Rich Curtis - Speaker, Author, Coach

If you didn't catch the live stream you can watch this mornings Empower U 2022 conference on youtube. It was a great discussion and I learned so much from the other speakers around me. Check it out:

Empower U 2002 Virtual Summit About : REFOCUSNever assume that you are stuck with the way things are.Life changes every single day, and so can YOU. Sometimes all we need to do...

Here is the official flyer for the Empower U 2022 Virtual Summit. In addition to seeing yours truly speak the key not speaker is a NASA rocket scientist and she is a power house, you won't be dissapointed! Come out and join us next Saturday 1/29/22 - NOTE- times on the flyer are in easter time, for us West Coasters it will be from 8:00-10:00am. See you there!

Hey everyone you should join me next Saturday for the Empower U 2022 virtual Summit. It's a free online summit and the theme for this year is REFOCUS. I think we could all use the chance to refocus as we head into another challenging pandemic year. I will be speaking on a panel at the summit and the other speakers are top notch as well!
Come join us! Note the times are in eastern standard time on the website so for all my west coast folks this will actually be next Saturday the 29th from 8 am to 10 am.
See you there!

Empower U 2022 | Empower U The theme for this year's virtual Summit is REFOCUS. And it is for anyone who feels the need to REFOCUS in any part of your life. It empowers you to REFOCUS your spiritual, mental, financial, occupational, physical, emotional, and environmental well-being. The Empower U Virtual helps p...

Hey Everyone, I had the great pleasure to chat with Sue Lundquist live on the Gratitude Cafe radio program. Below is a link where you can listen to it as a podcast or watch it on youtube. We got into the power of story, vulnerability as the first step to doing real life changing work and so much more. Give it a listen:

202 | Identify & Rewrite the Stories that Hold You Back with Rich Curtis - Sue Lundquist In this episode of The Gratitude Cafe, host Sue Lundquist talks with Rich Curtis about how to identify & rewrite the stories that are holding us back.

The search for happiness can only happen within yourself but it doesn’t hurt to be in your happy place when you do it. Here’s mine, the mountains and the rivers of the American west. Where’s yours?

Had a great time chatting with Dave Pamah about Change Your Story Change Your Life and how to upcycle your results by rewriting the stories that hold you back. Give it a listen!

Change Your Story Change Your Life with Rich Curtis Rich Curtis is, and always has been, a guide. He spent over a decade as a raft and mountain guide on the rivers and mountains of the American West and as…

The virtual book tour for Change Your Story Change your Life continues. I had the great pleasure of chatting with Mathew Boulton on his Mr. Bright Side podcast. You can watch this one on youtube just click the image below!

Or if you prefer audio only give it a listen here and check out Mathew's other great episodes!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mr-bright-side/id1503114628

Ep. 57: Rich Curtis: Rewrite the stories that are holding you back What stories are we telling ourselves and the people we love? Are they serving us or hurting us? And them? In today’s show, the power of story is made alarmi...

Had the pleasure of speaking with the great Phil Rowson on his Empowering Humans Podcast. It was a great conversation. Give it a listen and check out Phil's other great episodes:

‎Empower Humans: A Success, Joy & Growth Podcast!: 144: Change Your Story, Change Your Life! (w/ RICH CURTIS) on Apple Podcasts ‎Show Empower Humans: A Success, Joy & Growth Podcast!, Ep 144: Change Your Story, Change Your Life! (w/ RICH CURTIS) - Apr 4, 2021

I had the pleasure of speaking with the great and powerful Dr. LaMarr Darnell Shields on his podcast Soundbalming. He is a powerhouse of energy and positivity and we had a great conversation about improving the outcomes of your life by rewriting your stories. Check out our conversation, the Soundbalming podcast and everything Dr. Shields is up to. It will be well worth your time!

Change Your Story Change Your Life with Rich Curtis - SoundBalming with LaMarr Darnell Shields Rich Curtis is, and always has been, a guide. He spent over a decade as a raft and mountain guide on the rivers and mountains of the American West and as a real estate entrepreneur. Now he spends his time guiding people through life’s inflection p...

Back in the booth trying to knock out this audiobook for you all before PG+E shuts the power down again. Reading through the book again is getting me so stoked to share it with all of you! Coronavirus shut down the studio so I built one at home. Now the power company is about to shut down my home studio. 2020 isn’t making it easy but one way or another I will be bringing this book to you shortly. Whatever challenges you are facing today I hope you can hit them head on with calm and creativity!

The image below is of my then 4 year old experiencing the joy and wonder of his first sea plane ride over the Tofino coast in British Columbia a few years ago. Travel and adventure are in our DNA as a family. I started scuba diving at 12, backpacking and rock climbing by 13 and spent over a decade as a professional backpacking, rock climbing and whitewater raft guide.

I share that love of travel and adventure with my family so we go, a lot. Covid has forced us to stay, a lot. It has been very hard on my family. My kids have turned off our digital frame because seeing the pictures of our trips, days with friends and visits to family make them sad. At 7 and 3 they know that the life we are living now is very different than the life we lived before and they are grieving. As Jamie Anderson says in the quote above “grief is just love with no place to go”.

I know a little something about grief. My Mom died suddenly and unexpectedly 41 days before my first child was born. I spent two years deep in grief and depression after that. I spent another two years learning the science and habits of happiness to recover and writing my upcoming book about that journey to help others recover and get back to happiness quicker. Some of you have already lived with grief as I have and for some of you, the grief brought on by this pandemic is new to you. On my own journey I discovered that grief is a demon you have to make a home for, you can’t exorcise it, outrun it or outlast it. If you are willing to accept right now that the grief you feel for the life you had before covid is real and is yours forever you can start to heal from it. But you have to be willing to make a home for it. Grief without a home will bring you to your knees, suddenly and unexpectedly and wreak havoc in your life. But with acceptance, time and work you can make a home for it inside you. You can give it a place to live where you can access it when you need it but it no longer has the power to bring you to your knees without permission.

We have to be willing to take the time to grieve for the things we have lost. For my family that is travel, time with friends and family and a sense of freedom to go anywhere we want and do anything we want. It’s school in person, nights out with my wife and wilderness trips with my friends. The love we all have for that lifestyle has, for many months, had no where to go. We kept talking about what we will do “after covid” or “when the pandemic is over” ignoring our grief and prolonging it. Now 6 months in, it is time to accept that the pandemic is here to stay. It is time to stop talking about our lives “after covid” and start planning our lives “during covid”.

So I have made a home for my covid greif, I accept that it is here to stay, that this pandemic will be a part of my life for the days to come and I for one will write a story that creates a life worth living during the pandemic. In addition to giving my grief a home I am giving my love of our old life a place to go, straight into our current life.

I love that we have spent so much more time exploring the Sierras in our own back yard this summer, I love that we have put effort into our home to make it an efficient home, full time restaurant, play center, bike park, gym and movie theatre all wrapped into one small, mid century modern package. I love that we as a family are a pack that cares for each other, protects each other and pushes each other to be better. I can mourn for the life I had while loving the life I have now. I can’t outrun, outlast our out happy my grief, it’s mine forever but I can give that love some place to go.

What are you grieving for from your pre-covid life?

What new places have you found to send the love you had for your old life?

Let me know in the comments.

Thanks for reading and stay in the fight!