“Life is a school, that’s really what it is. We learn best by going through stuff. I have lived through almost all of my worst fears and it’s been a tremendous blessing.”  ABOUT THIS SPEAKER Melody Ross, co-founder of Brave Living & Brave Girls Club, is an artist, pioneer, and visionary. Her stories of trauma […]

Melody Ross – What Does it Mean to Be Okay?

“I want you to be radical in the pursuit. RADICAL is your pursuit to tune in and know that your truth teller is your highest, wisest, most brilliant, original essence that you came here with. She knows.” ABOUT THIS SPEAKER Kelly Rae Roberts is a possibilitarian who believes that art heals. She is an accidental […]

Kelly Rae Roberts – Creating the Experiences Our Hearts Need Most

“One of the most amazing parts of being alive is being connected to people and my mom always role-modeled that for me. The reason we’re in community is because we get to celebrate the great moments with each other and we also get to lend a hand in the moments that are hard.” ABOUT THIS […]

Flora Bowley – Held & Healed: The Power of Community Through Grief & Loss

*Trigger Warning: this speaker shares frank (but not graphic in any way), personal experiences of abuse, which may be a trigger for some. “It’s the stories we tell ourselves that cause so much damage.” ABOUT THIS SPEAKER Timalee Nevels is known for great hugs, her fierce advocacy for children in foster care and lifting up women […]

Timalee Nevels – A Personal Journey to Body Love

“Returning to sacred means remembering our ability to honor and also our desire to come from an honoring place. Sacred is about honor. Honoring yourself and others.” ABOUT THIS SPEAKER Pixie Lighthorse teaches ancient healing skills to women, and leads retreats on her ranch in Central Oregon. Her purpose is to help women discover their […]

Pixie Lighthorse – Returning to Sacred

“I was in a marriage of 25 years, that most of the time was really unhappy. And I was unhappy. And [she] told me, ‘your Truthteller wants you to be happy’… Brave Girls Camp made me love myself enough to want to be happy—not to fake it, not to smile… everyone thought we were just happy, […]

Margie Romney-Aslett – 90/10: What’s Your Focus?

“Resilience. The technical term in the ability to overcome tough situations–and we ALL have that.” ABOUT THIS SPEAKER Liz Hicks is known for her love of color and sparkle. At the top of her world is her wonderful family. In her work, she tries hard to share stories that help people be good to themselves […]

Liz Hicks – Resilience & The Power of One

“Secrets are what have made me sick my entire life.” ABOUT THIS SPEAKER Liz Brown-Reeves is known for her authentic story, which includes her recovery from alcoholism and for being able to get a whole room roaring with laughter. She is driven by a desire to be of service to her fellow sisters and brothers […]

Liz Brown-Reeves – The Addiction & Recovery Edition

“What would you do if you suddenly woke up alone and homeless with no money, no friends, and no family? Think about that. I’m here to tell you that they are us… they are every age and background, and any other label you could throw on a person. I believe the health of a society […]

Lisa Palmer – Soul Housekeeping

“Mental illness is a complex subject and it gets compounded by the stigma associated with it. That’s why I know there are a lot of you out there suffering in silence.” ABOUT THIS SPEAKER Lavi Chimata is a seeker of goodness. She is known for her infectious laugh and knock-you-down funny impersonation of her wise […]

Lavi Chimata – Hope for Healing

“I can remember being about 10 years old maybe, and I was sitting next to my Grandmother, and her hands were on her lap. And she was fussing about her hands.  She was telling me that she had these spots on her hands and she was fussing about it.  I remember not knowing what to […]

Kathy Wilkins – What Are You Going to Do With the Rest of Your Life?

“So, without much of a fight at all… I believed them, and I dropped art–and I remember many times that I called my mom crying those first years of college, because it all felt wrong and I felt so lost.  But it never occurred to me or anyone else why. In the next years, I […]

Jeanne Oliver – Your Story: Go Deep, Not Wide

“Threat reactivity is the way we respond to new ideas that seem threatening. So there are many ways that we can respond  … and if you can remember these two things: you usually overestimate the threat and you usually underestimate your capabilities and what resources you have.” ABOUT THIS SPEAKER D’Laine Bennett has a presence […]

D’Laine Bennett – Love Can Use Your Mind to Change Your Brain (+ Race Discussion)

*Trigger Warning: this speaker shares frank (but not graphic in any way), personal experiences of abuse, which may be a trigger for some. “The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth—that is how this whole thing started, really. They kept telling me over and over, ‘secrets will make you sick’—until quite frankly, I hated […]

Caitlin Craig – The Story of My Unfolding

“I want you to think about the last time that you felt truly free, not distracted by things that other people need you to do, not feeling guilty or weighed down, not feeling life self-doubt was taking over and taking you away from your dreams, not feeling like you were obligated to other people in […]

Beth Kempton – How to Feel Free

“So, it was only in the face of my dad’s death that I began to understand what it means to live. It meant taking ownership of my life rather than following along at its mercy. It meant loving myself enough to grieve, even though it was so hard, and it meant opening to the love […]

Anna Oginsky – Embracing Grief as Love

“Love is a high vibration. Then you have lower vibrations, such as judgment, and fear, and criticism, and control, and punishment. And we’ve all experienced it from others, and we’ve all given it to others. And the most poisonous is to give it to ourselves… but your love, your pure essence of who you are, […]

Aimee Eoff – Love is a Vibration

“My talk is about a miracle. It’s about a triumph, and how family and friends in a community came together to create a miracle after something really tragic in our family. It’s a story about how to show up… when hard things happen, it’s easy to think that you don’t have anything to offer, or […]

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