Speaking Topics
Rebekah L. Pierce
Publisher/Editor in Chief of Average Girl Magazine
Risk vs. Reward: Knowing When to Quit Your Day Job
Do you dread going to work? Feel like you were made to something else with your life other than working for “the man?” Or is your hobby starting to pay you more than your day job? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then it’s time to move on. In this interactive session, we will identify the risks and rewards of leaving your day job and following your purpose. Finally, we will learn 10 key strategies for implementing your purpose because although entrepreneurship may be calling, are you really ready for it?
Creating a Legacy in the Community and in Business
What do you want your legacy to be? Never thought about it before? Women today are far busier than our grandmothers or even our mothers ever where. From being a mother to wife to student to now being an entrepreneur, our legacy - that which you will leave behind you - is in jeopardy. That fact of the matter is that when it comes to talking about legacy, women hesitate because it seems too self-centered. But I argue that we, as women of today, need to start preparing and designing our own legacy. It is not a matter of self-centeredness, but of creating a roadmap or blueprint for future generations. Do you want to leave a legacy of depression or well-being and worthy service? In this interactive session, you will learn five key strategies to help you to not only create a legacy of service to your business, but to your community as well.
Taking Care of Self Inside and Out
Women today are more stressed and pressed than our mothers and grandmothers ever were. We are wives, mothers, businesswomen, students, grandmothers, employees, etc... In this 30 minute session, we will learn how to manage our many functions and roles by creating and accessing five life changing tools.
Launching a Career in Print
Rebekah L. Pierce, Editor in Chief of Average Girl Magazine shares the premise behind Average Girl Magazine and offers pointers for a career in print. Mrs. Pierce's inspirational message includes practical advice on networking, building a writing portfolio, creating the perfect query letter, publishing in print vs. electronic and entrepreneurship.
This workshop was created for Mass Communications, Journalism and English majors respectively, but can be tailored to any group interested in writing as a career.