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Dana Mahina    

Leadership Coach, International Bestselling Author of "B is for Burnout, Not B*tch" & Podcast Host, "Work-Life Harmonized"

Dana Mahina is a corporate defector and recovering Silicon Valley CEO, multi-passionate coach, author of the new release "B is for Burnout, not Bitch, From Overdrive to Thrive A-Z," and the host of the "Work-Life Harmonized" podcast, as well as an expert in guiding powerful women and CEO leaders in transforming their lives.

Mahina is an expert on this planet who guides aspirational leaders through empowering their lives by trading their burnout for joy. She provides a safe space for individuals from all backgrounds to embrace who they are while making changes to achieve progressive harmony.

She has led a distinguished career as a renowned coach, expert on leadership, and recovering Silicon Valley executive. Mahina has helped thousands of people and teams step into their roles as authentic, joyful, and productive leaders. Emphasizing her unique Stop Settling® philosophy, she now helps guide and transform individuals into their most confident and joyful selves, especially women!

Speech Topics


Reduce Workplace Burnout For Women & Increase Your Joy Today

  • Learn what mental barriers are holding you back and how to trade the hustle for a holistic approach to life.
  • Gain the skills and strategies from Dana Mahina’s Stop Settling method, a mindset and movement aimed to help you be more productive, without settling for less.
  • Engage in high-level conversations in a safe space.
  • Finally embrace who you are meant to be, while making meaningful changes to achieve your progressive harmony.

Attendees will walk away with practical and actionable real-world tools that amplify joy while increasing their productivity, trading off busyness and incessant overachieving for a more sustainable approach to work-life harmony.

Life Hack Your Way To MicroJoy

During this session you will walk away with three key and critical life hacks to microstep their way through ending the vicious cycle of burnout.

  1. Learn the ways that executive leaders who are coached around the world, apply Dana Mahina's tips, tools, tricks and traps to avoid in order to increase your daily joy at work, home and beyond.
  2. Practice harmonizing techniques, right from your audience seat, that squash your inability to say NO! Increase your productivity, get beyond busy! This is the secret to scale that Dana teaches on her board appointments and to exclusive list of C-Suite leaders for the past 8 years (well, 30 years if you count her running companies/teams experience, but why date her?).
  3. Claim your value. Discover how the value you give your work, and family and friendships, communities, even to yourself is totally out of balance. What about receiving? Let Dana show you how to practice the give and get principles that create generational wealth and level the playing field for ALL.

Key takeaways include:

  • Proven methods to set boundaries with grace, dignity and power by challenging directly while also caring personally.
  • Confident communication tools to apply immediately that allow for increased energy and productivity.
  • Alignment of the value your provide at work and the exchange necessary to ensure your long-term traction in your role and vitality that all organizations and employers are banking on given The Great Resignation and The Great Stagnation

Coaching on Steroids for Founders (Even If The Ideas Still on a Napkin)

Join this workshop with Dana Mahina, a multi-passionate coach, 2x author, podcaster, and expert here to guide up and comers through transforming their lives. She is known for providing safe and inclusive spaces both live and virtually for individuals from all backgrounds to embrace who they are while making changes to achieve their progressive harmony.

She has helped thousands of people and teams step into their roles as leaders, intra, solo and entrepreneurs. Her signature series is all about Work-Life Harmony vs. Balance. Balance is bullshit Afterall. And, it leads to hamster in the wheel syndrome and who wants to live like that?

Dana is so excited about this topic because she is here to help you integrate the mental, emotional, social, and career aspects of your life to achieve what’s personally best for you. After hundreds of talks on stages both virtually and live, and two books published on these topics, along with her long-standing and award-winning podcast "Work-Life Harmonized", it's always fun to talk to new people, and in this case, independently minded and hearted individuals who are leading their lives with autonomy. Oh, how she wishes this were an option in her 20's, she did it the hard way, charting her own path. Now, she is here to help you get where you want to go, with less bruises, well, a few are necessary, so, less traps to step in.

Having the greatest "job" in the world...Dana Mahina gets what she calls the "mad privilege" of talking openly about every part of life and leadership: from ridding yourself of guilt at work to the power of gratitude and discipline, and even the 7 Hawaiian Huna Principles of Life (now that she lives full-time on the island of Kauai, when not speaking).

After this workshop, you will exit the event knowing that you are a beautiful and unique soul, and you deserve a life that brings harmony to every piece of your identity.

In order to launch your side hustle, dream company, or volunteer life of service, you must have the foundation to jump off of, for yourself, beyond the support of others, funding and strategic plan. Learn how to possess, own and co-create your very own superpower set of:

  • Confidence vs. Imposter Syndrome
  • Super Maximizing Approaches
  • Masterful Boundary Setting and Expectations Communications and so so so much more...

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