Not Your Average Keynote

A coach once told me: Be sure to tell people how old you are, Christina, because they'll be fooled by your youthful energy and playfulness. They also need to know how much old-soul wisdom you have. So... I'm 44.

I'm the breath of fresh air of the speaking world: refreshing, transformative and a little unpredictable.

Early morning and after lunch keynotes are my favourite. No internet surfing or dozing on my watch. I've had audiences dancing like toilet brushes, doing the Happy Bum and laughing at my mediocre cheerleading skills. Shazam!

Now the Founder and CEO of Courageous Self-Care, I'm a former secondary teacher who abandoned the red-tape of the education system so that I can truly teach. I march to the beat of my own drum and have given thousands of people permission to do the same.

I have big dreams, big energy and big results. When I ran the Courageous Self-Care Podcast from 2018-202, it had over 3300 downloads from 20+ countries.

As a speaker, I'm out of the box (wait, there was a box???), entertaining, uplifting and infectious. I get content out of people's heads and into their bodies so that they get lasting and impressive results. My trainings are highly sought-after, highly paid and high impact. 

I won copious trophies and medals while wearing tap shoes and costumes personifying me as a sailor, Rasputin (if you're thinking Bony M, you're spot on), a firework, a hobo and a cowboy.

I coached students to play volleyball, basketball, field hockey, and gymnastics. More importantly, I got those same students to do stupid-human tricks on video, to chase deflating balloons for warm-ups and to do their best impressions of me coaching.

I got married at 21. It seemed young to most people, but I was ready for full commitment at age 11. I scared off a lot of boys. I met my husband in a University dance class where we did a bowling dance. I was a pin. He was the bowler. Clearly destiny was involved.

As a teacher, I choreographed a Remembrance Day dance for 300 non-dancers. I blew the department budget in my first year of teaching. I got a thank you note from a grade 12 student that spoke of graceful elephants.

And then I left teaching because I had 2 exceptional children. After a year at home with my first, I realized I would be a better mom if I got some breaks so I started a home based business and promptly got awards for being top 10 in sales, 3 years in a row.

That was followed by 10 years of intensive personal development with some of the world's top trainers. I trained as an Embodiment Coach on Mexican beaches, Californian lavendar fields and on Pacific West Coast Islands.

I wrote an International Best Selling book about Ugly Awkward Dancing, my website got hacked and blacklisted by Google and then Courageous Self-Care was born from those ashes.