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Tonya Talks!

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After a Tonya Talk presentation, your participants will leave with a new skill, a new inspiration, and a spring in their step!

“Give me one hour, and I’ll give you an event that your audience will rave about!”

Tonya Joy Lehman

Introducing Tonya Lehman: an educator, speaker, and entrepreneurial force hailing from sunny San Diego, California. With passion and flair, she ignites audiences with dynamic talks on communication mastery, goal-crushing strategies, courage cultivation, and unleashing creativity. From intimate community gatherings to high-stakes corporate arenas, Tonya electrifies every space she enters, inspiring transformation and sparking lasting change.

  • Community Groups

  • Retreats

  • Workshops

  • Churches

  • Schools

  • Business environments

Your speech is an inspiration for me to keep improving.
— Mark S.
Riveting performance! Very impressive.
— Monica P.

Choose The Topic That Fits Your Event

COMMUNICATION - GOAL SETTING - COURAGE - MAKER SPACE - INSPIRATION - JUST FOR FUN


Communication Presentations

How to Speak Up: It’s Even for Introverts

Using Improv to Improve - Better Your Communication Skills for Business and Personal Success in a Fun Audience Participation Presentation

From Silence to Strength: Three Secrets to Speaking Up for Personal Growth and Professional Success

Sample of Audience Outcomes: Develop deeper listening skills, hone your audience awareness, embrace body language that makes you open and flexible to ideas instead of closed off.


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Goal Setting Presentations

The Three T’s to Family Togetherness

What Are You Wishing For? You Can Accomplish It!

Are We There Yet? How to Raise Children Who Love Travel As Much As You Do

Life Achievements Often Require Compromises - Is That OK? The Example of Amelia Earhart

Sample of Audience Outcomes: Gain practice in realistic goal setting, compare examples of other life achievements, evaluate the merits of different goals.


Courage Presentations

Courage - Five Reasons to Say YES More Often

The Bride and the Busboy - Be The Person to Take Action in An Emergency

Sample of Audience Outcomes: Confident in own abilities, role play leads to new skills, awareness of other successful people just like us.


Maker Space Presentations

Have No Stress and No Mess at Dinnertime with Freezer Meals

See How Easily You Can Make Your Own T-shirt Quilt in One Day

Unexpected Hospitality - How to Look Like You Have It All Together When You Really Don’t

Sample of Audience Outcomes: Hands on workshops result in products to take home (freezer meals, t-shirt quilt), confidence to host guests at home.

T-Shirt Quilt in a Day

The Grafton Shipwreck

Inspiration Presentations

Hope - A Story of Isolation, Shortages, Learning and Hope

Be Kind - How to Show Kindness to Others Even When You Don’t Want To, And Why You Should

Sample of Audience Outcomes: Compare examples of trials to your own (you are not the only one!), have a action plan for different situations, compassion for others.


Everyone Can Swing Dance

Just For Fun Presentation

Everyone Can Swing Dance!

Sample of Audience Outcomes: After 30 minutes, able to dance basic swing dance moves among the group, engaged socially in a fun and happy group activity.

Amazing expression while holding a strong positive message in the story.
— Lisa P.

Frequently Asked Questions

How long are Tonya Talk presentations?

  • All presentations can be modified to fit 20 minutes to 90 minutes. Flexible to fit your event needs!

  • The Maker Space presentations can become half-day or full-day hands-on workshops, where everyone leaves with a finished product

How many people can be at a Tonya Talk presentation?

  • Small groups and large groups can all benefit from Tonya’s presentations. However, the minimum audience requirement is 20 people. This is the magic number to have an engaging and fun experience!

How much do Tonya Talks cost?

  • As much as she’d like to, Tonya cannot speak for free. Nor can she speak in exchange for a meal, or a ticket to your event, or a review on Yelp, or a collection from the audience, or ….

  • The length of the requested talk, how far she travels, and other factors all affect the price.

  • Throughout the year Tonya Talks have special pricing sales.

  • If you are interested, fill out one of the forms on this page and Tonya or her team will get back to you.

I absolutely LOVED all of your speech. Thank you, I will carry it with me as encouragement.
— Sara S.
So fun...thank you!
— Parker S.

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