Lucy Smith Personal Coaching Inspirational Public Speaking

Lucy performs up to 20 speaking engagements annually, from casual and informal discussions with running groups, to energetic and positive presentations to school children, to larger key note addresses at the Royal Victoria Marathon and other conferences. A casual and honest speaker, Lucy engages well with triathletes and runners of all abilities, mothers, and young athletes eager for a role model. From an early age, Lucy found herself in leadership roles and she thrives in a connected environment where she can share and receive stories from others.

For over twenty years Lucy has pursued a career in sport, a career that created opportunities for personal growth, travel and a wide range of intense experience. This engaged experience in sport has allowed her to gain valuable insight into what sustains a path to personal excellence, good health and well being. Using stories and humour, Lucy shows how her lifelong path has had a positive impact on her personal development as a woman, and shares her understanding of the important difference between having dreams and setting goals. She illustrates the concepts of having clear priorities and intentions and how misguided fear of the unknown is usually the main barrier standing between people and their potential. Lucy points out how the realities of disappointment and failure are powerful learning tools on the path of personal success and how having right attitude attracts people who assist you in developing vision and purpose in your career. Sharing some of the highlights of her extensive traveling to competitions, she reaffirms how the principles of true friendship, self belief, unselfishness, love and quality work can be found in following your passions.

What they said:

"Last night was AWESOME!!!!! Lucy was the best!! I think our best guest to date... but to have a woman athlete there and she is still so 'real' - it was great!! We had a great run too!!! I had so much positive energy coming at me from Lucy!! So how could it be bad!

Thanks for a great experience....so far!!!!"

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"Hi Lucy! I hope you remember me. I saw you in Penticton when you did the PowerBar swim seminar at the beach before the race. I am the one who cried on you because I was scared of swimming. I just wanted to say thank you for your warm encouragement and advice, it helped me a lot. I had a great race and my swimming was great too. I couldn't believe how much I enjoyed every moment during my race. Your advice made my race so easy and helped me a lot during the race. So thank you very very much and I hope I can see you at some other races!

Good luck for your next race!"
- K. Shinkai

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"Lucy is full of enthusiasm... Could have listened all day!"

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"After hearing Lucy's story, I know that I can do anything! I can 'have the best tired run' I can for the day. Even if things are hard, I just have to keep my eye on my dream and keep moving."