Misc Personal Speaking

Speakers Selected Topics:
• Save the Children: Drowning Prevention Education
• You Can Make It, No Matter How You Are Different
• When People Use Their Own Voices, Their Impact Endures Over Time
• Ignoring Homelessness and Human Needs of Your Clients Is Not Accidental: It Requires Intentional Effort
• Never Settle
• What Does It Mean to Swim Upstream?

Many things stick out in my journey from hometown hero to homeless, world-class gold medalist despite having a limiting disability. My road to greatness started when I was nine years old. As a “Differently Abled” person, I found myself being left out of events, overlooked, and under picked. To say it caused inner trauma would be putting it mild. I learned to cope by escaping into swimming, which can be a team sport or an individual one. I found myself at the YMCA in Waxahachie almost daily. Once I discovered the water, I was naturally drawn to it. Once the staff at the Y saw I loved to swim, they encouraged, empowered, and enabled me to train and blossom into that youth capable enough to capture a spot on the Special Olympics team. There are varying levels of competitiveness involved, and one of the underlying reasons for their existence is to assist athletes that are disadvantaged for any number of reasons. My blindness afforded me the opportunity of competing as a swimmer for the organization.
I’ve had the privilege of competing in the World Games, Dubai and in Seattle, at a National US Games. It is a unique honor and I am truly blessed to have accomplished that feat, which is especially amazing since I am a legally blind African-American female. I just published a book called Swimming UPSTREAM. I host my Keep Swimming With Ashton podcast and join as a guest on many other shows and podcasts. I’m currently seeking opportunities as a public speaker.

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Jeff Weaver Speaks On:

• Avoiding the 7 Most Costly Mistakes Networkers Make – In this Talk, Jeff pulls back the curtain on some common missteps businesspeople make that limit their results when they are networking.
• The Reticular Activator: Activating Referrals – Giving and Receiving referrals should be on purpose, not an accident. Funny Ah-Ha moments and practical easy-to-use strategies will generate referrals TODAY.
• Business the Caveman Way to Modern Day – Everyone has heard the word ‘barter.’ Get some of ‘The Good Life’ back utilizing barter as a tool in business and personal settings.
• Networking Nuggets: Common Sense is Not So Common – Jeff teaches critical basics of networking relationship building. He delves into 4 very specific, common-sense applications and mind-sets.

Jeff’s professional career has been based on a foundation of creating and developing mutually beneficial professional and personal relationships. He speaks, trains, and mentors professionals in the same. He has a successful track record in sales and management in: technology, retail, advertising, real estate, and now, modern barter exchange.

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Selected Topic Titles:

• Break Through The Turbulence of Grief – Grief can come from a variety of situations, from the loss of a job to the loss of a loved one. No matter what the grief arises from it can leave us feeling a multitude of emotions and often stuck in our tracks without knowing how we will move forward. In this talk Kristen will give us tools to use during tough times to keep us flying forward.

As a professional Psychic/Medium, Kristen knows the experience of grief intimately as well as the impact it can have on one’s life.  Having lost her father at 18 years old, she began to question and dive deeper into life AFTER death, ultimately leading her to realize she is a psychic medium and can communicate with spirits on the other side.

Kristen left her corporate career as an attorney to pursue helping others to move through their grief using her powerful and accurate mediumship.  Now she holds group readings at corporations, works with families of high-profile individuals who have passed and helps private clients move through any form of grief they may be experiencing, from the loss of a job to the loss of a loved one.

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Selected Speaker’s Topics:

• From Captivity to Freedom: Embracing Resilience and the Power of Hope, Love, and Faith
• Discovering Inner Strength: Unleashing the Power Within You

Jose Pereira was wrongfully detained and held captive in Venezuela for nearly five years, from November 21, 2017, to October 1, 2022. Pereira was one member of the so-called CITGO6. His only crime was that he is an American. Before he was taken hostage, Pereira spent thirty-five years as an oil company executive and CEO of Citgo Petroleum (a US-based refineries complex and broad gas station distribution center.)

Pereira obtained a degree in Business Administration from the Universidad de Oriente (UDO) in Venezuela in 1985. He joined Corpoven, S.A. (now Petróleos de Venezuela-PDVSA (a Venezuelan State-owned company), the fifth-largest oil company in the world at the time. In 1989, he completed his Master of Business Administration at Florida International University through a joint program with Universidad De Oriente (UDO.) In 2012, he received a Diploma in International Taxation from Santiago de Compostela University in Spain.

Throughout his career, Pereira held several managerial positions in various PDVSA subsidiaries worldwide. He was assigned to numerous Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) JVs with Ente Nationale Idrocarburi (ENI), including ENI—Italy, Inpex—Japan, China National Petroleum Company (CNPC)—China, Statoil—Norway, Total—France, and Chevron, Conoco, and Exxon—US. He was the CFO of CVP (a PDVSA affiliate of the international JVs) and rose to become the CEO of Citgo Petroleum, replacing Nelson Martinez, who later became the Ministry of Petroleum and the President of PDVSA.

