Not beige. Not boring. Real hope with a backbone.
Youth leadership, resilience & survivor-informed community talks.
Misti King helps young people move beyond old labels, hard beginnings, and self-doubt so they can build a future with purpose.
School-safe messaging
Customizable format
Q&A and workshops available
Featured talk
Keep Trading. Keep Climbing. Keep Building.
For the person booking the room:
Misti brings a clear message, flexible format, planning-friendly communication, and a
tone that respects both students and the adults responsible for them.
Resilience
Accountability
Leadership
Hope
Youth voice
Service
Small choices
Real talk
Resilience
Accountability
Leadership
Hope
Youth voice
Service
Small choices
Real talk
Built for rooms where young people need more than a pep talk.
Misti speaks with honesty, humor, and practical language that students and the adults who support them can actually use. The message is grounded without being heavy, hopeful without being soft, and direct without sounding like a lecture.
Keep Trading. Keep Climbing. Keep Building.
A student-facing talk about trading old labels for new possibilities, climbing through discomfort, and building a future one responsible choice at a time.
- For students carrying pressure, doubt, anger, grief, or hard beginnings
- For youth leadership, JROTC, intervention, and community programs
- For adults who want language that reaches guarded young people
45-60 minute assembly
Q&A optional
Workshop-ready
Why Misti
Misti brings lived experience, youth-centered work, creativity, and plainspoken humor into rooms that need honesty without hopelessness. Her message is survivor-informed, but it is not a trauma lecture. It is practical, human, and built around what young people can do next.
Trade. Climb. Build. Lead.
The Misti King framework makes the message portable. It gives students a way to remember the talk after the room clears.
Trade
Trade old labels, shame, and stuck stories for a more useful next choice.
Climb
Climb through discomfort with accountability, courage, and honest support.
Build
Build a future in small, repeatable steps instead of waiting to feel ready.
Lead
Lead through responsibility, influence, service, and how you show up next.
Best-fit stages and audiences
Middle and high school students
JROTC and youth leadership programs
Juvenile justice and youth intervention
CASA, child advocacy, and family-serving nonprofits
Libraries, churches, civic groups, and community events
Teachers, mentors, coaches, volunteers, and youth workers
Clear ways to bring Misti in
What audiences leave with
The goal is not a one-day emotional high. The goal is usable language students and adults can carry back into hallways, classrooms, programs, and hard conversations.
Not sure which talk fits? Tell me about the room.
Misti customizes the tone, examples, format, and level of interaction for each group. Assemblies, Q&As, workshops, staff conversations, and community talks are all on the table.
What organizers can expect
Pre-event planning call
Audience-specific customization
Q&A option when it fits the room
Workshop ideas for deeper engagement
One-sheet and booking details
Follow-up resources as the platform grows
Refer an organization
Know a school, youth program, advocacy group, library, church, civic club, or conference that should bring Misti in? Send the lead while it is fresh.
An idea platform, not just a calendar of talks.
The next layer is a resource library around youth resilience, leadership, and survivor-informed community support. This gives organizers something to share before and after the event.