1. The Importance of Life Insurance
Motivating agents to continue promoting this life-saving gift and our personal gratitude for this business. Many people in this world drastically underestimate the value and power of life insurance. As a life insurance speaker and insurance keynote speaker in general I strongly encourage, motivate and promote to life insurance agents the future stability they provide to all their insurance clients and future life insurance clients. We have learned firsthand from our own adversity and dealing with our own loss that without the foresight from my husband Mark, our lives would not be nearly as secure as they are now. Life insurance is often overlooked by the consumer and my keynote speaking talks frankly to life insurance agents about the importance of their work, even when it may not be realized until years down the road. All life insurance agents need to understand the importance of their work and be motivated to move forward even when the client is sometimes distracted by today's issues. |
2. Education and Awareness of Red Light Running
One topic that is very near and dear to me in my keynote speaking career is the reality and danger of red light running. My keynote speaking addresses Civic Organizations, Drivers Ed Classes, speaking at Teen Seminars, company meetings, and even insurance companies about the danger of red light running. It's an issue that goes a bit unnoticed in today's world and as a keynote speaker and an insurance speaker I teach audiences how real red light running is and how red light running can cast tragedy on innocent people and their families. It is a large part of our (Madison and I) mission to educate communities, law makers and the insurance industry on the many resources that have become available to curb the increase of red light running and the damage that red light running can cause. |
3. The Mark Wandall Foundation - Community Awareness
What we do for the community, future projects, and sponsors
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4. True Internal Power Always Exists & Always is Victorious
Our keynote speaking also teaches one how to see beyond their own negativity and personal adversity and to not become their own nemesis. To take what life has handed them at this very moment and encourage them to trust that they hold the power to produce positive results in their own lives. Speaking about personal growth in the darkest of hours allows me to communicate the power and strength we all have when we are forced to deal with loss or deal with adversity. From my own experiences with red light running and the power of life insurance I can help my audience understand more about the internal power that is inside each of us. As a keynote speaker I motivate and encourage individuals to strive toward victory over the loss or adversity that is currently in their lives. |
5. You Don't Need to Fear Changes
To reiterate to others that life will never be the same after the death of a loved one, that "time does not heal all wounds," that you just simply learn how to manage the pain each day. Life will be different but if we approach it in a loving manner instead of getting "stuck" in our own grief and blaming everyone else for our "situation" our healing becomes much more manageable. |
6. You're Never As Alone As You Feel
To speak on the loss of a husband and best friend and to speak on the loss of a sister as a child. |
7. Turning Pain into a Gift
Educating and encouraging others how to give back in their own time of need. Many people can learn to understand how to use their own power in the most difficult times, to reach out and help others as they help themselves at the same time. Many of today's most successful people have reached their own goals by helping others when it was the most difficult. As a keynote speaker, I help my audience understand the true human value in encouraging and motivating others to cope with loss and deal with adversity. |
8. The Will of a Child
Melissa show's children that "they, too hold the power to achieve what they want in their lives , to help them realize that they do not "have to follow the crowd" - to make them realize that they are beautiful being themselves and to be true. Children learn to "own" who they are and never apologize either to themselves or anyone else for being who they are. |
9. Redefining a "WIDOW"
I am not easily impressed by titles. In our society today, so many people define who they are or are motivated by what they do or what title they hold in "life." As an example a President of a Bank has a title - they can either define the title or let the title define them? Just as a married couple can define who they are by simply having the title wife or husband- they may be what society wants them to be based on their titles.
I have never been a title "girl" myself. I represent myself. What I am, who I am I present daily to whomever I meet.. (Don't get me wrong); I loved being a wife, a mother, a daughter and a friend - but I do not get lost in being grouped together with everyone else. I am an individual and again the people that I come in contact will define me by Melissa Wandall not Melissa Wandall, Director of (?..).
When my beautiful husband lost his "physical life" I was suddenly "defined." I was a WIDOW. "Oh that poor young "WIDOW." Now, if I believed in titles I would become that poor thing that society would want me to be. But since I do not believe in titles I chose to be that lucky woman that was loved so deeply and so purely. That "woman" that was "left" with a love child that would remind her daily of the love that she shared with her husband; that "Woman" that was lucky enough to find love in her life-time that few people rarely find.
My hope is to redefine the term WIDOW. I could speak at length on this topic. When I see my name in print for one of my causes that I am working on I always see Melissa Wandall, Widow. And it makes me "shiver." I do not want others thinking that I am that "poor thing." So I have redefined the term "WIDOW" to make it work for my life and hopefully others out there that are searching for a positive definition of this "TITLE."
W = WISE
I = INDEPENDENT
D = DEVOTED
O = OPTIMISTIC
W = WOMAN
That is who I am and how I define myself. I will change this "term" for the positive because that is who I am.
It is dangerous when people become recognized by their title in life. We begin to think we stand for so much more or so much less than we really are by the society given title. We all need to get back to basics and stop feeling like we have to be who society wants us to be. We have to take back who we are, appreciate our God given talents and accept our "name sake." No one is going to judge you for being who you are. We are our own worst "nemesis." We have to break our own judgmental barrier and take back who we are inside. Lets write our own "story" in life and not let someone else "write" it for us.
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