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Stories that open minds, awaken possibility and bring a room to life.

 
 

Deirdre is a natural storyteller.

Warm, engaging and quick to find both the humanity and humour in a situation, she brings the ideas at the heart of Emerald Being to audiences through story, insight and lived experience.

With a lifetime in film and television production behind her, Deirdre understands audiences — how to hold attention, create connection and make an idea live beyond the moment in which it is heard.

She speaks about awakening and conscious living, but also about self-trust, courage, self-belief, reinvention and what becomes possible when we stop assuming that the person we have been is the only person we can become.

Sometimes one idea, heard at exactly the right moment, changes the direction of a life.

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Ideas that move people - and stay with them.

 

Drawing on her life as a producer, writer and mentor, Deirdre brings story, emotional truth and practical understanding to the stage. Warm, lively and deeply engaging, she illuminates the inner forces shaping the way we think, respond, lead and live.

She speaks with warmth, intelligence and humour, creating an atmosphere in which audiences feel recognised rather than lectured. That recognition opens the door to a different way of seeing and often to a different conversation long after the event has ended.

What Audiences Take Away

Deirdre makes conscious living clear, relevant and usable. Audiences leave with a stronger understanding of how thought gathers momentum, how emotion becomes reaction, how conditioning influences choice and how awareness creates the space to respond differently.

They leave with language they can remember, ideas they can use and a renewed sense of their own capacity to shape what happens next.

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Keynote Talks

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At the Heart of Conscious Living

A compelling exploration of the inner world that shapes how we think, feel, choose and lead. Through the practical rhythm of Catch. Choose. Create., Deirdre shows how awareness can interrupt automatic patterns, steady emotion and return us to choice.

02

Awaken to the Beauty Within

An uplifting and deeply human keynote about remembering the wisdom, possibility and quiet inner power already within us - and allowing that recognition to change the way we meet ourselves, our work and our lives.

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Speaking For

 

Suitable for women's conferences, leadership events, creative and cultural organisations, educational settings, wellbeing gatherings, podcasts, panel and other thoughtful public conversations.

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