01
There Is Life After Loss
The keynote. One woman’s story of losing everything and the unglamorous, stubborn work of building a life again — told without tidy endings, and with room for the audience to breathe.
Hear Amanda out loud
Keynotes, workshops and conversations about grief, identity and the unglamorous work of beginning again — delivered without platitudes, and with room for a room to breathe.
Forty-five minutes on what actually happens after the worst thing — and why the audience leaves lighter than the subject suggests.
Signature Talks
Four ways in — pick the one your room needs
02
Grief, Out Loud
Why our discomfort with grief isolates the grieving, and what changes when workplaces, churches and families learn to stay in the room instead of looking for the exit.
03
Who Am I Now?
Identity after loss — for audiences of women rebuilding after widowhood, divorce, an empty nest, or the end of a career they thought was permanent.
04
How to Hold Someone’s Hardest Year
A practical session for caregivers, HR teams, chaplains and friends. What actually helps, what to stop saying, and how to show up past the first two weeks.
Formats
- Keynote (45–60 min)
- Fireside chat
- Half-day workshop
- Panel moderation
- Podcast guest
- Church & retreat weekends
- Corporate & HR sessions
- Virtual events
Recent Appearances
Stages, mics and pages
2026
On beginning again after everything changes
The Widow’s Hour · Podcast
2025
What we get wrong about grief at work
Begin Again Summit · Keynote
2025
Love, Grit & Grace hits the bestseller list
Hope Radio · Interview
2024
The year I stopped waiting to feel better
Grief, Out Loud · Essay
2024
Rebuilding an identity you did not choose
Still Here Collective · Panel
Our whole room went quiet. Then it exhaled. That is what she does.
— Event host, Begin Again Summit
Booking
Bring Amanda to your room.
Conferences, churches, retreats, hospice and grief organisations, HR and wellbeing programmes, book festivals and podcasts. Virtual and in person.
Send the date, the audience and what you're hoping they walk out with. Amanda reads every enquiry herself and replies within a week.
- Speaker one-sheet, bio and headshots supplied on booking
- Talks tailored to your audience after a short planning call
- A limited number of pro-bono dates each year for grief non-profits
Say thetrue thing out loud.
A room that talks honestly about loss is a room where fewer people grieve alone. That's the whole reason Amanda takes the stage.