Speaking – Audacious Freedom

Top Motivational Speaker

I believe the most powerful stories are the ones that remind us we’re human.

Drawing from nearly four decades in HR, and, a lifetime of navigating work, reinvention, loss, resilience, motherhood, and starting over, I bring humor, candor, and deeply human storytelling to conversations about how we live and work.

With every speaking engagement, I invite audiences to look at familiar ideas from a different angle, question what we’ve been taught to accept, and make more room for freedom, authenticity, generosity, curiosity, and fun, in both work and in life.

To get a feel for my storytelling style and perspective, listen to my podcast, Audacious Freedom.

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Dee Dee Mendez - Top Motivational Speaker

What I offer

For corporate and workplace events

Re-Imagining a Human-Centered Human Resources Profession

HR is broken and only getting worse
- The end-to-end employee experience is subjective and not transparent to the masses
- More and more of HR responsibilities are being outsourced and becoming automated
  In many organizations, HR exists to protect the employer
- HR acts as the “police” and serves the organization
- The total rewards gap between the C-suite and other employees is growing exponentially
The future of HR should be:
- Employee-centric and sensitive to the human impact and interpretation of the end-to-end employee experience
- Investing equally in all human beings where employees can show up and “do life”. Work, family— It’s all life and we are all human souls.
- Workforce planning, employee upskilling, internal mobility & humane exit strategies
- Part coaching and part tactical
  - Coaches who create strategic interventions to optimize talent development and employee wellness and productivity
  - Project managers who troubleshoot technology issues and handle employee relations issues
- Optimizing the potential for an inclusive hybrid work environment
  - Closing the gap on total rewards between the C-Suite and other employees

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Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace

Leaders in many organizations expect their employees simply to “fit in” rather than embracing diverse perspectives and experiences of human souls
- When employees don’t feel safe to share their ideas or to speak up, actual disasters can happen at worst and at the least there can be little learning and innovation
Practical steps can be taken to proactively create a culture that promotes learning, innovation and growth
- With a step-by-step framework, leaders can establish psychological safety within their teams and organization

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For individuals and groups

Upgrade Your Life with the Audacious Freedom Life 2.0 Toolkit™

#THE TRUTH/Secrets Out
- Get real about where you are & where you want to be
#Support
- Therapy (Tears & Talking™)
- Soul brothers & sisters
- Self-talk and physical & emotional wellness
- Physical space alignment with Feng Shui solutions
#Audacious Freedom Commitments
- Freedom: Do whatever the f**k you want
- Authenticity: Never be afraid to speak your truth
- Generosity: Give all the sh*ts & give to every soul
- Curiosity: Don’t be an a**hole. Nobody knows it all
- Fun: Don’t waste time on bullsh*t. Find the quickest route to a laugh, a friend or the bar!

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DIY-Parenting

An unconventional way to create a family
- With so many divorced parents co-raising children, I wonder what is broken with our conventional model of creating a family
Re-thinking parenthood and the “love, marriage and baby carriage” fairy tale
- Not everyone wants to experience parenthood. But if you want to become a parent, going it “alone” is actually quite practical and much easier than you think
Is it crazy or brave to DIY-parent?
- Building the case: it may just be more crazy or brave to co-parent with someone who has different ideas than you about how to raise children and to share a home with them. Just saying!

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If you’re looking for a motivational speaker about personal growth or an inspirational female speaker for your next event, contact me for more information.

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