Hardwire Resilience
How to build emotional endurance: the capacity to handle hard things without breaking down.
Counselor · Speaker · Comedian · Author
MS, LPCC-S, CWC · Co-Founder & Chief Coping Officer, Sprouting Change
A clinical counselor, author, speaker, and comedian who believes understanding ourselves shouldn't have to be so serious. Laurie combines clinical expertise with humor and practical tools to make the science of coping accessible, engaging, and genuinely useful in everyday life.
Don't just hear it. Feel it.
Everything Laurie teaches from the stage, she built into the Emotional Endurance Carnival: 30+ hands-on booths where your people practice real coping skills and keep the ones that fit. Book the Carnival on its own, or open it with a keynote from Laurie.
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Keynotes
Each talk pairs with the Carnival, so the ideas from the stage become skills on the midway.
How to build emotional endurance: the capacity to handle hard things without breaking down.
Why regulated teams are safer teams, and how leaders can stop avoiding stress and start managing it.
Practical Conscious Coping © skills for the professionals who support people in crisis.
Burnout isn't laziness. What happens when you run on empty, and how to refill before you break.
Also available: Crimson MacDonald on small business ownership, organizational psychology, and building a startup.
The books
Conscious Coping is the book behind the skills on the midway. Laurie's next book, Dear John, is on the way.
Where Laurie has spoken
Member, National Speakers Association Ohio.
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