This Circle Has No Sides - TEDx Talking in the Time of TED & AI

WAIT, WAIT THERE IS A FREE WAY TO LEARN CLIMATE COMMUNICATIONS YOURSELF?

THIS CIRLCE HAS NO SIDES: Your Climate Toolkit Just Got a Superpower (60 Minutes, Zero Boring)

Hey World Pulse Sisters!

Quick question: what do you say to Uncle Denier at Thanksgiving when he starts in on “climate’s always changed”?

If your answer is a nervous laugh and a plate refill, this workshop’s for you.

Ground. Story. Speak. A TEDx-Style Climate Communications Hour

In 60 fast, fun, genuinely useful minutes, you’ll walk away with:This isn’t a lecture. It’s interactive, it’s quick, and it’s built for coaches who want tools they’ll actually use.

Event description:

For World Pulse Women emerging as climate leaders in your community, built like a TEDx play space, not a lecture. Attendees ground briefly with an Inner Resonance practice, then move through Learn-Do-Share cycles:

~ A 90-second grounding practice you can use with anyone, any session, any moment things get heavy

~ The bones of your 60-second climate story that actually moves a room (not just informs it, moves it)

~ Your very own comeback listens for Uncle Denier, tested and Thanksgiving-approved

~ A structured 1-minute TEDx-style talk, built live, by you, in the room.

~ The session moves to with the “Next Best Thing to Be/Do/Have.”

~ We close briefly referencing the 12×12 research project's FIREWORKS, a current finalist for the 2026 International Coaches Federation Social Impact Emerging Catalyst Award.

Outcomes:

By the end of this hour, you'll leave with three usable tools, not just inspiration:

a 90-second grounding practice you can run before any hard climate conversation;

a repeatable-in-sixty-seconds-flat-story structure you can use to move a family, team, or board; and

a “Denier Judo” technique for reaching climate skeptics without requiring them to already believe in climate change.

Underneath these three tools is the bigger promise, you'll leave able to widen how you serve your community, not just how you feel about serving them, with each tool framed as a tool you can use the same week.

Why now: Every human needs a relateable climate story. This is the hour you find or refine yours.

👉 [Zoom in here.]

Takes 30 seconds, less time than it took Uncle Denier to say “well actually.”

Plugged IN, Charged UP,

Kat

More about me...

I live at the intersection of courage, curiosity, and what I call "humaning better each day." At 2, my family home and hotel burnt to the ground. I shook and woke mymom up yelling panicked, "Moke, 'Moke!

Former Olympic level freestyle skiing aerialist. One of America's first female United States Air Force Academy cadets.

A great-grandmother who drove 15,000 miles across America in a red Tesla named Rouge to prove that range anxiety with preparation is easily managed.

Founder of TRUST Climate Action Strategists, I coach terrified, exhausted, secretly-hopeful humans to stop doom-scrolling and start actually doing something. I am witnessing Grewingk Glacier disappear year after year 98 feet per year from my bedroom window in Alaska for 30 years. I coach climate-concerned global citizens to activate teams, scale impact, and embrace a "fun and done" mindset for climate-responsive living. I coined the term "economology," the place where economy and ecology stop fighting and start dancing with each other, and I mean it literally.

That glacier ghosted me. I take that personally. Now it's your problem too. We are in this together.

I may make you laugh, make you think, and make you slightly ashamed of your carbon footprint while somehow feeling completely loved about it. Is it time to celebrate transforming your guilt-inducing carbon footprint into an action-packed carbon handprint?

As Founding Organizer of TEDxVail, I've produced and coached 800+ Talks with more than 3 million views, and taken TEDx from a Colorado mountain town to global stages including Sydney, Edinburgh, Doha, Mexico City, Kerala, and beyond. My TEDxSydney 2020 sketch note asks the question I ask everywhere: How do we restore life with all our relations? My answer: Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. Reimagine. Regenerate. Respect. Refuse. Remember. (Lots of R's, each well-earned.)

The Charter and multi-term President of the WE Rotary Club of International Peace, District 5000, Hawaiʻi, I helped build a global peace fellowship from scratch, planting Heiwa Hiroshima Survivor peace trees, connecting Peace Fellows worldwide, and hosting biweekly meetings from rest stops while simultaneously driving across the country. Multitasking at what I call "Olympic levels."

As a Digital Empowerment Ambassador with World Pulse, I has mentored global women writers, climate coached award-winning storytellers across dozens of countries, and written in my own gloriously unhinged, deeply sincere voice about what it's like to watch a glacier ghost me from my bedroom window in Homer, Alaska.