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SPEAK presents award-winning author and journalist Jennifer Wallace at San Francisco Day School at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, October 15, 2025.
Join SPEAK for a talk from award-winning author and journalist Jennifer Wallace, whose latest book, Never Enough: When Achievement Pressure Becomes Toxic - and What We Can Do About It, is a parental guide to help kids know that they matter.
Jennifer Wallace took a hard look at the rising rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide that we are facing today. She concluded that mattering is shockingly absent from our society - from individual households, schools, workplaces, and entire communities.
She broke open the floodgates with her Wall Street Journal article, “The Power of Mattering” at Work. With the Great Resignation on one hand and the rise in mental health challenges on the other, Wallace’s insights have endeared her to many. The incessant and relentless desire to matter drives individuals into spiraling cycles to prove they are “enough” while thirsting for achievement and approval.
Consequently, Wallace co-founded the Mattering Movement with a tangible sense of urgency. The goal of the Mattering Movement is to help people of all ages to learn the skills and tools to enact meaningful social change by identifying genuine needs, big or small.
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Live Happier: Understanding and Cultivating the Power of Self-Compassion
On March 22, 2022, from 7:00pm-8:15pm, SPEAK will host acclaimed psychologist, author, and speaker Dr. Kristin Neff as she explains how and why acts of self-compassion correlate with strength, resilience and motivation. Dr. Neff has authored the books: Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself and Fierce Self-Compassion: How Women Can Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Their Power and Thrive. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and Harvard Business Review, among others, and her TEDx talk has been viewed over 1.7 million times. To pre-order any of her books, specially signed for SPEAK audience members, please click here. Signed copies are limited to the first 100 books reserved on a first-come, first-served basis.
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