Honest hope with a backbone.
Misti King brings real talk for hard beginnings — and what comes next.
Misti King speaks with young people, the adults who support them, and community audiences about identity, trust, resilience, and rebuilding — with humor, accountability, and hope that does not require pretending.
Signature talk
Keep Trading. Keep Climbing. Keep Building.
Resilience
Accountability
Leadership
Hope
Youth voice
Trust
Small choices
Real talk
Resilience
Accountability
Leadership
Hope
Youth voice
Trust
Small choices
Real talk
Built for rooms where young people need more than a pep talk.
Young people can spot a canned pep talk a mile away. Misti brings hard-earned honesty, humor, and practical language to rooms where the message needs to be real enough to trust and hopeful enough to use.
Explore Speaking OptionsKeep 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 middle and high school students carrying pressure, doubt, anger, grief, or hard beginnings
- For JROTC, youth leadership, intervention, juvenile justice, and community programs
- For rooms that need resilience and accountability without shame or empty hype
30–60 MINFLEXIBLE
Q&AOPTIONAL
WORKSHOPREADY
Why Misti
Misti brings lived experience, youth-centered work, creativity, and plainspoken humor into rooms that need honesty without hopelessness.
Her background includes community-based youth programming and direct work with young people in the juvenile justice system. Paired with a survivor-informed perspective, warmth, and practical storytelling, that experience helps audiences feel connected instead of lectured.
Young people need to feel seen before they can fully believe in who they are becoming.
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Different rooms. Different needs. Same honest backbone.
Misti's work changes with the room without changing who she is.
Young People
Adults Who Support Young People
Community & Adult Audiences
For Young People
Leadership, resilience, identity, choices, and future-building.
Without pretending hard beginnings are easy to outgrow.
Students | JROTC | youth leadership | intervention programs
For Adults Who Support Young People
For adults trying to earn trust with guarded young people.
For educators, mentors, coaches, youth workers, and others who want to stay present without shaming, rescuing, or giving up too soon.
For Community & Adult Audiences
Honest, humorous storytelling about rebuilding, belonging, identity, and becoming who you are without pretending the past never happened.
For civic groups, nonprofits, community organizations, leadership rooms, and adult audiences.
Trade. Climb. Build.
A simple framework for what comes next: what to release, what to move through, and what to build one choice at a time.
01
Trade
Trade old labels, shame, and stuck stories for language that leaves room for a next choice.
02
Climb
Climb through discomfort with accountability, courage, and support that does not turn away.
03
Build
Build a future in small, repeatable steps instead of waiting to feel ready.
What people carry out of the room.
The goal is not a one-day emotional high. It is usable language people can carry back into hallways, classrooms, programs, relationships, and hard conversations.
Let's talk about your audience.
Share who will be there, what you are planning, and what you hope people will carry out of the room. Misti will help shape the stories, depth, interaction, and format around the audience and the moment.
Pre-event planning
Audience-specific customization
Q&A when appropriate
Workshop options
Clear conversation about fit