Maya Angelou is credited with saying, "People will forget what you said, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

When you want to have a lasting impact on your audience, whether it’s a group of clients, referral partners, business associates, or any other group you want to positively impact and influence, you need a speaker who can deliver a message that resonates, lasts, and shows your audience you “get” them.

Athena’s gift for delivering an empathetic, impactful message, combined with her unique life experiences, gives her an especially strong ability to connect with and have a lasting impact on audiences of all sizes.

When you need a speaker for your event, and you want to deliver a message that your audience will remember and act on, a message that’s tailored to your specific group, Athena can deliver. She will craft a speech that speaks to your audience in a way that meets them where they are.

Testimonials

Speaking Topics Include

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Make yourself into a rainmaker

Description

You CAN do this - you can be the Rainmaker for yourself, your company, and your family. Whether you are a sales professional working on your own or part of a team, or an entrepreneur struggling to figure out how to generate sales in a tough environment, you can become a continuous source of sales and revenue.

Key lessons

  • How to use the pain of your unfulfilled dream to drive you forward;
  • The value of coaching - especially when you can’t afford it;
  • Keep your ego out!
  • Prospecting is the key - how to use this key sales lever;
  • Building your support team - you can’t do it alone.

Outcome

You will learn to map out your own journey to become the Rainmaker that you want to be, and need to be, to support your goals and make your dreams happen. Map it out and execute it, sidestepping the pitfalls because you’ve learned how to see them coming.

Building an unbreakable sales foundation: Relationships, Referrals, Revenue

Description

Sales doesn’t have to be a “black box”. You can create a repeatable, sustainable machine that delivers sales in a reliable fashion, where known inputs give you predictable outputs. Athena describes the mindset, tools, and metrics you need to create a sales pipeline that matches your product and your target market.

Key lessons

  • 10 key steps in a successful Prospecting system;
  • The phases of success; how to use the System to build from one phase to the next;
  • How NOT to get comfortable and allow comfort to derail your success;
  • It’s OK to start from scratch - you’ll learn how to do it.

Outcome

You’ll unlock the Sales Black Box. Learn the key skill that’s the least well-understood among Sales Professionals: Prospecting. Turn that skill into a repeatable system.

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The REAL road to success: crushing the inevitable obstacles

Description

You have what it takes to be successful, you just need a guide who has been there, facing Goliath-sized obstacles and overcoming them. Learn from Athena’s personal journey, coming from beyond-humble beginnings, and overcoming eye-watering setbacks, and use her experience and lessons as fuel for your own journey.

Key lessons

  • Learn to embrace your authentic self, using both the good and bad to your advantage;
  • Finding hope through gratitude for the small things - small things add up to big things;
  • How to use the lessons of the obstacles, setbacks, and outright opposition to your advantage, as a higher place to clear hurdles that other people can’t even imagine getting past.

Outcome

You’ll gain a whole new perspective - the light will dawn for you on how your disadvantages and opponents actually make you so much stronger, to the point you wouldn’t trade those lessons for anything. Using those lessons, you’ll move forward with a speed that will shock you.

How Momentum beats Motivation: using momentum to crush your goals

Description

Relying on motivation to build sustainable success just won’t work. You’ve already tried. You need to create a system that builds on itself, a system with guardrails to keep you on track without relying on the daily grind of having to psych yourself up.

Key lessons

  • You can’t rely on daily motivation - it will fail you when you need it the most;
  • Prioritize - how to identify the “first things” and create a system that you can lean on to get those things done first;
  • Your mind needs your help - learn how to give it the help it needs to create your success;
  • Learn to recognize, and believe in, your own ability.

Outcome

You’ll come away with a clear vision and actionable steps for how to build a system around yourself that will build, and sustain, momentum in the journey to your goals.

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Athena's Past Events

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