Keynote speaking
Life changes everything.
Her story looks at what comes next.
Resilience, identity, faith, grief, and healing. A message grounded in lived experience.
Keynote topics
Each keynote is drawn from Kristin's lived experience and shaped for the room in front of her.
Kristin shares her experience navigating a life-altering event, redefining expectations, and finding a way forward when life takes an unexpected turn. Her message explores resilience, adapting to change, and discovering new possibilities after adversity.
Drawing from her experience after a brainstem stroke, Kristin explores how profound life changes can reshape identity, challenge expectations, and transform our understanding of success and what it means to live a meaningful life.
Kristin shares perspectives from her journey through loss, faith, and personal transformation, exploring the complex process of healing and finding meaning after profound adversity.
Audiences and events
Organizers looking for a speaker who is honest about hardship without leaving the room in despair.
The person behind the message
Author and keynote speaker. Her story includes a massive brainstem stroke at 22, graduate education, loss, love, and faith.
Kristin Tracy Porter is the author of After the Shatter: Reshaping the Face of Healing, a memoir about resilience, identity, faith, and rebuilding a life after profound adversity.
At 22, Kristin survived a massive brainstem stroke that left her relearning how to walk and talk. Her journey forward included graduate education, navigating disability and grief, and discovering a deeper understanding of faith and healing.
Through her story, Kristin invites audiences to consider what happens when life takes an unexpected turn, how our understanding of success can change, and what it means to build a meaningful life when the future looks different than imagined.
Her message is grounded in lived experience and explores the deeply personal process of finding a way forward after life changes everything.
Resources for event planners
Download Kristin's materials for your program, website, and introduction.
Biography, keynote topics, and booking information in one page.
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Short, medium, and long versions for programs, websites, and introductions.
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The three speaking topics and their descriptions in one document.
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An introduction for your event host.
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Photograph available for event organizers.
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A video of Kristin speaking will be added here when it's available.
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