Merri Macartney is a comedienne, a storyteller, and your favorite teacher all rolled into one sassy, energizing package.
She puts the funny into personal and professional challenges and serves up real-life strategies that make audiences excited to implement and eager to return to your next event.
Choose one of Merri’s signature keynotes and keep your audience on the edge of their seats!
Juggling Can Be Hazardous to Your Health: How to Get Out of the Land of Overwhelm!
Most people find themselves living in the Land of Overwhelm. They are trapped in a cycle of juggling too many things for too many people without realizing the toll it takes. It’s time to stop the madness!
This interactive keynote will challenge audiences to think and regroup their daily routines, so they can take back control, set priorities, and safeguard relationships. They will come away with specific steps to get moving in the right direction with a renewed commitment to themselves.
Learn How To:
- Discover the true cost of busyness and the impact on your health and wellness.
- Avoid the Land of Regret by prioritizing your time to maximize your opportunities.
- Experience the Law of Forced Efficiency and use it to increase productivity.
- Open doors of opportunity by eliminating the Failure to Execute Syndrome.
Optional Breakout Session:
Your Comfort Zone: Is It Paradise or A Prison?
When asked, most people can describe what their comfort zone looks like. For some, it’s hanging out in their PJs huddled in a blanked on the couch. For other, it’s sitting alone in a dark movie theater to avoid social gatherings. But maybe, just maybe, it’s really a jail and they are locked away in a prison of their own choosing.
This provocative and humorous keynote offers a twist on an age old perspective and dares to ask the question. From what is your comfort zone keeping you? Audiences are challenged to look at their comfort zone through a new lens, and by interacting with one another, learn that their notion of playing it safe may be keeping them from achieving a higher level of success.
Learn How To:
- Recognize the stressors that drive you to seek out your comfort zone.
- Identify what your comfort zone is keeping you from achieving.
- Identify strategies you can implement to minimize fear of the unknown.
- Recognize that taking calculated risks lead to healthy change.
Optional Breakout Session:
Escaping the Dreamsuckers
Have you ever had people in your life not be supportive of the dreams to wish to pursue? It can be frustrating and soul sucking, but there are many choices. Some succumb to the voices of the naysayers and are forever regretful. Others fight through until they escape – and you can too!
In this interactive keynote, discover 5 strategies that can set you free to live the life you choose, not the one chosen for you.
Learn How To:
- Separate the choices into those others want and those you want.
- Communicate so that you build bridges rather than walls.
- Identify strategies to deal with difficult people and avoid conflict.
- Be bold enough to make changes in yourself even if others disagree.
Optional Breakout Session: