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Ann Jillian        

Emmy & Golden Globe Winner, Actress, Breast Cancer Survivor

Ann Jillian is a three-time Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning actress and singer. Since 1985, she has also become renowned as a motivational speaker, addressing business, medical, professional, and women's groups with a mix of humor and inspiration. Her speaking engagements are known for their uplifting nature and often include musical performances, making them both entertaining and educational. She focuses on topics such as overcoming personal and professional challenges, with a special emphasis on her experiences as a breast cancer survivor.

Jillian's approach to motivational speaking is described as fun, informative, and adaptable. She combines her life stories with humor and personal anecdotes to engage her audiences, making each presentation a unique event. Her resilience in the face of personal challenges, including her battle with breast cancer, is a central theme in her talks. This experience led her to play herself in "The Ann Jillian Story," a TV movie that not only topped ratings as the #1 film of the TV season but also served as an inspiring tale of hope and survival.

With over forty years in show business, Jillian's career has spanned concert halls, feature films, and the Broadway stage. She has starred in more than 25 TV movies, and her extensive experience in the entertainment industry enriches her presentations, making them resonate with a wide audience. As a working mom and the president of her own production company, 9-J, she brings a relatable and heartfelt element to discussions about life and motherhood. Her speaking programs, including titles like "The Winner In You," "Surviving & Thriving," and "Never Had A Bad Day In My Life," reflect her commitment to motivating others to feel good about their lives and take proactive steps towards health and happiness.

Jillian's contributions extend beyond her professional work. She is actively involved with various charitable organizations, including Meals On Wheels, the American Cancer Society, St. Jude Children's Hospital, the USO, and the D.A.V., showcasing her dedication to community service and support for important causes. Her work with Dr. Jonas Salk at the Salk Institute, focusing on finding cures for AIDS and cancer, highlights her commitment to health and medical research. Her story and messages continue to inspire and motivate people around the world.

Speech Topics


A Conversation With Ann Jillian

This is an informal conversation between Ann and the audience that can deal with all of the above or go off in other directions that the sponsor & audience really care about. It's friendly, informative, fun and can be intimate in most every way. "Up close and personal"...

Piano Lecture

Ann is always on target with her message of hope: Her performance is uplifting and inspirational. Add her pianist, and her program remains a major motivational lecture about life, health, and the joys of motherhood, accentuated with song.

Surviving & Thriving

"Let's face it, the one thing we all have in common is the struggle to survive! Finding the recipe to thrive as well as survive in today's world, is not an easy task for anyone. Sometimes "reinvention" of yourself, your product, may be required. The old fashioned approach of making lemonade from those "lemons" life seems to like to roll our way." Watching and listening to Ann Jillian as she winds her way through her own numerous reinvention's, as we find out what worked and what didn't work in her business & personal life, is a formidable lesson that audiences have applied in their own lives with great success. The focus here is on what's really important to sustain not just 'surival', but a rewarding and fulfilled life. It's forward to basics and more. She will tell you the contents of her father-in-law "little gray travel case", that is key to a life of excellence!

The Winner In You

When Ann delivers this motivational lecture and states that "There Is A Winner in every one of you", audiences at once can see that she truly believes it. Ann has never met a person in whom she could not find potential. While you will laugh heartily at Ann's comical perspective of those she found more challenging to find "potential" in, the end result will be an audience motivated to identify and develop their own "Winner" from within to the utmost. Belief ignites belief and consumes those in its path with inspiration to rise to the occasion. Gently, humorously, sometimes poignantly, she draws the willing audience out of themselves and into her experiences, rekindling the fire, sometimes forgotten, of their own "belief" in themselves. For example, to a group of new car dealers who were having a bad year, "Ladies and gentlemen, let's put matters in perspective here. The problem? You're having a tough time selling a fine automobile that is everything a new car buyer could want. I can relate. My problem? I was an actress fighting for my life against breast cancer and how could I get the TV networks to continue buying shows from me after I lost both my breasts to cancer? Talk about losing your edge! Over kill I'd say! But seriously, I could still act, still deliver a performance, so I polished myself up as best as I could, and confident that I could still deliver the "goods," I walked into the network meetings and showed them I believed I was every bit as good as I was before. It became clear to me; I believed, so they believed. And Brandon Tartikoff, then president of NBC, must have believed a whole lot because he ordered a TV series, and three TV movies of the week from me! You must still believe in your product and in yourself if you ever expect others to. I'm such an admirer of those great old songs that told us to ...(she sings a few bars here) "pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and start all over again!", and when she sings from her song "The Winner In You", that ended her acclaimed "The Ann Jillian Story" movie, audiences go home with a renewed confidence in themselves and their own unique potential.

Never Had A Bad Day In My Life

When audiences know that the person speaking to them has been through the toughest of times, both personally and professionally, the speaker can convince the audience that they never really had a "bad" day in their lives. Such realizations help to inspire and motivate those people onward in taking their own life to a more rewarding and satisfying level. Sometimes we get careless and forget the incredible possibilities that wait for us to seek them out. In such cases, Ann is able to help each individual listener focus more on the positive, attainable goals and less on the things that matter least.

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