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Her practical presentations leave audiences more focused and driven to carry out her strategies. With a 20-year career in performing arts, she brings a unique blend of excitement, positivity and useful knowledge to your audience.
Melissa is available for one-hour, half-day and full day workshops on topics relating to health and wellness. For a sampling of topics, please read below. Custom workshops are also available.

To inquire about a speaking engagement, please contact Melissa at (856) 816-3413 or casseracommunications@gmail.com

Melissa speaks at the following venues:

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Sample Topics:

howtodaydream

Everyone gets lost in their thoughts, but how can you make your daydreams work for you? This workshop teaches the benefits of daydreaming and how to turn these fantasies into positive, energy-producing experiences.

Learn:

  • How daydreams enhance problem-solving capabilities
  • How to use daydreams to live a more creative life
  • Why daydreaming helps remove your mental ‘obstacles’
  • Stress-reduction through daydreams

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In life, we’re taught to plan. Plan what we want to do when we grow up. Plan where we will go to school. Write a formal business plan. But how often does the planning process deter us from actually ‘doing”.
This workshop shows how taking more risks can often lead to reward and why you will never win unless you fail.

Learn:

  • How to stop getting stuck ‘aiming’ and start ‘firing’
  • Why failing can be the best thing for you
  • How to overcome fear simply by not planning
  • How to be accountable for your actions and tweak them as necessary to achieve your desired result

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Everyone dreads mundane tasks. Whether you hate paying bills, cleaning the house, making cold calls, or entering data at work, this workshop will show you simple strategies to spice up the most tedious tasks.

Learn:

  • How to create post-task rewards
  • The ‘three-breath’ strategy to get anything done
  • How to visually enhance your task to make it attractive
  • How to challenge yourself with task games
  • How to determine what time of day is best to complete certain tasks
  • How to turn your task into an exciting event

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Sample Topics:

healthislifestyle

Melissa tells audiences to STOP dieting and exercising to live a healthy lifestyle. Break the vicious cycle by adopting a wellness mentality, incorporating simple healthy eating strategies and physical training.

Learn:

  • Why diet and exercise regimens inevitably fail
  • How to psychologically adopt a healthier mindset, making healthy eating and physical activity an easier choice
  • How to connect with what you want and the real reasons you want it (aka – losing the last 10lbs)
  • How to redefine your understanding of health and wellness
  • How to commit for life

training4life

Training is not only relevant to exercise and sports. In this workshop, Melissa helps audiences adopt the ‘training’ mentality and motivates you to work toward a goal.

Learn:

  • Why you should only train for something you enjoy doing
  • How to change your capabilities
  • How to reach outside of your comfort zone
  • Why you should never assume
  • How to band together with others to reach a common goal
  • Why you should never stop learning
  • Why you should spend time with your toughest critic

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Remember back to those carefree moments of childhood, when stress about money, careers, and relationships never entered our minds. Melissa helps audiences reconnect with their inner-child and regain that childhood curiosity, innocence and enthusiasm.

Learn:

  • Why adopting the imagination of a child helps you become more creative as an adult
  • How to be more inquisitive to get what you want
  • Why playing like a kid will be a better fitness routine than anything you’re doing now
  • How to believe like a child, and chase your dreams

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sevenways

If you ever have ‘one of those days,’ this workshop is for you. Melissa shows how to push aside the ‘really no big deal’ daily catastrophe’s and restore your joy with one of the following strategies.

Learn:

  • Why sex is a great mood-lifter – even when you’re not in the mood
  • Why laughter is often the best medicine
  • How poor posture can lead to an unhappy existence
  • How to smile, even when it’s the last thing you want to do
  • How to create your emergency ‘happy kit’
  • How to banish negative self-talk
  • How to find your ‘happy partner’

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1 in 2 marriages end in divorce in the United States and while not every marriage can (or should) be saved, there are plenty of couples advocating the use of couples therapy to work through their problems. Marriage counseling can help couples understand and resolve conflicts and accept and respect opposing viewpoints. Couples that haven’t experienced marriage counseling often don’t know what to expect, and write off the process before attempting to see if it will work for them.
In this workshop, Melissa reveals her own experiences with marriage counseling to help demystify the process and help you come to a decision if it’s right for you.

Learn:

  • How to choose a therapist (and why it’s ok to consult with more than one)
  • Why attending individual therapy sessions is beneficial to your relationship
  • Why you may not ‘love’ your partner the way they want to receive love
  • A simple way to revive the excitement in your relationship through date nights
  • Why even therapy won’t make your marriage ‘perfect’ (and why that’s ok)