Pereira was part of the great oil and petrochemical projects in Venezuela in the 80s, launching PDVSA to become one of the top five companies in the international oil business. He actively participated in several managerial positions, including the “Apertura Petrolera” (privatization of the oil fields in Venezuela) in the 90s—the most extensive privatization of state-owned companies at that time. Pereira was integral in directing the internationalization of PDVSA in the late 90s and early 2000s and the re-nationalization of PDVSA in 2006-2007. He was also part of the PDVSA team that created Corporación Venezolana de Petróleos (CVP.) This affiliate managed more than forty JVs with international oil companies in Venezuela. His strategic leadership promoted him to the US-based CFO and CEO positions of Citgo Petroleum, which he held until his retirement.

While at the top of his career as Citgo’s CEO (the sixth biggest refinery complex in the US), Pereira was called to attend a business meeting in Caracas at Petroleum of Venezuela (PDVSA)—(the parent company of Citgo)—headquarters. On that day, the Venezuelan regime accused him of corruption, espionage, and treason, among other false charges, and captured and imprisoned him. This nightmare lasted 1,775 days—four years and eight long months.

After the United States Government orchestrated his release, Pereira turned his focus to advocating and supporting hostage families enduring similar nightmares and broken processes. His experience made it clear that what he survived can help others that are struggling to be able to overcome, thrive, and succeed in any circumstance. He now speaks to spread a message of resilience, hope, faith, and survival. Pereira is proof that we can conquer anything. He works to combine his career and life experiences with his strategic planning and relentless mindset approach to coach others through seeming insurmountable situations. He calls this program: LIFE PILLS FOR A SURVIVAL GUIDE (LPSG.)

 

 

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Speaker’s Selected Topics:

• How to create unlimited possibilities by being more present in your life
• Being of service is not about self-sacrifice
• Anxiety/Depression – basics and basic coping skills
• You don’t have to choose either/or, science and spirit are a wonderful match

Lesley is an International Speaker and International Best-Selling Author of “DeFUNK YourSELF”.  She worked as a traditional therapist before she sought training in complimentary therapies and discovered she was highly intuitive. She has developed a perfect blend of modern and magical therapies to empower women to give themselves permission to be limitless and unlock endless possibilities.

Lesley has thirty years of experience as a Registered Psychiatric Nurse Therapist. She is a Clinical Hypnotherapist, Certified Soul Care Practitioner and Reiki Master. She brings new purpose and passion for raising awareness, gaining new perspectives and teaching others to Shine Their Light and believes, like The Rising Phoenix, that everyone can rise from the ashes of their old life and build themselves stronger to shine their light into the world.

Her mission is to empower Women to give themselves permission to be limitless. By building awareness and presence, women find their sense of passion, intuition, and unlock endless possibilities to manifest the life they truly desire.

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Selected Speaker Topics:

• How to Laugh to Keep From Crying: How to Parent Your Parents – “About 10 years ago my live-in Father-in-law developed dementia, at the same time my Mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and unknown to me at that time my Father was in the early stages of Parkinson’s. I speak to caregivers and teach them, among other things, how to journal to deal with stress, etc. I share anecdotes and advice to help others who are Parenting their Parents, build and reinforce happy memories by remembering to find humor during an otherwise arduous and often overwhelming end of life journey.”
• Gardening Texas Style – As a Master Texas Gardener, Charlotte customizes this talk to each audience to educate and entertain about the variety of opportunities for gardening in the Lone Star State.

Charlotte Canion has been published in many magazines and several of her works are part of the Who Who’s in the Library of Congress in Washington DC.  “You Have To LAUGH To Keep From Crying/ How To Parent Your Parents” book is not only an Amazon Best Seller, but was awarded the BEST SELF-HELP in the State of Texas, which led to her interview on “Good Morning Texas”.  Canion was just awarded, Empowered Woman of the Year by IAOTP.  She has written several short stories that are part of “Short Stories by Texas Authors” and “Angels on Earth” magazine. Canion is a Host on Indie Beacon Radio, where she interviews fellow authors.  Power Magazine wrote a full-page article on Canion and she was on the cover of the “SPEAKERS and Continuing Education” magazine.  Advancing her knowledge, she has completed the National Senior Caregivers Certification and NSA’s Professional Speakers Academy.   Reading, learning and always listening to the other experts are tools that keep Canion one of the most sought-after speakers.  She has just completed a children’s book intitled “Charlie is Looking for a Mate” and  “SPARKS  Ignite Your Way To Success” is her latest collaborative book that is also an Amazon Best Seller. Her mother always told her to “Treat others the way you want to be treated” and that is how Canion lives her life.

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