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If you're in need of a speaker for your business or organization 's next meeting, conference, or expo, please consider me. I provide both educational/motivational presentations and experiential workshops on a variety of topics. Whether leading a workshop or delivering a presentation, you'll get my unique combination of professionalism and playfulness.

Below is a listing of my most popular speaking topics for your review. Need to know more about me? Take a look at my bio or give me a call.

For an energetic, informative, and engaging presentation or workshop, contact me at 847.516.0190 or by e-mail to secure your date.

Speaking Topics:

3 Keys to Guilt-Free Goal Setting

5 Steps to Guilt-Free Success

Claiming the "I" in Time

How to Get Rid of Guilt & Make Room for Passion in a S.E.C.

Three Secrets to Prevent & Reverse Burnout

What's on your inner MP3 Player?

Work/Life Balance - - It CAN Exist!

Your Money & Your Life

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3 Keys to Guilt-Free Goal Setting

Make 2008 Your Best Year Ever Using 3 Keys to Guilt-Free Goal Setting

What’s the difference between folks who achieve their goals and those who don’t? How come most of us end up setting the same New Year’s Resolution year after year? Have a big personal or business goal to achieve but don’t know where to begin?

In this fast-paced and interactive session, we cover the answers to all those questions and more! Learn:

  • Why “New Year’s Resolution style” goals rarely work
  • How to set SMART goals
  • Key steps for getting into action & maintaining momentum
  • The REAL secret of success

Come and revitalize your goals and hit the ground running in 2008!

See what participants are saying about 3 Keys to Guilt-Free Goal Setting

5 Steps to Guilt-Free Success

This introductory presentation provides 5 simple, though not always easy, steps to live happily, successfully and GUILT-FREE using the acrostic G.U.I.L.T.

This action-oriented talk will provide attendees:

  • 5 steps to Guilt-Free Success
  • an understanding of where they are in each step
  • an area of focus and some actions they will take for making improvements in that area

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Are you scarcely surviving the day? Tired of trying to be Wonder Woman, running at break-neck speeds yet feeling like the important things never get done? Put an end to feeling depleted and let go of any guilt around taking more time for you!

Attendees will learn to:

  • combat the real time stealers
  • let go of guilt
  • apply GUILT-FREE time management strategies
  • implement plans to increase energy
  • put into practice easy, cheap (or free) ways to pamper themselves

Discover how to slow down your hectic pace, get done what really matters and Claim the “I” in your TIME - - Guilt-Free!

Read about the impact this talk has made for some previous participants

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How to Get Rid of Guilt & Make Room for Passion in a S.E.C.

Have you found trying to be “Superman or Superwoman” is not so super – - leaving you depleted, resentful, stressed, and with no energy for your passions? As parents and professionals we want to get it all done, live passionately, AND feel good about it, but where do we begin?

During this interactive talk, Victoria Cook, The Guilt-Free shares tips for reducing guilt and simple steps to make room for your passion and live the passionate, Guilt-Free life you desire and deserve!

Participants will learn :

  • The primary sources of guilt in our lives
  • How feelings of guilt manifest themselves
  • How to get rid of guilt in a S.E.C.
  • Simple strategies for increasing energy
  • How to create more space for your passion
  • Next steps for CREATING your passion filled, Guilt-Free life!

Feeling stressed and burnt out? Want more energy in your life? Need more time to do what YOU really want to do? Then this 4-week teleclass is for you!

Being a working woman and Mom places many demands on our schedule, body, mind, & spirit. We all need time to focus on ourselves to strengthen our balance, well-being & quality of life in order to better care for those we love.

We will cover:

  1. Unique tips to reverse burn out and stress
  2. How to focus on things that provide you with energy and reduce stress by eliminating energy drainers
  3. Why Guilt-Free self-care should be a priority in your life (and why that’s not “selfish”!!!)
  4. How to set healthy boundaries
  5. Creative tips for Guilt-Free self-care and how to make them work for you

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Our inner dialogue is often our biggest obstacle to achievements! Whether you call it a Gremlin, Saboteur, Limiting Belief or Inner Critic, the net result is the same: You stay stuck and unable to complete the actions that will improve success.

This fast-paced & interactive presentation will help you:

  • Identify the self talk that drags you down
  • Learn the top 5 ways to change your "inner play list"
  • Create the kind of self talk that leads to success
  • See how the tool of coaching can be used on an audience member's REAL challenge to create action & lasting change

Who should attend? Anyone who:

  • Needs to improve their self-talk for enhanced career or business success
  • Knows their inner dialogue is sabotaging their goals
  • Procrastinates when it’s time to excel

Change your tune and create success!

Read what participants are saying about What's on your inner MP3 Player

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We live in an over-stressed and busy culture where work/life balance seems to be an allusive goal. If you are feeling trapped and a victim of your life and work circumstances then this workshop is what you need to get back into the driver’s seat of your life.

Balance is really a series of little shifts and not an end-point destination. The balance we currently have, or don’t have, is the result of the choices we have made.

This workshop will help you:

  • Explore where you are in several areas of your life
  • Identify 1 or 2 areas for improvement
  • Refine your unique vision of a balanced life

In this session you will learn:

  1. Strategies for moving from passive or reactive living to active living where you can choose the life you desire!
  2. What it is you are saying Yes and No to, and the effect it has on your balance
  3. Tactics to maintain your balance

Read what people are saying about Work/Life Balance - - It CAN Exist!

 

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Is it REALLY possible to balance the demands of work, children, & home? Do you feel confident you can secure n excellent education for your children AND a comfortale retirement for yourself?

Join The Guilt-Free Coach as she teams up with Jennifer Dallas of Morgan Stanley as they answer these questions and provide solid answers and proven methods for identifying your unique life balance and making it a reality!

In this 90-minute workshop you will learn to:

  • Define, prioritize, and balance both your personal life AND financial goals
  • Teach your kids about money
  • Overcome common financial and investing mistakes
  • Create & prioritize key actions to move you forward

Who needs this? Parents who:

  • Want to improve their life balance and harmony
  • Recognize the importance of proactively managing their financial goals
  • Would like to provide a values-based education for their children without sacrificing long-term retirement plans

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Victoria Cook, The Guilt-Free Coach
Chicago Executive Coach, Business Coach, Life Coach & Public Speaker
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