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Five Pillars to
Amplify Personal and
Professional Experiences
Sam Glenn kicked off the conference promising
to provide ideas to amplify your personal and
professional experiences. His keynote focused
on five E's that form the pillar and provide an
excellent method for storytelling, listening, and
understanding at a deeper level.
Example: Create stories that can be positively
unforgettable. The key to recognizing the power of
your example is awareness and practice.
Encouragement: Empower your team. Get to know
people and learn their encouragement language.
Empowerment: Connect to what inspires you.
Every day we have to feed our mind because input
creates output. When we put good stuff in, the
good stuff comes out through our attitude and
actions.
Excellence: Make the best of what you have, where
you are, and who you are-allowing yourself to
progress.
Empathy: Demonstrate compassion, care, love, and
giving people a reason to keep going. Recognize
everybody has their own unique story.
Sam closed the keynote by reinforcing how truly
powerful these five concepts can be in our daily
communications. He hoped everyone had some
fun and felt recharged, reenergized, inspired, and
encouraged.

Life is Better When
You're Laughing
Many say laughter is the best medicine. Motivational keynote
speaker, Sam Glenn, shared several stories to back up this
belief to its truest form. Humor and laughter within the
workplace, or any professional environment, should be
something welcomed with open arms. With so much negativity
circulating around, it's rejuvenating to take a step back and
revisit a negative situation from a humorous perspective.
Laughter can act as a palate cleanser, motivator, and an
overall attitude adjustment. Starting each morning revisiting
cataloged stories from your own memory index-that you've
made time to add humor to-allows you to feel better, make
better decisions, and to be a better person overall. By sharing
several personal anecdotes from previous years, Sam proves
life truly is better when you're laughing.
Does humor belong in your workplace? Sam Glenn believes
it does. Humor is a human relationship connector and is an
emotional muscle that must be exercised. Laughter is joy,
optimism, and strength. He outlines three main points:

1.	 L
 aughter is healthy for the workplace. It affects the workplace
environment with positivity, but it should be pure, it should be
positive, it shouldn't be offensive, and nobody should ever feel
bad about it.
2.	 Y
 ou are your best source of humor. We have an inventory of
things that have happened in our lives. It's okay to lighten up,
laugh, and reflect on the stories to recharge your attitude.
3.	 L
 aughter can be an incredible example of strength during a
crisis. Get your bearings, recharge, and share joy in the midst of
your storm through humor-finding something good to relate to,
in order to get through the challenge.

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