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Curiosity makes heroes
out of all of us.

TEDx Youngstown 2022

TEDx Youngstown 2022

How Curiosity Makes Heroes Out of All of Us

What She Brings to a Room

Cathy Sommerville has spent nearly three decades in rooms where the stakes are high and the truth matters.

Real estate taught her that. So did sobriety. So did raising three children while building a career, and learning the hard way that you cannot give people what you do not have.

She speaks from that place. Not from a slide deck. Not from a script. From 40-plus years of lived experience and the clarity that comes from being done pretending.

Her talks are not motivational in the traditional sense. They do not leave you pumped up and back at your desk by Monday doing the same thing. They leave you with a question you cannot put down. That is the point.

What She Speaks On

Coaching to Curiosity

What happens when you stop looking for the answer and start asking a better question. For leadership teams, women's networks, and organizations ready to think differently about how they solve problems.

Smart Women Aging Gracefully

What becomes possible when women stop performing good girl and start showing up whole. For conferences, retreats, and events for women in mid-life and beyond.

Both And

The leadership principle she learned dropping off three kids at three schools before 9am. How to be fully present in your work and your life, not by splitting yourself in half, but by stopping the split altogether.

Cathy Sommerville at TEDx Youngstown Cathy Sommerville at WomanUP keynote Cathy Sommerville speaking at TEDx

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Cathy sends occasional letters. Not a newsletter. Not a content calendar. Just what she is thinking about, what she is reading, what she keeps coming back to.