I’m a motivational speaker on the topic of happiness and a great advocate for creating space to feel.  

Born and raised in the heartbeat of America (Omaha, NE), I’m proud to have cultivated the skill to speak to audiences worldwide and touch millions.

Every time I speak from the stage I do it with the same goal in mind: to inspire you to think. Thinking is a skill once mastered opens the doors to so much happiness and positive changes in your life.

The greatest difficulty about being a happiness speaker is people assume the reason I’m so happy is because I haven’t experienced enough hard stuff.

What they don’t know is I became a mom when I was seventeen years old and a senior in high school. I dropped out of high school but with the help of my guidance counselor reenrolled and became the first person in my family to graduate high school and go on to earn my bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Putting myself through undergrad and grad school with a child resulted in nearly two hundred thousand dollars of student loan debt. That I paid off over five years with an income starting at $800 a month. I’ve been an entrepreneur for nearly two decades with nothing more than an irrational passion to see people happy, an insatiable appetite to learn, and a gift to speak.

Sounds unbelievable I know (I documented most of my financial journey over on my YouTube channel). Through it all, I’ve become an example of what is possible.

I’m a sought-after speaker and keynoter, who takes on stages around the globe on topics related to living your very best life, financial dignity, mental and emotional wellness, and happiness. From Kigali Rwanda to Toronto, Canada I’ve spoken across the globe.

My TED Talk, The 5 Key People You Need to Succeed & Be Happy has been viewed over 1 million times.