Public Speaking

Wayne Coolidge M.Ed.

If you're seeking a dynamic and impactful health promotion experience, look no further than Wayne Coolidge M.Ed. to headline your next event. Wayne's unique speaking style seamlessly blends cutting-edge science with 42 years of real-world experience, all delivered with a touch of wit and just the right amount of humor. His engaging approach educates and encourages audiences to become Healthy, Fit, and Fearless.

Whether addressing intimate gatherings or commanding attention on big stages as a keynote speaker, Wayne captivates his audiences with his extensive knowledge. The expert integration of ancestral and cultural health principles enriches his massive library of health, fitness, and wellness topics. This diverse range ensures that there is something for everyone, making it easy to find a topic that aligns perfectly with your group's needs. His ability to connect with audiences on multiple levels makes him an ideal choice for any event focused on promoting health and wellness.

Photo Below: Wayne Prior to a presentation on Viking Culture

Wayne Prior to a discussion on Viking Culture

Wayne's complete but short (eight-minute) presentation on the Dynamics of fat loss

Speaker Bio. for Wayne Coolidge M.Ed.

Wayne was born in Proctorsville, Vermont, where his upbringing spurned his interest in subsistence-type living, folk medicine, and "ancestral health." He is a Health Promotion Scholar/Practitioner who speaks, writes, and consults on Chronic Disease Prevention, Fitness, and Nutrition. An additional area of expertise includes paleoanthropology as related to current human health status.

Wayne has pioneered the concept that "mimicking lifestyle characteristics of our ancient ancestors and other healthy cultures results in health-enhancing genetic expression, leading to healthy aging and ultimate wellness. His writing and speaking uniquely blend cutting-edge science, experience, and wit to educate and encourage others to attain ultimate wellness. Wayne is available for consultation, keynote speeches, lectures, and seminars in person or virtually. The photo on the right is where Wayne was raised.

Wayne Coolidge Health Promotion Presentations, Seminars, and Workshops

Topics are provided below and are offered in presentation, lecture, seminar, or workshop formats. They can be re-tooled or custom-designed to meet the health/wellness needs of your employees, group, or organization. Presentations to senior and non-profit groups are offered at a reduced cost or free of charge. To inquire about Wayne or Kim speaking at your event, contact us at [email protected]

Keynote - Release Your Inner Shield Maiden

Co-presented with my business partner Kim Rodes, Release Your Inner Shield Maiden is my favorite Healthy, Fit, and Fearless women's empowerment presentation of all time. Attendees will discover elite nutritional health, mindset, and fitness by mimicking the lifestyles of history's healthiest and most empowered women. This presentation details how present-day women will benefit from a Scandinavian-based lifestyle optimization program based on the lives of the female warrior Shield-maidens of Norse legend. You will take home time-honored and scientifically validated secrets to vibrant health, physical strength, and a powerful Shield-maiden mindset. You will use what you learn about Shield-maidens to make that happen.

Keynote - "Stone Ager's in the Fast Lane: 21st Century Wellness with a Paleolithic Twist"

Wayne's speaking uniquely blends cutting-edge science, experience, and wit to educate and encourage others in their quest for a Healthy, Dynamic Living Lifestyle. His current featured Keynote, "Stone Ager's in the Fast Lane: 21st Century Wellness with a Paleolithic Twist," is part compelling story, part cutting-edge health and wellness information, and part inspiration and motivation. Wayne's expertise is in lifestyle optimization, which is designed to control cellular aging, which initiates a body normalizing "genetic re-set." This is accomplished while keeping an eye on "big picture" wellness for his clients. These themes resonate clearly throughout his speaking. His warning to his audiences? Be careful; you may laugh AND learn something at the same time.

Keynote- Your Blueprint to Becoming Healthy, Fit, and Fearless

Dream It, Design It, build it, and live It! Kim and I will help your guests, clients, or employees conjure some of their wildest dreams and then place them on the path to realizing them. This is an enormously informative, high-energy lecture/presentation. "Healthy, Fit, and Fearless" is designed to empower those ready to change their health and life trajectory to create a more perfect version of themselves regardless of where they are in life. I will explain why and show you how to not "leave anything on the table" in your quest for personal excellence. This program is focused on health, fitness, and empowerment, but anyone with a desire for change, motivation, and a plan to get there will benefit. Attendees will leave this presentation exhilarated, motivated, primed, and prepared to forge a brand new you despite your age, current mental outlook, or physical abilities.

Paleo Perspectives on Aging, Fat Loss, Fitness, and Health

This presentation contains highlights of scientifically documented material from Wayne's book of the same name. It contains time-honored secrets for achieving a lifestyle that will result in healthy aging and ultimate wellness. "Healthier, stronger, longer" is a motto that adeptly describes Wayne's purpose of sharing the blueprint for a long, wellness-infused life. Our ancient ancestors' living, eating, movement, and toxicity avoidance patterns provided the genetically engineered map of how we are supposed to live. Wayne invites you to learn how you may incorporate these secrets into your own personal, as well as your family's health and wellness regimen.

