Empowering Keynotes and Programs
to  Make the Rest of Your Life
the Best of Your Life

Re-Fire, Don’t Re-tire Retreat
Prime Time Makeover: How to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life
Re-fire, Don’t Retire: Awakening Your Purpose and Passions
Your Power Years: The Longevity Revolution & Reinventing Your Retirement
The Real Key to Happiness: How to Create the Life You Want
Cruise into Retirement: How to Barter Your Talents for FREE Cruises

Dr. Cynthia conducts varies seminars and retreats designed to give retired people a fresh look on the second half of their live. With her energetic, fast-paced mix of step-by-step how-to information, audiences are inspired to see beyond retirement to reach their best years yet. Each individual walks away with a new sense of self and enthusiasm, ready to make beneficial changes toward a more meaningful and fulfilled life.

Re-Fire, Don’t Retire Retreat

Held at various luxury locations throughout the year, Dr. Cynthia leads inspirational and empowering one-day or two-day retreats designed to help retired people discover there is life after retirement and define their life purpose and personal power.

Empowerment retreats will help you:

• Clarify what matters most to you
• Consciously create the life you want
• Renew your body, mind and spirit
• Identify and break free from old, outgrown habits that may be keeping you from achieving the retirement of your dreams
• Create a personalized roadmap that will guide you, step by step, from where you are right now to where you want to be
• Receive support from a coach who is committed to doing whatever it takes to keep you on course and motivated

Available as a one or two day retreat

Prime Time Makeover: How to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life

Your retirement years are too important to leave to chance. Don’t settle for empty and boring. Prime Time Makeover will teach you how to live your life to the fullest every single day! This program will not only help you create a roadmap for joyful living after retirement, it’s chock full of tips, tools and practical techniques for creating a fabulously fulfilling life in your golden years.

At this seminar you will learn how to

• Rediscover your life’s purpose
• Reinvent retirement by finding a new balance between  work and leisure
• Rekindle long-held passions and find new interests
• Rediscover and forge vital relationships
• Contribute to society and leave a lasting legacy
• Ignite your untapped potential and resuscitate your forgotten dreams
• Feel in control and impervious to the judgments of others
• Wake up every morning filled with purpose and excitement about the day’s events
• Learn to redefine and reinvent yourself for ultimate success

Available as a keynote, workshop or one-day seminar

Re-fire, Don’t Retire: Awakening Your Purpose and Passion

This dynamic and interactive presentation includes practical exercises that inspire and motivate audiences to live the fulfilling life they want! Awakening Your Purpose and Passion will give you the step-by-step plan to create magnetic goals, concentrate with laser-guided focus, reduce stress, direct energy, and create the life you want.

At this seminar you will learn how to

• Discover if you are currently living your life’s purpose or if you have settled for something less
• Explore the many different forms your higher purpose may take (i.e. career or work project, volunteer project, learning, growth, healing, an artistic endeavor, etc.)
• Gain insight into the conditioned thought patterns and outside influences that are sabotaging you and keeping you on a wrong path
• Learn how to use affirmations to reprogram your thinking and eliminate the blocks that are preventing you from fulfilling your destiny
• Explore your authentic nature and learn how reclaiming and embracing who you really are makes you feel alive
• Learn powerful techniques for connecting with your 'higher self'— the part of you that knows and has always known why you are here.

 Available as a keynote, workshop or one-day seminar

Your Power Years: The Longevity Revolution & Reinventing Your Retirement

This seminar will provide the answers for baby boomers fearing retirement and old age. Through interactive exercises, you will learn that you can achieve your dreams and live long, prosperous lives. During this dynamic program, you will learn how the longevity revolution will impact your life, family, and community. This program is based on futurist Dr. Ken Dychtwald’s book "Your Power Years: A User’s Guide to the Rest of Your Life". The program is full of eye-opening facts and insights from nearly thirty years of research and study on the baby boomer demographic. At this session you'll also get a free 34-page workbook for further study and reflection.

At this seminar you will learn how to:

• Appreciate how the baby boomer generation has transformed every life stage they have inhabited
• Understand the longevity revolution and how it will change our society, communities, families and the marketplace
• Recognize the difference between a traditional linear life and the opportunities inherent in the new cyclic life paradigm
• Learn how retirement is being redefined and what these “power years” can mean to your life
• Envision “Your Power Years,” identify the challenges ahead, and explore the steps necessary to live a purposeful life

Available as a keynote, workshop or one-day seminar

The Real Key to Happiness: How to Create the Life You Want

Expand your ability to experience happiness in all aspects of your life

This program offers a comprehensive guide to understanding what happiness is, and isn't, and what can be done to bring us all closer to the happy life we envision for ourselves. You will learn happiness enhancing strategies that you can use to achieve a happier life. These include exercises in practicing optimism when imagining the future, instruction in how best to savor life's pleasures in the here and now. You will develop the skills and strategies to be happier now in an interactive workshop format supported by practical examples and exercises.

At this empowering workshop you will learn to:

• Live a more fulfilling life
• Receive your heart’s desires
• Learn to just go with the flow
• Gain insights and new perspectives
• Be more grateful and happier
• Follow the path to a happier life
• Have a life changing experience

Cruise into Retirement: How to Barter Your Talents for FREE Cruises

Do you enjoy cruising and vacations? So do I! For the last 6 years I have been able to cruise FREE with my companion to Alaska, the Caribbean, the Mediterranean, and to Hawaii.  I’d like to teach you how to do the same!

After this session you will be able to:

• To create strategies to barter your Talents for FREE Cruises for YOU and YOUR companion
• Experience all the perks as a paying passenger
• Enjoy Port Day  for FREE- you get to do everything the other passengers do

Customized Motivational Seminars

Dr. Barnett can partner with your organization to create a program tailored to the culture and dynamic of your organization.

Partial Client List
Bridgeport Board of Education
Norwalk Board of Education
Fairfield Public Library
New York City Board of Education
National Association of Secondary Schools
Norwegian Cruise Ships
John Sousa School
WIC Convention
Housatonic Community College
University of Bridgeport
Maricopa Head Start, Phoenix, AZ
Horizons Program, Green Farms Academy
Hall Neighboring Center
Side by Side School
St. Marks Day Care Center
Stepping Stones Museum
Norwalk Housing Authority
Grace Baptist Church
Calvary Baptist Church
Norwalk Senior Center
Westport Senior Center