Presentation Topics
The Workforce is Restless– Not since the industrial revolution have employees held this much power in the workplace. In August of 2021, employees of all generations started what’s being called
the “Great Resignation.”
Looking for higher pay, more rewarding work, flexibility, and work-life balance, employees have had enough. It’s predicted that we are likely to see this talent reshuffle for the next two years.
This session will help managers rethink what’s good for the business and the employees as well as reflect on their current employer-employee relationships.
We will discuss the millennial tsunami making up today’s workforce and how they are influencing the job market. How can you ease the restless workforce? By learning what matters to each generation and what they want in a career.
After COVID Feeling Bent, not Broken – Over the past 18 months, COVID has consumed our lives and taken us out of our comfort zone. Yet, we have learned to adapt and also learned new technologies and new ways of delivering services.
This session will look at how COVID has affected our resilience, creativity, and comfort levels. You will learn positive, uplifting strategies to focus on, so we don’t come out of the pandemic the way we came into the pandemic. We are bent, but not broken.
Beyond Balance: Work, Home and Self Care – For working adults, striking a balance between work and home is always a challenge.
This session will show participants how to find a balance point at the end of each workday so they can fully focus on life after work—no more “Candy Crush orphans” and neglected spouses.
Learn practical steps to clear your mind at the end of each day so you can relax and find balance in daily life.
“Ms. Espinoza shared stories of personal challenges and survival that were very inspirational. I have long been a training and development specialist myself, and as such, I especially appreciated her delivery as a master trainer.
She understands what engages adults so that they will actively participate in their learning experience, and her rich, insightful, and inspiring stories reminded me of what’s truly important in life.
Her message also supports the work-life balance model, which helps reduce absenteeism and worker’s compensation claims.”
- Client
Building Relationships Within Your Workforce – This session will show you how to work effectively with each of the five generations present in the workforce today.
This upbeat, very motivational presentation will show you how to accentuate the positives that each generation brings to the workforce and how to motivate each group by matching the perks to the person.
Developing Teen Tenacity
Developing Teen Tenacity.
This 1-hour session can be delivered live or via a 5-part series that’s part of your high school student mental health series. Each part in the student mental health series is only 12 minutes and discusses topics such as
Testimonial
My name is Jacquelyn Rathbun and I work as a high school teacher. I contacted Kathy Espinoza to do a lesson on "Teen Tenacity" during the Corona Virus Pandemic in 2020. During the pandemic and distance learning, it was hard to see how students were doing every day on zoom calls with all of the cameras and microphones turned off. It was hard to see how students were doing: emotionally, physically, and mentally. I was hoping that having Kathy speak to my students, would create a dialogue between myself and the students as well as build trust in me and each other.
Kathy Espinoza did an AMAZING job of defining stress, and what stress looks like in ourselves and others. She detailed the many stressors that our teens face every day, from school work, taking care of siblings at home, and working part-time jobs, to stress with friends and significant others as well as the challenges presented by covid: isolation, depression, anxiety, loss of participating in extracurricular activities, deaths of loved ones, and financial burdens that families now face. She goes into detail about how all of these stressors affect us, but also, how we can cope and overcome these challenges, hence, why it is called "Teen TENACITY." Tenacity, as she defines it, is the ability to keep going, even when times are tough.
After Kathy's talk, which helped students through what was no doubt, one of the most challenging, most stressful times of their lives, I had so many students open up to me about what they were going through in their lives. Several had been on the brink of suicide but after seeing Kathy Espinoza's talk, they wanted to reach out and get help. Their lives did not feel as hopeless as they had before the talk. It truly opened the communication gates for many students. They could trust me more because, by showing these videos, I showed them that I am empathetic to what they are going through.
I am a firm believer that these videos helped save many lives and affected hundreds of other lives for the better. Her voice and words allowed a generation of students to feel validated and as if people cared about them. Someone understood them AND gave them ways to cope with what they were going through. Kathy's words were powerful and gave many students the strength to come forward and reach out for help during a global crisis.
Thank you, Kathy, for giving my students this gift! We are forever thankful! 😀
Jacquelyn Rathbun
AVID and English Teacher
Parenting Kids With Special Needs
Having four children of my own, each born with special needs, I understand the challenge of “finding balance” in life. Balance is that point somewhere between sanity and insanity, most often bordering on insanity.
Many teachers and parents spend a large portion of their day working with children or family members who have learning disabilities and never seem to find their balance point.
Three of my children have Tourette Syndrome, two have severe dyslexia, three have OCD, and two have ADD. Raising them successfully has been a challenge.
I put all four of them through college, and they now have careers as teachers, principals, and information technology personnel.
Has it been easy? No, but there are valuable lessons I’ve learned over the past 37 years that I can share with other parents and teachers.
I know firsthand the struggle teachers and parents face in trying to keep their sanity and find balance at the end of each day.
This 60-minute session will go over proven, practical steps teachers and parents can use to clear their minds at the end of each day so they can relax and find that daily balance in life.
My story is inspiring. I have been doing this for 37 years, and I would like to share my story and tips with parents and educators.
Life After Cancer: How To Survive
What’s a Minute Worth to You? – Every time I visit the beautiful islands of Hawaii, I fantasize about retiring and living there forever.
I imagine waking up to the westerly winds blowing through my hair, swimming in the warm, inviting oceans, and feeling the sun on my face as I relax and take in the splendor of each new day.
In reality, over time, I know I would welcome this paradise at first and then find a way to create the perpetual to-do list, find places I have to go visit, and slowly merge into the fast lane of life once again.
I would take for granted the beauty of this heavenly place, and once that occurs, the beauty would lose its value. It’s the same with time. We don’t value time until we are near the end of it.
Minutes tick by each hour of the day, and we assume they will roll over and that tomorrow we will have more. It’s not until our days are numbered that one truly finds the value of a minute.
I am part of a club, one that I didn’t ask to join. My club is called the “cancer club,” and it started seven years ago.
Diagnosed with bladder cancer, I wondered how a person who exercises seven days a week, doesn’t eat meat, drink, or smoke would gain membership in this group.
I learned that chasing down a cause only becomes exhausting and doesn’t change the end result.
Having cancer with an 80 percent return rate, I realized that my time on earth was precious, so I learned to value each day, live in the moment, and be really present with my family and my job.
I have spent the last seven years lecturing on finding balance in life and learning how to separate work from home in order to value each of them in their own space. Then recently, I renewed my membership in this club.
Three months ago, my cancer returned, found on routine recheck, without any symptoms announcing its arrival. It crept back into my life at a point where I was getting comfortable with time.
I was feeling smug about getting my kids into adulthood, was still enjoying spending time with the person I fell in love with in high school 36 years ago, and was working for a fantastic company—life was good.
Surgery was done two weeks later and chemo started the following week. If ignorance is bliss, with cancer, this only lasts one week.
Progressing through six weeks of poison being injected into my system, I felt weakened and realized that I’d taken my good health for granted as I watched my hard-earned muscles shrivel and my wrinkles succumb to gravity. Suddenly, I was old.