Their Story Matters with Sara Troy and her guest Julie Connor airs from August 30th
As a keynote speaker, passionate youth and youth leadership advocate, a seasoned educator, and author of an award-winning goal-setting book, Dreams to Action Trailblazer’s Guide, I prepare youth to be leaders and adults to be mentors and role models. I have shown young people and adults in schools and churches, organizations and nonprofit organizations throughout the country how to welcome and actively involve youth and build collaborative leadership in the life of their communities as a consultant, trainer, program director, and youth minister for more than 30 years.
My youth leadership workshops and articles led to speaking and TEDx presentations.
I love teaching. I love building collaborative youth leadership teams.
As a speaker, educator, and youth advocate, I prepare youth to be leaders and adults to be mentors and role models.
I pay it forward. I provide at-risk youth and families with goal-setting tools and training in Kansas City’s urban core.
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I empower teens, teachers, youth leaders, and adults who love young people how to break through labels and bullying to build caring communities. I specialize in vision, mission, and goal-setting strategies; collaboration and teamwork; consensus, communication, and conflict resolution. I also facilitate courageous conversations about diversity and inclusion.
In 2011, I graduated with a doctoral degree in educational leadership. My dissertation was a research model in two universities – and I lost my job. The school district where I work closed schools and my position was eliminated. I had to figure out how to transform the organizational strategies I shared with groups into a personal plan of action to reinvent myself and create a new career.
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Lance is a father of 3. He has owned a number of successful businesses and has always had an entrepreneur’s spirit. Always wanting more than what the typical 9 to 5 job would offer Lance always looked for a creative way to make more. When his son was only 4 he started teaching him about money and business leading him to be a success amongst his peers before the age of 15. Lance has been coached and trained with the likes of Robert Kiyosaki, bestselling author of the book Rich Dad Poor Dad, Robert’s advising team, Darren Weeks, Josh and Lisa Lannon, Ken McElroy, Blair Singer, Andy Tanner, Tom Wheelwright, Garret Sutton. Lance’s teaching has come from a variety of other people like Vern Harnish, Harv Eker, Bob Molle, Colin Sprake, Ron White and many more. Today Lance owns a number of real estate properties and manages 2 businesses but not until one teaching did he find his true purpose and passion of helping young people. Lance created the Young Entrepreneurs Training program with the goal to make a difference in young people around the world. Teaching things our school systems should be teaching but are extremely slow at adopting. His goal is to make a difference in this world even if it means one person at a time.
Jenny was born in Yellowknife, but lived the majority of her life in Vernon, British Columbia. Jenny graduated Grade 12 with Honors and Scholarships and then moved right after High School to Vancouver to attend Vancouver Film School for Animation and is now a 2D Classical and 3D Digital Character Design Animator. Jenny recently just finished working on a film for Super Channel with her animation and about to start on another film. Jenny also published her novel of a Trilogy in May 2015 and right from pre order was an Amazon and Canadian Best Seller. She is currently working on the second novel for the Trilogy. Despite being diagnosed with very low functioning Autism at 3 years old, Jenny has blossomed and always remained focused on pursuing her dreams and is passionate in inspiring others to do the same. She has just turned 23 this month, 95 % out of her Autism and is living proof and a role model to show others that Autism is not a Death Sentence but a rich fulfilled Life Sentence.
Janet Walmsley is a born and raised Manitoban, where she lived 20 years of her life and the who has also lived in Vernon, BC, Yellowknife, NWT and Germany. Janet was a Dental Assistant & Hygienist for 27 years and Head Marketer for a Canadian Company for 14 years. She now lives in Vancouver, BC Canada and along with being a Mother to Jenny and her son Chris, Janet has an active professional career in acting, with her theater career spanning decades and been in Film, TV, Commercials, Voice Overs and much more, for the past 6 years. Recently Janet was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for a Comedy at the 6th Annual Indie Awards in Los Angles and was submitted for Leo Award nomination here in BC. In June of 2016, Janet was awarded the 2016 Unlimited Woman of Creativity in Victoria, BC. When Jenny was first diagnosed with Autism it has been Janet’s mission to support Jenny 110% and raise Autism awareness and bring out the positive of Autism and not the usual stigma with it. Janet has and does work tirelessly in every avenue to provide all the support and opportunities for her daughter and be her constant rock, her voice and sounding board. Even going out of Canada to research Autism, find more support and further her knowledge about caring for her daughter. Even though diagnosed with Breast Cancer in July of 2014, Janet published her own book, The Autistic Author and Animator, A Mother’s View of a Daughter’s Triumph, as Janet and Jenny wanted to publish their books at the same time and do book events and talks together. It is also a best seller and Jenny’s story is reaching out and touching the hearts of many people. Her story is not only to reach out to the Autistic community, but to everyone.
Dr. Catana Tully grew up trilingual (German, Spanish, English) in Guatemala where she attended elementary and middle school. In tenth grade she entered a boarding school in Jamaica, WI and received her Advanced Level Higher Schools Certificate from Cambridge University, England. Expecting to become an international interpreter, she continued her studies at the Sprachen und Dolmetscher Institut in Munich, Germany. However, she was called to work in a play and discovered her affinity for the dramatic arts. She became the actress and fashion model Catana Cayetano and appeared in Film and TV work in Germany, Austria, and Italy. In Munich she met and married the American actor Frederick V. Tully and ultimately moved to the United States. They have a son, 
Patrick. In Upstate New York, she completed the BA in Cultural Studies, an MA in Latin American and Caribbean Literature, and a DA (doctor of Arts) in Humanistic Studies. She held the position of tenured Associate Professor at SUNY Empire State College, from which she retired in 2003. She returned in 2005 for part time work in ESC’s Center for International Programs, where she served as Mentor and instructor in the Lebanon program, and as Interim Program Director for the Dominican Republic. In 2011 she retired completely to dedicate herself to publishing Split at the Root. She is currently preparing an academic version discussing the psychological issues embedded in the memoir.
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