Author: Angela Wilcox
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Don’t Live Each Day As If It Were Your Last
Leanne Delle is an RN, speaker, podcast co-host and author of the Amazon Bestselling novel “Control Switch.” She completed her studies in creative writing at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where she is an alumna of their New York seminar. Originally from Canada, she became an American citizen in 2009 and is proud to write and stack her books permanently in The Big D.
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Don’t use the news to understand the world
Marieke van der Velden takes us along on an exciting journey past her projects, where she contrasts everyday life with the extremes you see on the news, giving you the opportunity to reshape your own ideas about this world. The purpose of these documentaries is to project a more nuanced image of the way we look at each other and the world around us. Her work is centered on places which receive a lot of news coverage, but focusing on different topics than the news covers, the everyday, the commonplace, the ordinary. In Iraq she portrayed people around the question ‘how are you doing?’ In Kabul she photographed Afghans at their favorite place of the city. The most recent project is called The Island of All Together. For this project Marieke traveled to the Greek island of Lesbos. Here she invited Syrian refugees and European tourists to get to know each other while sitting on a bench overlooking the sea.
Marieke van der Velden is a renowned photojournalist and documentary maker. NGOs like UNICEF have sent her on more than 40 journeys around the world to photograph their projects and campaigns. Together with her filmmaking husband Philip Brink, she also takes on one documentary project annually.
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How to Genuinely Connect in a Disconnected Workplace.
Drew is a widely sought after Executive, Leadership and Collaboration Coach. With his practice now in its 4th decade, he has also been an invited guest lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and School of Law, The Stern Business school at NYU and The Freeman School of Business at Tulane University.
Throughout the history of his work around the world, Drew is retained by dozens of organizations for his provocative mixture of candid insights and strategic optimism.
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The Dangers of Self Sabatoge
here’s a secret saboteur inside each of us, holding us back with insecurities as we reach for our goals. Health coach Beth Clayton shares her own moving story of self-sabotage and how she’s learned to keep it in check by building a better relationship with her saboteur.
Beth Clayton is a soul-centered health coach. She has helped hundreds of people to ditch the shame, dieting and deprivation and step into a respectful and loving relationship with their bodies and themselves.
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A Word About Happiness
Marathon runner and charity fundraiser Ben Smith reveals how he overcame the effects of bullying and found both happiness and his identity through extreme physical endeavour and by undertaking the 401 Challenge.
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Choice, happiness and spaghetti sauce
Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell gets inside the food industry’s pursuit of the perfect spaghetti sauce — and makes a larger argument about the nature of choice and happiness.
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How to travel the world with almost no money
Many people daydream about traveling the world, but all of them have the same excuse – lack of money. Tomislav, after traveling the world for years with almost no money, shows how it is possible for everyone to do the same, if they really want to.
Tomislav Perko, 29, is a travel writer from Croatia. After a career of a stockbroker, broke because of the financial crisis, he hits the road and turns it into his home. He uses alternative ways of traveling – hitchhiking, couchsurfing, working/volunteering, and manages to wander around the world with just a little bit of money in his pocket, meeting the most amazing people on the way.
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Why fitness is more important than weight
In her talk, Leanne will argue that striving for a perfect, skinny appearance is not the answer to obesity. Instead, the focus should be on functional fitness and incorporating exercise in our daily lives for all the benefits it brings, not just weight management.
Leanne Spencer is an entrepreneur, speaker and bestselling author. Born in Dorset, she spent 17 years working in the City of London before suffering burnout and leaving to establish her business and to follow her true purpose, which is to campaign for gender equality and the promotion of positive female role models for young people. Leanne now spends her time giving talks on the importance of positive female role models (“you can’t be it if you can’t see it”), and why we all need to change our attitudes towards food, fatness, fitness and most importantly, how we look.
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Accelerated Learning: How To Get Good at Anything in 20 Hours
Author Josh Kaufman (“The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything…Fast!”) talks about rapid skill acquisition–how you can learn how to do anything like surfing or speaking a new language in just 20 hours.
