Speaking Abstracts
How to Go From InviSible to InvinCible.
Becoming your very best by helping others
Sherpa and African guides are dying escorting wealthy, privileged clients to the top of the world. Susan Purvis, unwilling to accept these needless deaths, founds a high-altitude medical school where she changes lives—and saves lives —for indigenous peoples; the invisible ones, the poorest and most underserved.
Susan inspires her audience with stories from the flanks of Mt. Kilimanjaro and Mt. Everest two of the most dangerous and fatal mountains for hikers, climbers and guides, as she trains farmers and yak herders with no education or wilderness medicine experience, to become international superstars.
You, too, will be inspired to look for opportunities to help the invisible become invincible which may mean looking at yourself.
Women Empowerment. Recognizing When Your Own Denial Is Holding You Back.
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After years of facing her fears head on, Susan Purvis has lived a life many have only dreamed of. No more letting your biggest challenges and fears hold you back from the life you want to – and are meant to live.
No more avoiding the truth of what keeps you in a state of non-action.
Susan will take you on a journey from the moment she decided she was not going to live the unsatisfying, unhealthy life she watched her mother live. Without a mentor or a roadmap, Susan creates an unconventional career in the outdoor adventure industry.
You’re about to go on a journey that first explains, in clear terms, how fear is poewrful enough to deny us from our true purpose and passion, and how to get out of your own way and step into what you’re really supposed to be done.
Susan life changed when she found independence exploring the outdoors: canoeing through squalls and whitecapped waves on extended trips, bicycling from Montana to Alaska and New Zealand alone, co-piloting a 177 Cessna to the Amazon to learn about the burning of the rainforest.
In 1995, Susan bought a rebellious black lab puppy, Tasha, and trained her to save lives in the high country of Colorado. Along the way, she learned about search and rescue, avalanches, and how to care for the injured. She also found the purpose and passion that had been missing from her life. Together, Susan and Tasha became the top rescue dog team in the nation. Susan wrote and narrated her award-winning, bestselling memoir, Go FInd: My Journey to Find the Lost–And Myself. In 1998, Susan founded her wilderness medicine and avalanche education company, Crested Butte Outdoors International, and since then, she trains others to save lives.
The Denial Expert: Moving Your Mindset from Denial to Acceptance
As an accomplished, adventurous outdoor woman, Susan was as lost as anyone she ever found.
JOIN HER AS SHE SHARES HER HEROING STORY OF HOW Over a decade into her successful canine search and rescue career SHE asks HERSELF, “How DID the lost expert get lost”
Susan uses breathtaking photos from her expeditions to the hottest, coldest and highest places on earth and shares the many places we really get lost: in a marriage, a career, an addiction, our health and in a life.
She inspires us to dig deep to find the missing parts of our story, so we can move from denial to acceptance.
The Miracle of K-9 Scent Detection.
Every day our canines are telling us something. Are we listening?
Join Susan Purvis as she shares fascinating stories of her tenure as one of the nations most recognized wilderness canine search and rescue specialists.
How many people would love to learn what their dog is trying to tell them? What does it mean when your dog wines, barks or disobeys your command?
With 20 years of experience training search and rescue dogs, Susan Purvis will teach you how to understand what your dog is trying to so hard to tell you.
Susan shares stories about how canines detect humans in the water, locate nitrogen in bombs, find accelerants in fires, dig up humans buried ten feet under the snow, sniff a victim shot, chopped up, burned and buried. The audience will use their knowledge, put on their detective hat and participate in the best mission of all, finding a 12-year-old lost in a winter blizzard.