“I thought for twenty years my abusive ‘wasband’ and MS kept me locked in the baggage compartment, until one day I discovered... I held the KEY to climb up out of that box. I held the KEY to My Actions and My Attitude.” Joyce Nelson Shellhart
Joyce's motivational address asks her audience to travel with her on a personal journey. With humor and honesty she confronts the choices she made that kept her traveling through life in the baggage compartment. Joyce asks her audiences to examine their own lives, their own choices, and accepting responsibility for the direction their lives are going and a vision for their own “First Class” life. Audiences have enthusiastically accepted her message of hope and personal responsibility in choosing how we travel this life.
Joyce has been very successful tailoring this presentation to fit many meeting and conference themes. Her speaking skills and audience interaction will leave a powerful impression with your audience. Consider this extraordinary woman to take your next event beyond the ordinary!
Joyce's motivational address asks her audience to travel with her on a personal journey. With humor and honesty she confronts the choices she made that kept her traveling through life in the baggage compartment. Joyce asks her audiences to examine their own lives, their own choices, and accepting responsibility for the direction their lives are going and a vision for their own “First Class” life. Audiences have enthusiastically accepted her message of hope and personal responsibility in choosing how we travel this life.
Joyce has been very successful tailoring this presentation to fit many meeting and conference themes. Her speaking skills and audience interaction will leave a powerful impression with your audience. Consider this extraordinary woman to take your next event beyond the ordinary!
Her life did not proceed as she had planned, disability from MS, divorce after a 20 year abusive marriage, and the struggles of a single, low-income mother led her down a much different path than she had imagined. Joyce founded the Ready for Success Program in 1997, which provides low-income women and men in the Minneapolis – St. Paul area with clothing and personal presentation advice. Ready for Success, now a program of Episcopal Community Services, has served over 20,000 men and women. She is the author of Dress to Impress, How a Navy Blazer Changed My Life. Her journey to social entrepreneur, author and professional speaker is inspirational as she humorously faces her own responsibility as victim to survivor to thrivor.