Speaking
Do the thing that scares you.
Honest, funny, practical talks for everyday people. Sheila says out loud what everyone in the room is already thinking, then gives them something they can actually do about it.
Typically booked months in advance. Ask early.
- 30+ years
- as a nurse, from the bedside to the global health system
- Doctorate
- in Education
- Award-winning
- author of psychological fiction and urban fantasy
Healthcare · Free presentation
Ditch the Gown & Head for Town
What every adult over 55 should know before a hospital stay, and how to get yourself home faster.
You’re going to the hospital someday. There’s a chance you’ll get a contracture, where your joints stiffen up from lying in that bed, and you could get stuck there. Everybody 55 and over is scared of that.
After more than thirty years as a nurse, Sheila gives your group things they can do to get themselves out of that spot. You’ve got to learn them now.
The time to learn how to pull a car out of a ditch is not when the car is already in the ditch. It’s years before.
Your audience leaves with
- What a contracture is, and why it can keep you in the hospital
- Things you can do now to get yourself out of that spot
Comedy · Daytime stand-up
The Day Lilies
Stand-up comedy for the daytime crowd.
The Day Lilies is Sheila’s stand-up comedy, in the daytime. She says what everybody in the room is already thinking, out loud.
Keynote · Motivation
Put On Your Pants
Get up. Put on your pants. Walk into your life and be present for it.
Sheila is someone who once couldn’t write a simple essay, and is now an award-winning author with a doctorate. In Put On Your Pants, she talks about how you get from one to the other: you get up every morning, you put on your pants, and you walk into your life.
It’s a talk about doing the thing that scares you, because you don’t know what’s going to happen until you do. Lie on the back porch and nothing happens. Do the thing, and something will.
Your audience leaves with
- Get up and be part of your own life
- Do the thing that scares you, and keep doing it
- If people don’t like it, let them
Also on the program
Sheila also speaks to
Book clubs & libraries
Conversations about The Feral Butterfly, The Watershed Butterfly, and Doryto: the stories behind the stories.
Nursing & healthcare conferences
Global healthcare systems and what they mean for nurses at the bedside. Invited speaker at emergency care conferences.
Community & nonprofit groups
Food insecurity, keeping families and their pets together, and getting off the couch to help.
On the calendar
Where Sheila will be
1:30–3:30 PM
The Watershed Butterfly launch party
Edgar’s Bakery, Pelham, AL
Grab a snack and a special printed hardcover ($25) before they’re gone.
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Tell us about your group, your date, and what you’re hoping folks walk away with.