“I had the pleasure of meeting Sil Lai Abrams in Detroit, Michigan where she served as the keynote speaker for the Sister Speak (TM) luncheon series sponsored by Ebony and Pine-Sol…Sil Lai is a powerful keynote speaker and an inspirational force for individual improvement, inspiring, guiding and enabling individuals to become a better version of themselves.”
– Aniefre Essien, Associate Marketing Manager, Pine-Sol
“Your impactful presentation on the Self Empowerment Principles In Action (SEPIA)Process was very inspirational and addressed many of the issues that our students face in their personal lives.”
– Tonya Guillory, Dean of Student Life & Activities, Howard University
KEYNOTES
The following topics are available as keynotes:
Motivation
Stop Surviving & Start Living: Nine Simple Steps to Transforming Your Life
No More Drama author Sil Lai Abrams' life can be described in one word: miraculous. Born into poverty, she was addicted to alcohol by 14 and a runaway and high-school dropout by 15. While in her early twenties she embarked upon an exciting career in modeling, only to lose everything to her addiction to alcohol and dysfunctional relationships. Determined to change her life, Sil Lai quit drinking and eventually built an event planning business that counted A-list celebrities as her clients. Although talented and ambitious, she still sank into an unexpected depression fueled by materialism, a breakup, mounting debt and spiritual bankruptcy.
Today Sil Lai is a dynamic entrepreneur, author, magazine columnist and empowerment specialist. In this powerful presentation of hope she blends real life experiences with the practical spirituality of the SEPIA Process to inspire you to stop surviving from crisis to crisis and start living an authentic and inspired life!
Relationships
An Ounce of Prevention: Nine Steps to Cultivating Self-Love
There are millions who desire to be in a healthy, loving partnership but somehow keep ending up in relationships with the wrong person. If you have a pattern of getting involved with inappropriate or unavailable partners, it's time to stop focusing on what's going on with them and start focusing on what's going on inside of you. In this fun and engaging presentation, Sil Lai blends her personal relationship experiences with the nine-step SEPIA process to help you identify why you may be attracted to unhealthy relationships and how you can start developing fulfilling intimate partnerships. By sharing her past history of teen parenthood and domestic violence, Sil Lai brings to life the importance of self-love and how to identify an unhealthy relationship-before you get involved.
Career Development
From Passion to Reality: Nine Steps to Achieving Your Entrepreneurial Dreams
What is it that you are aiming for in your professional life? Is it fame and notoriety? A big paycheck? Or is it creative and financial freedom? Many of us have secret professional dreams that we don't know how to make a reality. Maybe we are afraid to leave the security of a present job for the possible reward of entrepreneurship because of a fear of failure. Or maybe we don't know how to raise the capital needed to make our business dreams come true. In this personal and inspiring keynote, Sil Lai shares how she was able become a dynamic entrepreneur, author, magazine columnist and workshop facilitator in spite of a paralyzing fear of failure, insecurity over her 9th grade education and lack of financial capital. With wit and candor, Sil Lai explains how you too can attain your professional goals through the use of the nine-step SEPIA Process.
College Students
To Be Young, Gifted and Empowered: Helping Young Adults Discover Their Authentic Selves
In her general motivational speech for all college audiences, Sil Lai shares the SEPIA process, a simple method of self-inquiry that will empower you to transform your life one step at a time. Sil Lai shares the stories, tears and laughter that she has discovered in her search for answers to life’s challenges. She helps young people discover paths that lead to lives with more contentment, balance, and direction. This program touches on many of the most critical issues facing today’s young people: achievement, dating and relationships, careers and spirituality. Most of all, Sil Lai helps young people understand the importance of living with integrity. With practical tips for personal success, Sil Lai motivates students to try harder, aim higher, and create a better reality.
Domestic Violence
Stripping Off the Mask: Domestic Violence Awareness & Prevention
While in her early twenties, Sil Lai endured physical, verbal, emotional and financial abuse at the hands of her second child’s father. She is not alone. Nearly one-third of American women report having been physically or sexually abused by a husband or boyfriend at some point in their lives. The effects of these acts have far reaching consequences in our families and communities, with health-related costs exceeding $5.8 billion each year, with nearly $1.8 billion of that amount going towards lost productivity or wages. During this moving presentation, Sil Lai discusses the signs of domestic violence and how you can help protect your company and employees by increasing awareness and taking action.
Suicide Prevention
What You Don’t Know May Kill Them: How Asking the Right Questions Can Prevent Suicide
Suicide is the 11th leading cause of death in the United States, with over 31,000 people dying annually from this preventable form of death. Primary care physicians (PCPs) are often the only caregivers to treat those suffering from depression or other mental health issues. Forty one percent of all prescriptions written for antidepressants are written by primary care physicians (Pincus et al., 1998).
Sil Lai was one of those who sought treatment for her mental health issues from her PCP, with catastrophic results. In this thought provoking presentation, Sil Lai shares her experience with attempting and surviving suicide to illustrate the importance of knowing your patient’s history before prescribing psychotropic medication.
WORKSHOPS
The following topics are available as workshops:
An Introduction to the SEPIA Process
This three-hour educational and motivational workshop will introduce attendees to the first three steps of the nine-step SEPIA process. Attendees will explore the principles of Truth, Acceptance and Action in a lecture and exercise driven presentation that will give them the basic tools needed to start the process of change in their life.
Self Empowerment Principles In Action
This four-part series of three-hour workshops will familiarize attendees with each of the nine SEPIA principles. In this fun and interactive series, attendees will learn the nine steps they can use to improve the overall quality of their life. In addition, attendees will select one issue they would like to change and through various experiential activities, use the SEPIA process to achieve their goals. |
