Need a speaker for your next event?
Becky Vollmer is a powerful and dynamic presence with a thoughtful, down-to-earth style — and not just in the yoga studio.
Becky is an ideal keynote speaker, panel moderator and group facilitator, whether the focus is on empowerment in the workplace, personal development, behavior change, yoga and spirituality, sobriety, or health and wellness.
Polished by two decades in the corporate and political arenas, Becky is professional and relatable for a variety of audiences and speaking topics.
Over the years, she’s delivered her brand of insights, straight talk and humor at national conferences, leading wellness and retreat centers, women’s conventions and more. She delivers messages of empowerment and choice that guide people to find more fulfillment in the lives they are creating. Her first-person experiences and insights will have your audience questioning, connecting, laughing, crying — and, most importantly, taking action.
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Looking to book a guest for an upcoming event? Becky is an experienced speaker for corporate, nonprofit, academic and community audiences. She delivers a unique, compelling point of view on empowerment in many forms, drawn from the disciplines of psychology, sociology, spirituality, somatics, neuroscience, management and strategic communications.
Keynote, discussion and workshop topics include:
- Personal development and growth
- Work/life balance
- The empowerment gap
- Open-hearted leadership
- Employee empowerment as a workplace retention strategy
- Empowerment and mental health, especially for women and girls
- Wellness and well-being
- Living your values and priorities
- Creating a playbook for change
- Knowing when to walk away
- Transforming fear into freedom
- Making soul-guided choices
- Weighing tradeoffs, consequences, and boundaries
- Using new yardsticks to measure your life
- Courageous communications
- Emotional literacy
- The body/mind/spirit connection
- Mindfulness, from parenting to the workplace
- Yoga philosophy for the modern age
- How to breathe
- How yoga helps reduce stress and anxiety while increasing productivity and inner peace
- Recovery and sobriety, especially emotional sobriety
- Getting off autopilot
- Gaining control by releasing the need for it
And, of course, Becky can lead an audience through a gentle, accessible yoga/breath/meditation practice that supports all those things.
If what you seek is a bold, engaging, relentlessly optimistic storyteller to inspire and empower, look no further.
Becky combines deep caring with a kick-ass attitude (and humor!) to help you break the cycle, form new habits, and find a new — healthier and happier — path for your life.
Amy Calvin
Executive Coach
Becky is the teacher that was brought into my life at exactly the moment I needed her teachings. She empowered me to use my voice and changed my life.
Linda
If you’re interested in having Becky at your upcoming event, please fill out the form below.
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I don't know about you, but I've had a complicated relationship with work – at least I did before I traded power heels for yoga pants back in 2013.
I was someone who was incredibly proud of my career, perhaps past the point of vanity. I worked first as a newspaper journalist, later as a political campaign manager and, lastly, as a public relations/public affairs practitioner.
Those 20 years gave me so much: Knowledge. Experience. Access to decision-makers and the ability to influence them. A craft that was somehow unique yet offered remarkably transferable skills. Belonging. Identity. Financial security and a comfortable lifestyle.
After my first daughter arrived, and even more after my second, that career became less a source of happiness and more a wedge that separated me from my Self. Every day, I armored up for yet another unwinnable inner battle and asked: Who am I going to disappoint today? Which of these things that I value must suffer the consequence of being spread too thin?
Knowing I couldn't possibly serve them all, would I prioritize my daughters? My husband? Bosses? Clients? Colleagues? Friends?
Ultimately, what suffered most was my sanity.
My soul.
Because, hard as I tried, I simply couldn't reconcile having my head and my heart so disconnected.
The gap between who I was and who I so desperately wanted to be was a chasm, and what remained of me in that center space was choking on self-loathing. It didn't matter how much alcohol I threw at it; in fact, that only gave me more to choke on.
So one day I left... and didn't look back.
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Each time I share versions of this story – in front of audiences large and small – I witness others' tears as they recognize within themselves the soul-level disconnection that often shows up at work.
The circumstances may be different, of course, but the pain of feeling out of alignment in such an important aspect of life is unmistakably common.
Perhaps interests have changed or values evolved. Maybe there are unresolvable conflicts with managers, coworkers, leadership.
Questions about purpose and meaning. Ethical concerns and dilemmas. Resentments. Mental or physical health conditions. New or intensified caretaking responsibilities. Compensation issues. Untenable situations of workplace harassment or discrimination or danger.
Maybe you've been working in a J-O-B but believe you have a deeper mission to fulfill. Maybe you have no interest in working in your field of advanced study anymore. Maybe you want to develop new skills in preparation for a second (or third or fourth) act. Maybe you want to work in a different part of the world. Maybe you won the lottery and don't need to work anymore but aren't quite ready to retire. Maybe other people in your life rely on your paycheck but don't really care whether you're fulfilled.
Maybe you feel like you're suffocating.
Maybe you're
Just.
Fucking.
Bored.
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If you are feeling the pull to re-examine the relationship with your work/career, I want to invite you to retreats I'm co-hosting this summer with Michael Wilson of Joyful Gravity.
The first is in northern California in June, followed by Kripalu in August. East Coast/West Coast, we've got you covered!
Let me tell you a little about Michael if you don't know him already...
After many years in high-dollar tech sales, Michael listened to the voice within and followed all the places his heart was calling: yoga, sobriety, coaching, sound healing, meditation. His knowledge is extensive and his energy is exquisite. It takes only a moment in his presence to feel his genuineness and contagious joy, and there is no one I'd rather talk with about how best to align our work with our deepest selves.
So! Please consider this your invitation to join us this summer, whether in California or Massachusetts. Registration for June is open now; August will soon follow. We would love to see you there! ... See MoreSee Less
Women. Feminism. Black. Race/Racism. Sexuality. Disability. Trauma. Mental health. Climate science. Hate speech. Social justice.
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Absolute. Fucking. Insanity.
Who made him hate so much?
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Walter White’s first week out of the shelter and into his forever HOME 🥰 ... See MoreSee Less