The Sweeney Agency

About Juliet Funt - Entertaining Speaker on Stress Management:

Juliet Funt blends a quarter century of performing experience with over a decade of building expertise in what makes people tick. Her mission is simple: to help people shift the way they think about daily pressures and responsibilities so they can prioritize their time, reach their goals, and be present and peaceful enough to live life to the fullest. She appears as a motivational keynote speaker for associations, women's groups, educators, financial professionals, corporate sales meetings, health care and real estate professionals, and other business groups throughout the U.S. and around the world, including the 2010 Million Dollar Roundtable. She offers entertaining keynotes on work/life balance and stress management.

Most of your conference audiences have the same complaint; Too much to do and too little time. The demands placed on them are weightier than ever. They attend your event hoping to learn skills to help them regain control, but are so overwhelmed with information, they sometimes leave more stressed than when they arrive. But now you can be the hero for your conference attendees. You can bring them the antidote to this Culture of Insatiability. Juliet Funt specializes in helping people deal with the pressures of everyday life. She makes them laugh. She helps them find a sense of accomplishment. She'll send them home with a powerful kit bag of useful tools and a warm, positive feeling about their work, their life, and your meeting.

As the daughter of Allen Funt, creator of the Candid Camera television show, Juliet has spent her life observing the hidden truths beneath our social selves. She won't hide a camera in your office but will bring her family tradition of hilarity and warmth to each and every one of your attendees.

From the moment Juliet takes the stage, your audience will be smiling as she lifts their heavy load of stress and gently serves up practical strategies for managing time, work, and life's overwhelming commitments. She lights up the platform with a true wordsmith’s love for the poetry of a well-turned phrase. She then backs up her engaging words and rich stories with thought-provoking content that has made her a nationally recognized expert in coping with the pace and pressure of our busy lives. Her uproarious stories and easily applicable points will energize and enlighten you and your audience. Her show biz genes are amplified by years performing improvisational comedy on the professional stage and many, many hours on the platform challenging her audiences to think deeper, laugh harder, and change their lives more profoundly.

Since launching her entertainment career at the tender age of two with her proud father, Juliet has thrilled audiences on national TV, news, and radio shows. She draws from her experience working as a meeting planner, human resources trainer for the Los Angeles Police Department, and a liaison for a Palestinian/ Israeli peace project. Juliet is a member of the National Speakers Association and has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, Shape, L.A. Parent, and Professional Speaker Magazine. She's also written a weekly web column and co-authored two books, The Communication Path and The Wellness Path.

What Juliet Funt Talks About:

Overcommitted, Overwhelmed and Over It!: Success Skills for the Blisteringly Busy
Is your to-do list a novel? Is your email inbox jam-packed every morning? Do you find yourself wishing for a fire drill just so you can step away from your desk for 10 minutes?

Don't worry. You are not alone. Life is getting busier and more demanding for everyone these days. In fact, the #1 business lifestyle complaint in the world today is having too much to do with too little time. And those time-management books aren't much help because they just give you ways to juggle all the work causing the stress. They don't say much about how to actually reduce the stress itself.

What would you give to feel relaxed and light-hearted as you face the challenge of this taxing atmosphere where the pressure never stops increasing? Get ready to smile, because Juliet Funt is about to take you on a fast-paced, story packed, hilarious ride to right where the answers lie. Enjoy stories of how real people have rediscovered the excitement of tackling the challenges of work and savoring those precious moments with family and friends. Laugh at the absurdities of the business world and how it drives some people bonkers. Learn the simple but powerful strategies that enable you to manage your in-box, juggle a dozen projects, and shift your point of view from panic to acceptance and from acceptance to fulfillment.

If your CFO isn't convinced, remind him that American companies spend $150 billion every year just on stress-related disability. That's not counting the wasted time from tension, the lost productivity from low morale, and the costs of higher employee turnover.

Juliet will help you change the way you think about your goals so you can prioritize the smart way, be more productive, and clarify what's really important. You'll discover...

• How to define real success in the relentless Age of Never Enough.
• Commonsense ways to cope with the pace and quantity of your daily tasks.
• The secret for keeping White Space on your calendar -- it's not a myth!
• Plus, lots and lots of laughter to lift your mood TODAY!

This funny, inspiring, and energetic program is a great way to kick off or close your conference with a perfectly balanced combination of feel-good fun and instantly applicable tools.

The Magic is in Your Mouth:(Overcommitted, Overwhelmed and Over It!: Part Two)
As a follow-up to addressing the stress and overwhelm in your environment, why not focus in on improving communication? A poor communication environment piles on more stress than almost any other single factor. Consider this:

Are you being starved? Maybe: because clarity, directness and useful feedback are hard to find these days. Are you being poisoned? Maybe: because gossip, over-promising, and gender based misunderstandings are just a few of the verbal habits that slip by even the finest communicators and drain the pocketbooks of all companies. Luckily, The Magic is in Your Mouth. This morale boosting session of humor and stories will keep them entertained but is also laced with practical and innovative ideas to make the most of every word you choose.