Biography Marie O'Neill speaks to help her audiences adapt to universal human concerns so they may live more fully. Marie offers answers for perplexing issues that people typically struggle with. Sometimes there is a need to gain or improve key skills. Or a solution may be about making a shift in outlook or attitude. Marie gleans practical insights through her down-to-earth wisdom about modern life's myriad challenges. She has spoken before many diverse and appreciative groups. Though her subject matter is often deep, her speaking style is transparent, easygoing, lighthearted, and entertaining. Marie's formal training in speech and her experience in stage acting bring a polished delivery to her diverse mix of relevant and compelling topics. Marie has been an  honor student at the University of Adversity. Her background includes growing up disadvantaged as a minority child. Rising above humble origins, she left poverty behind, making her dream of completing a college education a reality. She arranged to cover the costs through her own initiative, including an MBA degree. Marie's happy marriage was ended prematurely by her husband's death. After nursing him throughout his fatal illness, she has rediscovered life as a single woman. Her response was to dedicate herself to helping others, especially people who lose a mate. Marie is a practicing life coach -- trained, certified, and experienced. Giving counsel develops her awareness of life issues that real people encounter. Regular practice in helping people cope deepens her ability to resolve many kinds of issues and stresses. She brings a vast fund of adaptive knowledge to her speaking engagements. Writing an advice column extends Marie's helping experience even farther. She publishes in a way that makes her column available to the largest possible range of people, regardless of their location, lifestyle, or station in life. The column is delivered as a public blog on the internet, the first one ever devoted to issues of unwillingly becoming single in a world where being mated is the norm. Marie's column brings her frequent correspondence with people who are struggling after losing a relationship -- a subject area of high relevance today. Her evolved outlook is based on principles Marie has consciously sought out and adopted. Though raised in a fundamentalist environment, she has joyfully taken responsibility for her own personal development and for spiritual and philosophical growth. Some years ago, she embraced a belief founded on kindness, service to others, and discovery of one's life's purpose. She practices this path toward self realization. Marie's speaking career is a natural outgrowth of integrating her personal philosophy, interests, and aspirations with the course of her life's events. She's never happier or more at home than when helping individuals or speaking before a group. Marie constantly learns through classes and workshops. She often travels, especially to sacred places and exotic locations. Her professional speaking career is her way to share what she gleans from living her life's purpose with awareness, sensitivity, and a passionate desire to be of service. Reach Marie about speaking before your group or for individual adaptive counsel using the contact information on this web site. |
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