Vauna Byrd
Keynote Concerts
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Edutainer: Not your average speaker. Someone who entertains your audience while educating, uplifting, and empowering your audience
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Vauna is passionate about helping others remember that life is meant to be full of joy and purpose, with relationships that uplift and strengthen us.
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Vauna speaks...and sings...from the heart, combining storytelling with singing live music to reinforce key concepts. She will leave you feeling inspired and motivated for more.
More joy. More peace. More of who you are.
To do more...to be more...to have more.
To live life to its fullest.
To do more...to be more...to have more.
To live life to its fullest.
Some of Vauna's favorite topics:
Personal Well-Being (AKA Mental Health)
Changing our thinking patterns helps us go from soothing (or running from) our hurts to healing our hearts.
There was a time I thought that dying would be easier than living. I had to learn how to find the good amidst my pain, how to develop healthy thought processes, what effective self care is and how it could help me learn to love myself and treat myself like I matter by taking care of my needs and setting healthy boundaries.
These things improve all of our relationships:
Family, Friends, at School, at Work, & most importantly -- with ourselves.
There was a time I thought that dying would be easier than living. I had to learn how to find the good amidst my pain, how to develop healthy thought processes, what effective self care is and how it could help me learn to love myself and treat myself like I matter by taking care of my needs and setting healthy boundaries.
These things improve all of our relationships:
Family, Friends, at School, at Work, & most importantly -- with ourselves.
Self Care for Parents & Caregivers
How your relationships will thrive when you start proactively taking care of your own needs.
How easy is it to put ourselves last? We can be overwhelmed and exhausted from taking care of everyone but ourselves, or trying to be who our loved ones want us to be.
I struggled to serve from an empty cup for years before I discovered that I can better meet my responsibilities and care for my loved ones if I replenish myself first.
I share actionable tools on making Self Care effective, to elevate our personal well-being AND make our family relationships more joyful and rewarding.
How easy is it to put ourselves last? We can be overwhelmed and exhausted from taking care of everyone but ourselves, or trying to be who our loved ones want us to be.
I struggled to serve from an empty cup for years before I discovered that I can better meet my responsibilities and care for my loved ones if I replenish myself first.
I share actionable tools on making Self Care effective, to elevate our personal well-being AND make our family relationships more joyful and rewarding.
Relationship Trauma, Forgiveness, and Trust
When I found out about infidelity in my marriage, I was faced with a never ending stream of hard decisions I had to make.
•Do I get divorced? Is staying married even a possibility?
•If I stay married am I dooming myself to a life of repeated betrayal?
•Are the changes I see in my husband permanent?
•Am I willing to grow from this or will I stay hurt and angry from it?
•Could I forgive him? Is it even possible to not have this as a wall between us forever?
•What is best for my kids?
I discuss how to find the answers to these questions, not in terms of what worked for me, but how to know what is best for any person who's faced with these questions.
•Do I get divorced? Is staying married even a possibility?
•If I stay married am I dooming myself to a life of repeated betrayal?
•Are the changes I see in my husband permanent?
•Am I willing to grow from this or will I stay hurt and angry from it?
•Could I forgive him? Is it even possible to not have this as a wall between us forever?
•What is best for my kids?
I discuss how to find the answers to these questions, not in terms of what worked for me, but how to know what is best for any person who's faced with these questions.
Vauna openly shares her experiences of trauma & healing, of suffering & finding peace, of learning to love herself when she felt most alone, of realizing life is meant to be joyful regardless of circumstances.
She shares real tools that are easy to implement now to bring more joy, peace, and love into our lives and relationships.
Vauna integrates music into her presentation, heartfelt songs she sings that will bring home the message in an emotional experience for all involved.
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About Vauna Byrd
I became a mother at the age of 16, married my daughter's father, and was getting divorced by the time I graduated from Columbine High School in 1993.
I spent the next 8 1/2 years as a single mom until I married my husband at age 26. We suddenly started learning how difficult a blended family can be -- with my daughter and his 3 girls...and 2 exes.
Less than 7 years later, I thought I was living my dream life until we suddenly separated, due to circumstances I'd been unaware of. We'd had 3 kids together, the youngest was only 3 months old.
I started preparing divorce papers when something spoke to my heart: "Wait..Let's see what he does with this".
I became a single mom again, with 4 kids this time. Meanwhile, my husband and I started learning how to rebuild ourselves and our relationship.
I began to recognize that even though I grew up in a happy, loving family, my husband did not. I started to glimpse of the effects that childhood trauma has on a person. And I noticed that the trauma my kids and I were going through was having an effect on us -- individually and as a family.
After a 3 year separation, my husband and I were able to fully reconcile. We had so much to navigate. We had to learn how to communicate, how to get vulnerable, to have compassion, to forgive, to let down walls.....and so much more.
Learning how to work through these things is what's made our marriage a success. We've both spent the last 15 years studying, reading, listening, getting trainings & certifications, but above all else -- a whole lot of trial and error -- being committed to figure it out.
To figure ourselves out individually and figure our marriage out together.
I spent the next 8 1/2 years as a single mom until I married my husband at age 26. We suddenly started learning how difficult a blended family can be -- with my daughter and his 3 girls...and 2 exes.
Less than 7 years later, I thought I was living my dream life until we suddenly separated, due to circumstances I'd been unaware of. We'd had 3 kids together, the youngest was only 3 months old.
I started preparing divorce papers when something spoke to my heart: "Wait..Let's see what he does with this".
I became a single mom again, with 4 kids this time. Meanwhile, my husband and I started learning how to rebuild ourselves and our relationship.
I began to recognize that even though I grew up in a happy, loving family, my husband did not. I started to glimpse of the effects that childhood trauma has on a person. And I noticed that the trauma my kids and I were going through was having an effect on us -- individually and as a family.
After a 3 year separation, my husband and I were able to fully reconcile. We had so much to navigate. We had to learn how to communicate, how to get vulnerable, to have compassion, to forgive, to let down walls.....and so much more.
Learning how to work through these things is what's made our marriage a success. We've both spent the last 15 years studying, reading, listening, getting trainings & certifications, but above all else -- a whole lot of trial and error -- being committed to figure it out.
To figure ourselves out individually and figure our marriage out together.