The Negativity Remedy
Negativity is contagious. It spreads quietly and shows up everywhere. In our workplaces, our relationships, our homes, and in the way we talk to ourselves. Most of us wish we could shut it off, but end up feeling drained, irritated, or stretched too thin to do anything about it. The Negativity Remedy is a reset that teaches how to interrupt negative thinking, build emotional strength, and use small acts of kindness to transform the way we move through the world.
In this honest and practical keynote, Nicole Phillips shares real stories and simple tools that helped her rewire her mindset in the middle of real struggle. Instead of pretending everything is fine or ignoring what is hard, she shows how to make space for both. When we shift the way we think, we shift the way we show up. And when we show up differently, everything around us changes.
Key Takeaways
1. You are the common denominator.
We cannot control other people, but we always have influence over our response. Change begins when we recognize the role we play in our own negativity.
2. You can retrain your mind.
Thoughts create pathways. Learning to reject old patterns and replace them with intentional language reshapes the way we see ourselves and others.
3. You always have something to give.
Even when life feels depleted, small acts of kindness replenish energy, build connection, and create forward motion.
4. You are wired uniquely.
Kindness is not one size fits all. Your natural strengths are the exact tools someone needs. Leading with your own style of kindness matters.
5. Small actions shift the world.
A smile, a pause, a thoughtful response, a moment of courage. These actions interrupt negativity in powerful ways and inspire others to do the same.
Perfect for corporate teams, educators, healthcare workers, community groups, and anyone navigating stress, transition, or burnout. Audiences walk away with simple daily practices that create measurable change in mindset, culture, and connection.
Holding Two Truths: Making Space for Hope in Hard Times
Life hands us seasons that feel overwhelming. Stress, grief, burnout, major transitions, and uncertainty can take up every inch of our mental and emotional space. But even when life is heavy, there is still room for joy, gratitude, and peace. This honest and practical keynote explores how to hold both the struggle and the hope at the same time. Through real stories and simple tools, Nicole Phillips shows how to honor what is hard without letting it overshadow what is still good. Because even in our toughest moments, two truths can exist side by side.
Three Key Takeaways
- Two truths can coexist.
Even in seasons of pain, fear, or uncertainty, there is still room for joy, gratitude, and peace. Acknowledging both realities — the hardship and the goodness — creates space for healing and resilience. - Your attention is powerful.
Hard things (like cancer, loss, or daily frustrations) deserve recognition, but they don’t have to consume all your mental and emotional space. Choosing where to “park your brain” allows you to see the space where goodness, kindness, and beauty still exists around you. - You can train your mind toward hope.
Through practical tools like recalling past resilience, rejecting and replacing negative thoughts, segmenting your day, entering a “virtual reality” with positive memories, and stepping outside your comfort zone, you can rewire your brain to find light even in dark seasons.
Kindness is Contagious Community Conversations
Real stories. Real connection. Rekindling hope across America.
People everywhere are tired of division, isolation, and constant negativity. Communities are hungry for connection and ready for something that unites instead of separates. Kindness is Contagious Community Conversations is a live, story driven event designed to bring people together, celebrate what is good, and rebuild hope.
Nicole Phillips travels to cities and towns across the country to uncover powerful local stories of kindness and turn them into a live community experience. Through humor, storytelling, and practical tools for resilience, this event highlights everyday people doing extraordinary things and shows how small actions can shift the culture of an entire community. The program includes an interactive keynote, community storytelling, and a digital kindness booklet featuring real residents and their acts of generosity.
Audiences walk away feeling proud of where they live, seen and connected to one another, and equipped with simple ways to spread kindness in daily life.
Key Takeaways
1. Stories shape culture.
When we highlight what is working and who is doing good, we strengthen community pride and invite others to participate.
2. Kindness builds connection.
Small acts of care break down barriers and help people connect across differences, reducing isolation and division.
3. Everyone plays a role.
Kindness does not require money, status, or a huge platform. Everyone has something meaningful to give.
4. Hope is practical.
Simple daily actions can reduce stress, improve emotional well-being, and strengthen workplaces, schools, and neighborhoods.
5. Change begins locally.
Communities become safer, stronger, and more hopeful when we focus on what unites us instead of what divides us.
Ideal for community groups, civic leaders, schools, faith and service organizations, corporate sponsors, and local businesses interested in supporting well-being and unity.
Letting Go of the Black Dot: A Shift in Focus for Breast Cancer Survivors
What’s your hard place? We all have one. Perhaps it’s your own cancer, or the fight for a loved one. Through her inspiring stories and touching authenticity, Nicole Phillips reveals ways to push through the “tough” by shifting our focus from the black dots in our lives to the bright white spaces filled with love and kindness.
Your audience will leave feeling uplifted, refreshed and equipped with tools for setting their trials aside and enjoying everyday life. Tools such as:
- saying no to negativity
- drawing more gratitude into our lives
- knowing why it’s essential to let people help us (it’s for their good, not ours!)
- keeping your sense of humor through the seriousness of life
As a mother of three, diagnosed in 2015 on her 40th birthday, Nicole can also speak on:
- walking kids through a cancer diagnosis
- how to protect your family time when the well-intentioned helpers arrive
- updating friends and extended family without sapping your energy
- how Nicole’s daughter got her product in Walmart and raised $100,000 for breast cancer support and research
Kindness is Contagious:
What if there really were a secret to happiness well within our grasp? Perhaps there is! We often think of kindness as something that flows from our surplus: our extra time, extra energy or extra resources, leaving us to ask, “How can I possibly give to others when I don’t have enough for myself?”
In her Kindness is Contagious speaking presentation, Nicole explores the chain reaction that happens within our bodies when we lead with kindness. While it seems like it should be entirely altruistic, study after study proves that the greatest benefits of kindness are actually in store for the giver.
The Power of a Brave and Kind Congregation:
We have all heard it’s important to be kind to one another, but does kindness really matter? In The Power of a Brave and Kind Congregation, Nicole speaks to the body of (sometimes) frustrated believers about the critical spirit in ourselves and in our churches.
Read the PRESENTATION NOTES FOR CHURCH LEADERS here.
In this presentation, your team will learn specific actions to:
- stop the critical spirit in its tracks
- deal with difficult people
- trigger the release of four feel-good chemicals in the body
- train the brain through acts of kindness
- develop patterns that make kindness a habit
- say Yes to kindness and No to negativity
Created for Kindness:
Kindness is like a secret passageway through which God takes care of others and us. Only it’s not much of a secret– it’s all over the Bible. For every act of kindness we commit, God promises a reward. “Those who are kind benefit themselves…” Proverbs 11:17
In her Created for Kindness speaking presentation, Nicole explores the possibility that we are not only commanded to be kind, but indeed created for that very purpose! We were created to be kind, but it’s awfully hard to find our stride in life when we refuse to step into our eternal purpose. Your group will leave Nicole’s presentation feeling hopeful that there is indeed much they can do to create light in a dark world while adding great joy to their own lives.
