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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS SATURDAY - GENERAL SESSION 3

WENDY ONEIL Pearls with Purpose

Wendy ONeil is known as a Social Impactor, Certified High-Performance Coach, International Keynote Speaker and Humanitarian. Her most valued role is the mother of five amazing kids and Nana to seven spectacular grandchildren who fill her heart with love and her days with joy, laughter, and last-minute adventures! In 2002, Wendy founded the Pearls with Purpose Foundation, a grassroots organization that blends micro-enterprise training with humanitarian assistance. Through this nonprofit, she has inspired and motivated people worldwide with her hand-up versus hand-out approach to long-term self-reliance. She partners with like-minded organizations to help create dignity for women recovering from sex trafficking or abusive/disadvantaged situations by teaching hands on vocational skills. She has an adventurous spirit and for years her motto has been, “Life begins where your comfort zone ends.” She designed and published the Unstick The Stuck planner which helps bring sustained levels of purpose, energy, productivity, curiosity, and joy to the forefront of life. With the ongoing struggle of mental illness, anxiety, and simply feeling “not enough,” Wendy shares concrete tools to help individuals reflect on that which is in their control to change. She has also written the long-awaited children’s story, The Purple Dress , which emphasizes the value of contribution and living a more purposeful life.