Angela has a very personal, inspired, and profound message to share with the world. The secret to transforming your life is becoming safe enough to receive success.
Hi, I am Angela.
If you’re looking for a transformational speaker on the topics of overcoming adversity, creative innovation, and self-leadership, you have found her.
My message is deeply intimate. I use humor as a tool to capture the insanity of survival states and highlight “the terror of success” that is not often spoken of. There is a reason we stay small, hidden, shut down, and mired in avoidance. It often serves as a protective shield to keep us safe. But does it really keep us safe?
In my young adult life, winning Star Search and starring in TV movies almost killed me, driving multiple forms of addiction and debilitating depression. It wasn’t just the “bad stuff,” but not knowing how to receive the “good stuff” that drove me into despair.
I mastered skills to help my terrified body handle more – more longing, visibility, risk, love, stress, and joy. Along the way, I engineered a 3-Step Method to “untangle” anything and everything standing in the way of receiving greater success. I’ve relied on these skills to improve my mental health, cope with divorce, earn money, and recover from trauma to receive a successful life.
For the last twenty years, I have used evidence-based strategies to empower disenfranchised addicts, CEO's, professional athletes, and stay-at-home parents to emerge from hiding and embark on successful living. Untangling builds creative resilience to realize your best life, even if there is a part of you that says, “No you can’t,” “You don’t deserve that,” or “If you ask for more, something bad will happen.”
My speaking engagements and workshops take people through the exhilarating untangling process to help them become safe enough to receive miraculous results. Whether you’re trying to motivate sales consultants in a boardroom, double your income, build a wellness program, or develop leadership skills, I am there for you. I will not only inspire change within the person, but I will teach everyone and prove everything with science.
Angela McKinney teaches and speaks internationally about the ways that our responses transform the brain, and how we can activate our learning brain to get unstuck and grow meaningfully. Angela distills complex neuroscience concepts into easy-to understand application to build real life stories of change and engaging dialogues. Audience members leave Angela’s presentations with more wisdom and self-compassion, often making sense of their problem for the first time. Angela has presented in businesses, functional forums, non-profits, international retreat centers, summits, and conferences. She is available for keynote speeches, workshops, podcasts, webinars, in-person and on-line trainings.
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In a post-pandemic shortage of mental health professionals, Angela provides holistic tools that support us every day.
Many wait until disaster strikes to address problems -- until a nagging annoyance evolves into a full-blown crisis. Angela helps identify our “invisible crisis states” and unpack them in a safe and approachable way.
The current political landscape mirrors unresolved trauma, and Angela’s framework provides a blueprint on how groups can unwind polarization and strengthen the middle ground to support unity.
Shame is at the root of many of our challenges: debt and under-earning, depression and suicide, family estrangement and divorce, eating disorders, and addiction. “Untangling” our fragility opens the door to resilience.
Angela destigmatizes mental health issues by sharing her personal story of overcoming sexual abuse and how that impacted her ability to perform as a gymnast, dancer, and actor. She provides the tools for survivors to face their trauma and claim their lives.