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Hi, I am Missy

Hall of Fame Athlete | Authentic | Inspiring

Your team’s success depends on the stability and emotional stamina of each individual member. Leaders and high-achievers are often plagued by self-doubt and intrusive thoughts that make us believe we don’t have what it takes. My mission is to help your team crush that inner critic and learn how to overcome obstacles to individual and group success. 

Here's why I'm the right keynote speaker for you

7 Hall of Fame Inductions, 3x Conference Coach of the Year winner, and 12 years of collegiate coaching at the Division III and II level…plus a rare autoimmune disease. I know how the pains of defeat and the inner critic can hold us back from achieving our goals.

If you’re an executive, conference/association event planner, school administrator, athletic director, or coach seeking ways to support your community and teams and set them up for success, you’re on the right track. My talks are customized to your audience and designed to be engaging, memorable, and fun.

I’ll share my first-hand experience with failure, adversity, injury, and serious health struggles that have led me down a path to inspire, uplift and motivate people of all ages and walks of life.

My story appeals to high-achievers

We are our own harshest critics. And if we want to go further, we have to overcome the negative voice that says “I can’t.”

As a collegiate coach, I led my teams to victories and helped them fight against the mental mindsets that threatened to hold them back. But first, I faced those mental mindsets myself as I received a full athletic scholarship to play basketball at Duke University. I even slayed my inner critic during my professional basketball career where I played 3 years in Germany winning a German Championship both as a player & as a U12 youth team coach. Then, in 2018, a diagnosis changed my life and I had to learn how to overcome new challenges to achieve my goals.

“I am the storm.”
Remember:

"When you are BRAVE enough to ask for help, please know, EVERYTHING is RIGHT with you."

RESILIENCE TEAM

RESILIENCE TEAM

Leaders are not born - they’re made, with the love and support of their friends and family. My resilience team keeps me going strong.

I live in Tampa, FL with my wife Colleen Healy, and our best friend, Oscar.

My biggest cheerleader and my forever coach, Mom & Dad.

My brothers, who were the first to teach me about resilience.

My friends, who are constantly pushing me out of my comfort zone, encouraging me to take risks, and making sure I laugh and smile while doing it all.

  • Robert Faulkens | Assistant Commissioner at IHSAA

    “Missy is as impactful a presenter for scholastic athletes as I have seen in my 30-plus years as an educator. Her ability to engage, inspire, challenge, and empathize with a diverse audience is unparalleled. A large portion of the attendees can see themselves in her. It is not often that a presenter can hold the rapt attention of high school students for an entire 60-minute presentation. Missy did so thrice in the same day.”

  • Sam Farsky | Student, NYSPHSAA Student Leadership Summit

    "Finally a speaker that made me feel like she was talking straight to me and I wasn't by myself with these issues. She left me excited to take her methods of dealing with my inner critic and shift my thinking into something positive. I can't wait to share this information with my team!