder that beneath the ordinariness of wiping noses and bottoms is profound meaning. Warm, funny, and deeply honest, this talk meets moms exactly where they are and sends them home knowing that who they are and what they do — all of it — matters.