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Samantha delivers impactful keynotes rooted in her lived experience as a cancer survivor, leadership facilitator, and emotional resilience coach. Her talks blend storytelling with strategy, offering actionable tools for audiences to reframe challenges, lead authentically, and find purpose even when life doesn’t go as planned. Samantha doesn’t just speak, she activates. Her message challenges audiences to reflect, reframe and respond.
Beyond Reason: Leading with Purpose
A KEYNOTE ON REDEFINING LEADERSHIP THROUGH PERSPECTIVE, RESILIENCE, AND MEANING-MAKING
In this keynote, Samantha challenges the myth that “everything happens for a reason,” and instead offers a more grounded, human approach: we give purpose to the things that happen — not the other way around.
Drawing from her own experiences surviving stage 2 triple negative breast cancer at 34, navigating personal and professional loss, and spending over a decade designing and facilitating leadership programs at Disney, Samantha brings a fresh, honest take on what it means to lead from a place of depth, not perfection.
Beyond Reason explores how the most powerful leaders are not the ones with the most polished resumes, but the ones who have lived, processed, and chosen to rise with clarity and compassion and who help others do the same.
AUDIENCE TAKEAWAYS:
Shift from “everything happens for a reason” to “you give purpose to what happens”
Learn how to lead with lived experience
Understand how reframing personal and team adversity builds trust and resilience
Walk away with tools to anchor teams in purpose, especially during uncertainty
Embrace storytelling as a leadership asset, not a liability
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Corporate leadership events
Culture and DEI summets
Women in leadership conferences
Wellness or burn-out focused sessions
Personal development events in business spaces
Beyond Negative: Reclaiming Meaning When You Can’t Rewrite the Story
A KEYNOTE ABOUT RESILIENCE, PERSPECTIVE, AND REWRITING YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH WHAT YOU’VE BEEN THROUGH
We don’t always get to control what happens to us — the diagnosis, the betrayal, the loss, the breakdown. But what if healing wasn’t about changing the story, and instead about reclaiming what it means?
In this deeply moving and empowering keynote, Samantha shares her journey of surviving triple negative breast cancer at 34, rebuilding after a painful breakup, and healing from years of emotional trauma — all while being expected to “stay strong.” What she discovered in that journey wasn’t false positivity or quick-fix mindset hacks. It was a process of choosing to go beyond negative — not by pretending the pain didn’t exist, but by facing it with honesty, reframing it with perspective, and turning it into purpose.
This keynote introduces Samantha’s signature Beyond Negative framework: a powerful approach to navigating the “before, during, and after” of life’s hardest moments, and helping individuals, teams, and communities move from being defined by what happened to being empowered by what it means now.
AUDIENCE TAKEAWAYS:
Learn how to honor hard experiences without being trapped in them
Understand the difference between forced positivity and authentic perspective
Discover the Beyond Negative framework and how to apply it to real life, relationships, and leadership
Reclaim a sense of control, identity, and purpose in the aftermath of challenge or change
Walk away with practical tools to shift mindset, language, and narrative
PERFECT FOR:
Wellness and personal growth events
Women’s empowerment conferences
Patient and survivor communities
Corporate events focused on mindset, leadership or resilience
Mental health or emotional well being sessions in workplace settings
Just Happy To Be Here: The Power of Perspective in Uncertain Times
A KEYNOTE ABOUT GRATITUDE, GROUNDED RESILIENCE, AND REDEFINING WHAT IT MEANS TO SHOW UP WHEN LIFE DOESN’T GO AS PLANNED
“Just happy to be here” might sound like a throwaway line — something we say when we don’t know what else to say. But for Samantha, it became a mantra born from survival.
Diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer at 34, left heartbroken during treatment, and faced with the emotional weight of a traumatic past, Samantha’s world unraveled. And yet, every time she showed up — for herself, for her healing, for her future — she said the words: I’m just happy to be here. Not out of toxic positivity, but out of deep, earned perspective.
This keynote is about what happens when life forces us to let go of control, outcomes, and expectations — and how we can still choose to show up with presence, courage, and purpose. It’s about what it really means to lead, live, and love through uncertainty. And most of all, it’s about finding meaning in the middle of the mess.
AUDIENCE TAKEAWAYS:
Explore how perspective can be a took for grounded optimism, not denial
Learn the difference between gratitude and toxic positivity
Build emotional flexibility and resilience it times of uncertainty
Discover how presence, even without perfection, is a form of leadership
Reconnect with purpose when the plan no longer makes sense
PERFECT FOR:
Companies navigating change, transition or uncertainty
Employee wellness, resilience and burn-out prevention programs
Women’s events, leadership summits, and survivor communities
Anyone feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure of what comes next
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