I am Currently circumnavigating the globe through all seven continents while I interview hundreds of people. I am gathering many diverse perspectives on why human connection and cooperation is essential including what is in every human regardless of differences that has the power to bring us all together! How can we Rise To Unite? Through this grand adventure, in fall 2025 I am delivering brand new, in-depth and robust keynote presentations created specifically for students of all grade levels. These presentations include important topics relevant to a students daily life.

What shoes will you choose to put on every day? What path and direction will you choose to walk in your life? The shoes you take each step in will determine what life you create for yourself. Make sure to choose shoes that bring you a strong, positive, healthy and successful life because if you choose the wrong shoes they may take you down a dangerous path where you could hurt your feet. Know you always have the choice and power to change your shoes to better your direction in life. I choose boots that take me around the world and inspire thousands of people!

Shine like the magnificent crystal you are. Did you know most of the beautiful crystals we enjoy today started out with a piece of dirt or other impurity? Usually in a pocket of water deep underground crystal starts forming around an impurity due to immense heat and pressure. Over millions of years of heat, pressure and only with an impurity to centre around beautiful crystals finally appear. This long underground process is needed to create the precious gems we admire just like how humans undergo a similar process to become successful. We all have impurities, insecurities, weakness, scars, limitations and reasons we tell ourselves why we can’t succeed. Instead realize these perfect imperfections are essential to this process and have love for them because they show you where you need to give attention, give love and put in effort. With enough time, practice, pressure and heat you can put in the consistent effort to become the precious gem that is inside of you. I make connections through sharing my personal experience with polishing my own “perfect imperfections” into the precious gem I’m now sharing.

Along these travels I’ve reached the summit of 2 mountains around 6000 meters in elevation. I’ve also completed several other long distance hikes around 15-25 KM. I complete these challenges for the lost teenager I was. Too depressed to get out of bed, to anxious to eat, too stressed to think about my future. Wanting to give it all up and quit. I push myself for him. To reinforce the belief and reality I have the strength and resilience to push through and become successful even when I feel I am on the brink of collapse. I show the lost teenager I was how far we have come, how strong we have become and no matter what we will never give up! Always keep going! 

Often, the largest mountains in our lives are not the ones everyone sees us standing on top of, but the momentous struggles within that no one sees. The mountains we don’t want to post online, the mountains we hide from everyone and are terrified of. The mountains we do not have the tools to safely climb without the support of a team cheering us on. I also complete challenges like this for anyone climbing a hidden mountain. I know how hard it is, I know how hopeless it feels. I’m here to show you how victorious you can be too. I’m here to show you the willpower and life force you have within you right now. I’m here providing the proof you can summit any mountain standing in front of you. Remember, even if you are on the brink of collapse, always choose to KEEP GOING. The dawn of a new day is coming, a glorious, amazing day. 

Become an inclusive member of your community. Through meeting and having conversations with hundreds of people from all over the world I have seen first hand how we all truly want to connect and feel included. Kindness is a common answer I receive that has the power to bring us together. Show up with kindness in your classroom, show up with kindness in the school yard, show up with kindness in the lunch room. Be inclusive and invite people to play sports with you or join the group to eat lunch. Kindness and inclusiveness are core human needs and super powers that create strong united communities. I share this through my travel experiences as I’ve found kindness and inclusiveness a core part of human beings in every single country I’ve been to so far.

I weave intriguing travel stories into these powerful messages that drive home the Rise To Unite message to students from all walks of life. We are here to build up strong, healthy, driven and independent young people so they can contribute to and be a part of a more kind and united community. Please consider booking a discovery call with me right now to find out more about Rise To Unite and invest in presentations that your students will carry with then the rest of their lives!