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Loretta LaRoche      

Stress Management Expert, Author, Emmy Winner

Loretta LaRoche has dedicated over three decades to helping individuals navigate the complexities of stress with her distinctive humor and understanding of the absurd, simplifying life's challenges and bringing joy and laughter to her audiences. Her engaging approach in keynote speeches and lectures highlights how personal thoughts, feelings, and behaviors influence work performance, relationships, success, and self-worth. She emphasizes the role of humor in enhancing organizational health and boosting workplace productivity.

An accomplished international consultant and lecturer specializing in stress management, LaRoche has gained recognition through her involvement in five Emmy Award-winning PBS specials and numerous guest appearances on networks such as CNN, ABC, CBS, and NBC. She has authored several influential books, including "Relax—You May Only Have A Few Minutes Left" and "Life Is Short—Wear Your Party Pants", using humor to tackle the serious topic of stress management in everyday life.

LaRoche is the founder and president of The Humor Potential, Inc., which provides a variety of programs and products designed for lifestyle management. Her work, characterized by an optimistic psychology, significantly impacts the well-being of those who engage with her content. Annually, she delivers over 100 lectures, seminars, and training workshops worldwide to a diverse client list that includes NASA, the IRS, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, IBM, Hewlett Packard, and Dun & Bradstreet. She also collaborates with Joan Borysenko at the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, offering weekend conferences focused on women's health. As an adjunct faculty member at the Mind/Body Medical Institute of Boston, linked with Beth Israel and Harvard Medical School, and a contributing writer to The Wellness Book by Dr. Herbert Benson, LaRoche continues to impact audiences with her publications in major outlets like USA Today and The Boston Globe. Her weekly column, "Get a Life," featured in The Patriot Ledger, further establishes her as a leading voice in stress management and lifestyle enhancement.

Speech Topics


Whine, Women and Song: The Wit and Wisdom of Womanhood

Parenting With Humor

Life is Short! -Wear Your Party Pants

Loretta brings her one-of-a-kind perspective for living an optimistic and resilient life in these challenging times.

Life Is Not A Stress Rehearsal

Teaches you how to bring yesterday's sane wisdom into today's insane world so we can slow down, smell the roses, and learn to laugh at ourselves again.

Love, Laughter and Lasagna: A Recipe for a Positive Outlook

Sick of being a 'Human Doing?' Savor ways to elicit the past to reframe the present into a simpler lifestyle that honors families, friends, a sense of community and yourself.

Parenting With Humor (Is It Possible?) 'Sit down, stop it, clean your room, don't use my good scissors!' Sound familiar? Can we raise a responsible human being using optimism, joy and good humor without resorting to awfulizing and catastrophizing? Explore the possibilities of having a family that laughs and supports each other

Whine, Women and Song (The Wit and Wisdom of Womanhood)

'We are women hear us roar!' Is it possible to climb the corporate ladder, pick up toys, be a domestic goddess and not lose your mind! Discover the fun in the feminine as we share the wit and wisdom of being a woman.

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How to Prevent Hardening of the Attitude (Reducing Stress in the Workplace)

Our work literally takes up most of our lives. Therefore, it would make sense for us to choose to enjoy it. Find out how to look forward to Monday instead of enduring until Friday! Discover how thoughts, feelings and behaviors can affect work performance, relationships, success and our own self-worth.

The Joy of Stress (Finding the Bless in the Mess)

Join Loretta in discovering that 'stressed spelled backwards is desserts'. Explore the possibilities that can help us use stress as an ally rather than the enemy. Learn to become more resilient, creative and joyful.

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