VANtalks 2025

The Ultimate Retirement Escape Plan: A Revolutionary Retirement Blueprint to Travel the Globe, Crush Debt, and Safeguard Your Golden Years

What would it take for your deepest wounds and ingrained survival patterns - your inner "mess" - to show up at a meeting, on a date, or in your parenting? How much sorrow or chaos could you bear before the other parts of you start to fade or shrink? Delena will share how her own devastating pain, messy resilience, and deviant compassion collide in the middle of passion and purpose, how cringe-worthy extra-ness makes room for healing and wisdom - and how relationships change everything.

Whether it’s changing diapers or closing deals, the light you have to offer the world may surprise you. Hear the story of how one diaper-slinging mom set out to make a difference at one child welfare office, and how her light of Mothering leant itself to illuminate the darkened world of child welfare. Be inspired to find the one thing about YOU that cannot and should not be hidden. The world NEEDS the light that only you can offer.

Utilizing the experiences of the past to get uncomfortably safe for the future. Why doing this in workplace not only helps us achieve better success at work, but translates to better success in the rest of life. Why therapy is one of many tools that helps us discover who we really are and what we can really achieve in life.

It took years to break my mindset bondage. We must move from our past experiences that cripple our confidence, to allow those adverse challenges to catapult our actions and engage in the process of change.

It’s critical we not only achieve a clean energy future, but one that is reliable and affordable. The path is narrow. Here’s how to do it in a smart way.

A man’s search for significance through the modern social ideology leads him down a road of pain and destruction. In times of him being broken down to where he believes he is nothing, convinced that he has no value, he then finds what he was truly looking for, Himself.

Multiple Sclerosis brought her to the door of change. What she didn’t expect was that there was a choice to be made. Beyond change was the invitation into transformation.

COVID came with many unexpected surprises for me to unpack, but I wasn’t in the mood for that. I wanted my life back. After the initial shock, the added time and space allowed me to re-examine my priorities. I now have a sense of clarity in a way I never experienced before.

Life is filled with both good and challenging moments, that dependent on how you respond and who you surround yourself with, can help to empower you to be your best.

How can we use counternarratives to reject various forms of rejection which infiltrate our souls daily distracting us from gifting the world with what we were created to leave on this.

Rejection, self-doubt, and comparison almost stole the life I was meant to be living...and how one question can stop it from stealing yours.

Esther Short Park, the heart of Vancouver, has witnessed over a century and a half of history. It provides a perfect lens to examine story, place, and ourselves as a…

After a suicide attempt at age 16, I lost my sight. Using my humor and my other senses, I learned how to navigate the world in a new way.

In his career as a reporter, writer and story teller, Steve Becker recorded and presented profiles of hundreds of people. Two of those stories in particular forced him to reexamine.

May 10 , 2018 I awoke at Peace Health Medical Center, having suffered a near fatal stroke losing close to 400 million brain cells. Learn how Nueroplasticity and Nuerogenesis helped.

You don a headset and enter a Virtual Reality environment to play a game. The system tracks your body––your head wearing the headset and your hands manipulating the controllers––as you

It was the first day I’d ever been skiing and I was laying on the snow struggling to get back up. I was tired because all I did all day

I remember the day I yelled at my children. It was a hot day I was pulling two huge loads of laundry with my two youngest children sitting on top

In certain times, the world can seem like a dark place, divided by war, hate, and isolation. In these moments, we can make one of two choices; shake our heads

A story about togetherness, bursting hearts, and the hidden secrets of caterpillars.

Using the length of a video as a case study, this commercial filmmaker will share what he has learned about conveying powerful ideas, professionally and personally.

It is easy to fall into despair after watching people flee for their lives and children washing onto shores, the Syrian refugees’ crisis is the largest since World War II,

In a world where technology might seem to be everywhere, Bill Huseby believes it’s still all about people. Alongside hi-tech equipment, machinery, and computers are the most important asset of an

What's keeping you from moving forward, achieving success and living a happy, fulfilled life? We'll discuss our greatest fears, our deepest desires and look at how our beliefs create our