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Feisty, funny and fabulous. Lisa O'Neill is an absolute beam of light that will electrify your conference.
With the rare ability to deliver powerful messages through side-splitting humour, Lisa is highly sought after as a keynote speaker and MC across Australia and New Zealand.
After more than a decade on stage, Lisa is consistently top-rated in conference evaluations. Participants love her straight-talking, refreshing wisdom and infectious laughter. They respond to her call to live big lives and to become the best version of themselves.
She is the author of six books, ‘Look Gorgeous Be Happy’ (2013) ‘Juggling in High Heels’ (2016), ’The Lickable Third’ (2018), '100 Questions to Self Awareness' (2019), 'Everything You Want' (2020) and ‘50 Things I Know Now’ (2021). Her depth and continuing insights enable her to tailor her messages to your audience, your industry and your conference theme. Her pride in being a polished professional means conference organisers love to work with her.
If you want a speaker who will crack open your audience with laughter so that they can absorb important, life-changing messages, then Lisa O'Neill is for you.
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The last 18 months have been like no other. We have been forced into a situation out of our control. We carried on in an unfamiliar and new routine, stretching ourselves and pivoting into new and unknown waters. From face-to-face, to an almost completely isolated and online environment. While many communities are now able to gather in groups, there are others still isolated. Teams need to connect and stay inspired. Distance and time are no barriers - lets talk about YOU and YOUR PEOPLE! Let me create an amazing LIVE online or in person experience for you!
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Lisa is absolutely fantastic, so genuine, inspiring and engaging! Both our face-to-face and virtual audience absolutely loved her speaking and her energy. Her ability to use story telling techniques and keep her session very relevant to the audience and at the same time so funny and engaging is outstanding. Her energy, enthusiasm and sense of humour are so contagious 😊. Thank you so much for opening our conference with such glamour and energising our audience for the rest of the day. - Eugenia
"I struggle normally with sales motivation/training speakers as it's usually the same old stuff and they bore me to tears and of course I usually think I know more than them anyway and shut off pretty quickly. Your presentation was outstanding, refreshing and yes even for arrogant old me very motivating. The humour and energy was infectious so just wanted to drop you a line saying thanks for a great experience." - Steve
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Living an exhausted life is no fun. There is no room for fun and then one day you wake up no longer sure of how fun even works…
We are a nation of exhausted women. So many exhausted, boring and unhappy women. We don’t get enough sleep, don’t eat the right food, have lost the art of being curious, have no time to wonder or wander and are too tired to make an effort, gather some support and change the way we live. And our unhappiness is contagious! We start to affect the people around us - unhappy partners, unhappy children. Our children want us to have lots of energy and have lots of fun. Our partners want us to be happy, sexy and interesting.
How is your parenting experiment going?
In the past 25 years of being a parent, I have finally worked out what parenting actually is - it is an experiment!
Sometimes thoroughly researched, sometimes intuitive, sometimes flying by the seat of my arse, thinking on the spot, kind of experiment!
There are lots of different types of parents running different types of experiments as we speak.
I have been doing a lot of planning lately. Planning is my answer to overwhelm. Every Monday, I have a meeting with myself. You can join me on my podcast - every Monday morning, I have a live meeting with the world juggling all the things that I want to do, have to do and need to do.
I am delighted to be a mature woman!
Don’t get me wrong. There are days when I wish I could pop back into my young body and party all night wearing not much! But mostly, I am very happy with my maturity. There are some amazing benefits to being on the other side of fifty!
I was accused of being pushy this week! Who me??!!
I was pushing someone to be better. Someone who had asked me to work with them. Someone who apparently wanted to be better. But when push came to shove, they dug their heels in. They went into full donkey mode.
Why? Because they were scared. Because what they want is on the other side of what they are avoiding!
I have always thought of my life as a movie.
Different phases, different times, different movies. I find it useful. I believe that I am an actor working through the scenes that I have been given. Often I do not know how the scene will end, I am not the director. I am the actor, whose role is to do the best job I can with the people, the scenes and the costumes that I am given!
I’m giving you 4 days off!
Easter is my favourite holiday as in my world it's the holiday with the least to do. I don’t have to wrap gifts, put up a tree and cook specific foods.
We don’t really have any Easter traditions - I used to love buying my kids winter pyjamas and slippers but they have all moved on from mummy's flannelette treats!
As I get older, I’m finding the things that give me pleasure are simpler. I like to watch birds. I watch the quality of light at the start and end of the day. I sing really loudly to a stupid song. Taking the time to do the things that make us glow and feel good inside is not a luxury, it is an essential part of living well.
Every morning my alarm goes. The wonders of my modern iPhone mean that I get to name my alarm. My morning alarm says ‘The world needs you’.
As soon as I see that I am propelled out of bed, it’s the perfect reminder. I think that we are all here for a reason. I believe that the world needs each of us or quite simply we would not be here.
Og Mandino is one of my favourite authors. At the back of his little book “The Greatest Miracle in the World” is the ‘God Memorandum’.
It speaks to me of 8 of my favourite values.
Feeling worthy is a huge human challenge. I have never met anyone who has not been met by ‘a wall of worthlessness’ at some point in their lives.
Some people have a bigger struggle than others. The definition of self-worth is ‘a sense of one’s own value as a human being.’ It has the word ‘self’ in it which means that no one else can fix this for you. Self-worth, self-love, self esteem are all solo endeavours. It's about building a relationship with yourself and seeing yourself for who you are rather than who you have been told you are.
One of the meanings of the word ‘over’ means being in excess.
I have been ‘in excess’ my whole life!
I am over-responsible, I overeat, overtalk, overspend, overcompensate, overdeliver and overdo most things!
And I refuse to make myself wrong for any of it.
The disease of resentment is alive and well in so many people that I meet. They are resentful that their friends' lives turned out better than theirs, that they aren't as thin or rich or successful as they had planned! Resentment can deplete your emotional energy.
Iris Apfel was one of my 'big elephants'.
A big elephant is what I call the people that you follow. When a baby elephant is born, it spends 12 years following and learning from the big elephants in its herd. From them, the little elephant learns everything that it needs to know to be an awesome elephant. At the age of 12, the elephant leaves and starts its own herd.
I don’t know about you but I have felt behind all of this year. Like I have been several steps behind where I want to be or what I want to do. So I have a plan!
Let’s cancel March. Let’s catch up!
If we put a line through March then we have four weeks to get ready for April. Take that April fool!!!