Safe, Scientifically Validated, Long-Term Fat Loss is One Presentation Away

Few, if any, human endeavors have been met with as much failure as the attempt to healthfully and efficiently lose body fat long-term. Weight loss is an opportunistic industry flooded with products designed to create bottom-line profits rather than bottom-line results. Forty-two years of successful experience in the "fat loss" industry and thousands of hours of dedicated research on energy balance and weight control have prepared Wayne to guide your journey to lose Fat forever. Several practical examples of direct influences on the energy-balance equation and validated strategies designed to aid and support the fat-loss process nutritionally, physiologically, and emotionally are included. This presentation will provide a starting point from which you can initiate your customized program, enabling you to lose fat safely, effectively, and efficiently.

* Kim's photo, right shows fat loss and fitness progress after one year to the day.

The Big Lie: How Government, the Media, and the Food Industry is Making Us Sick

"The Big Lie" is a deep and disturbing portrayal of the quality, safety, and health concerns associated with the US food supply. "Deep-pocketed" special interests influence nearly all levels of government. In all its forms, media is used to deceive consumers and create a "food industry-friendly" public opinion. The USDA's laws have been manipulated to produce "agri-business" friendly loopholes, and food producers and agri-business conglomerates have no problem identifying and taking full advantage of those loopholes. How does a "trusted" gourmet grocery store sell fresh (never frozen) beef from Australia that endures a 62-day voyage on a ship and several days on a truck without it rotting before reaching the East Coast? This and many other horrifying facts about the food industry will be revealed. The presentation will include tips and techniques to enable health-conscious individuals to safely survive food industry failings.

Fitness For Life: Tips to Fast-Track Your Fitness Goals

The world in which ancient hunter/gatherers grew up was a veritable jungle gym of fitness opportunities. Our Paleolithic ancestors didn't have to do aerobics or Pilates. Their hearts, lungs, and muscles were strong and dynamic from the rigors of living and surviving in a challenging environment. Our ancestors were healthier and fitter than us by far. In modern times, increasing physical activity and exercise is a must. This presentation leads the participant through the why and how of fitness, including full descriptions of exercise options such as aerobic exercise, resistance (weight) training, and functional/high-intensity interval training. Components of fitness and a sample fitness regimen with tips and tricks for meeting your fitness goals are discussed.

Make Everyday Independence Day with Mobility and Freedom for All

There is no more serious threat to an individual's independence than losing physical function and mobility. Dependence on others for assistance with the everyday activities of life can create a vicious downward cycle of lowered self-esteem, depression, and anxiety. These conditions hasten physiological and psychological decline when not managed or treated. This presentation explores the factors related to physical decline, including views on aging, nutrition, and physical activity. Lifestyle regimens that include the previous factors will improve a person's outlook on life and delay the onset of "caretaker" dependent living.

Growing Wiser: Healthy Aging Practices, For Peace of Mind, Disease Prevention, and Productive Longevity

Senior Presentation - Lifestyle optimization has the power to control aging by slowing, temporarily reversing, and even stopping cellular aging for a time. Aging is the most significant risk factor for disease onset. Slowing the rate of cellular aging positively influences genetic expression, effectively helping us avoid disease and ill health while promoting productive longevity. I'll discuss the importance of nutrition, physical activity, and creating a healthy mental outlook with positive expectations toward aging as keys to successfully aging. Tips & tricks to support your body's most valuable organ, your brain, will also be discussed.

Additional Topics Available for Presentation, Workshop, or Seminar Include:

The Paleo Perspectives Nutrition Plan: Combining Paleo-Mediterranean-Scandinavian Eating Principles for Health, Wellness, and Productive Longevity

What’s for Dinner: To Promote Health, Fat Loss, and Productive Longevity

The Paleo/Keto Diet: What is it, and is it for you?

Nutritional Supplement Sanity in a New Age of Snake Oil Sales

Suffocating Cell Syndrome and Aging: The Role of Air, Water, Sunshine, and Food

Stressed, Strained and Inflamed: What’s killing Us and What We can do about It

10 Health-Enhancing/Age-Reversing Lifestyle Tips

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If you're looking for a bona fide, impactful health promotion expert to headline your event, you can look no further than Wayne Coolidge, M.Ed. Having been a client of Wayne's since 1992, I can attest to his unparalleled health promotion and disease prevention expertise. Even after 33 years, I continue to rely on his wisdom and insights.

Wayne shines in front of groups, small and large, effortlessly sharing his vast wellness knowledge. His engaging style combines homegrown humor and wit that captivates audiences, ensuring participants walk away with valuable lessons about their health. If you’re looking for a speaker who can command the stage while delivering crucial information in an entertaining way, don’t miss the opportunity to put Wayne Coolidge in front of your people.

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