Identifying your fears and learning to overcome them
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Authors, dreamers, and inspirational speakers sharing their journey through the Caribbean keys to successful change
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“Define what matters most to you, push past fears and excuses, and ask yourself, what could go right?”- Speaker Erik Orton.
“We believe you could customize a more confident, creative life centered around what matters most to you” – Speaker Emily Orton.
With charm, humor, and insight, speakers Erik and Emily Orton inspire audiences to live and work deliberately, dream with discipline, and do what matters most in life. The New York Times named their book, Seven at Sea: Why a New York City Family Cast Off Convention for a Life-Changing Year on a Sailboat, the top travel read in its 2019 Summer Book Review.
These delightful keynote speakers share the wisdom gained as they went from “broke” rookies to bootstrapping sailors, sailing for a year with their five children from the Caribbean back to Manhattan. They teach and inspire others to overcome fear, tackle the unconventional, creatively solve problems, navigate change, and align decisions with authentic convictions. They believe life does not have to be lived by default, swept along by the currents of consensus, but that each person’s work and life can be a custom fit, tailored to their actual values.
Erik is an Emmy Award-winning writer and theatre producer. Emily is a public school teacher turned homeschool mom and writer. Erik and Emily continue to travel the world with their children. In 2019 they completed a five-month trip across Europe via sailboat and VW van and also spent five months in the Pacific (Hawaii and New Zealand).
This dynamic duo will share their stories and insight on how to live your life on your terms.
See keynotes with Erik & Emily OrtonLiving on a sailboat and traveling the world via planes, vans, boats,
speakers Erik & Emily have gained three kinds of confidence in which they conclude inspire audience members.
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Balancing parenting and work life is a constant challenge. As authors
and speakers who spend a lot of me together in close proximity to each other and our children, we understand this grand opportunity for friction.
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Our imagination works in two directions. We use it to think of all
the things that could go wrong: worry. We can use it to think about all things that could go right: wonder.
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Basic tips on how to navigate the early days and weeks homeschooling. We’ve home schooled our five children in NYC since 2007.
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It can seem impossible to be a responsible parent, provider and partner and still live your dreams. Erik and Emily bootstrapped themselves from broke beginners to living on a sailboat for a year in the Caribbean with their five children, and continue exploring the globe through adventures in travel, business and learning.
In their keynote, they share:
Many people are not as happy as they want to be. They are swept along by the tide of other people’s priorities. Erik and Emily battled these currents in their professional, home and personal lives. Through learning to cast off convention and sail for a year with their five children, they discovered a path that has lead them to a life of world travel, family unity, personal fulfillment, financial prosperity and greater purpose.
In this keynote they share:
Responsible people and organizations spend precious time and resources answering the question: What’s the worst that could happen? But what if we also asked, What could go right? Erik and Emily have spent the past five years leaning into the serendipity of this question and discovered the surprising results.
In this keynote, they share:
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