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SPEAK presents award-winning author and journalist Mónica Guzmán, virtually hosted by Live Oak School at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, February 4th, 2026.
Join SPEAK for a talk with Mónica Guzmán, bridge builder, journalist, and author who lives for great conversations sparked by curious questions. We’ll explore how approaching tough conversations with curiosity can build connections and bring families closer together.
Mónica’s best-selling book, “I Never Thought of it That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times,” has been featured in The New York Times, The Glenn Beck Podcast, and Reader's Digest, and was named one of the 10 best books to read before college by U.S. News. Mónica is founder and CEO of Reclaim Curiosity, where she works to build a world that sees itself, and advisor for Braver Angels, the nation’s largest cross-partisan grassroots organization working to depolarize America. She serves on the Board of Directors for the The Viewpoints Project, a nonprofit dedicated to improving capacity for curious approaches to disagreement in educational settings, and is host of “A Braver Way”, a podcast that in the run-up to the 2025 election equipped people with the tools they need to bridge the political divide in their everyday lives.
Mónica received an honorary doctorate degree from Wheaton College and completed study and research fellowships at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, where she researched how journalists can rethink their roles to better meet the needs of a participatory public, the Henry M. Jackson Foundation, where she studied social and political division, and the University of Florida, where she joined forces with researchers testing techniques to boost understanding across differences. A Mexican immigrant, Latina, and dual US/Mexico citizen, she lives in Seattle with her husband and two kids, plays a barbarian named Shadrack in her besties’ Dungeons & Dragons campaign, and is the proud liberal daughter of conservative parents.
Registration opens in January.
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.
We hope you can join us - Register Here.
