Speaking, Workshops & Events
Two ways to hear Hollie in a room: invite her to yours, or come along to one of hers. Twenty years in broadcasting means she knows how to hold a microphone — and a room.
Book Hollie to Speak
Community talks, keynotes and women's events, tailored to your group — and reliably funnier than the brief suggests.
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Writing workshops, creative sessions and author readings around Nevada County — plus what's coming up next.
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Hollie spent two decades in the media industry as an award-winning on-air radio talent, then years more as a newspaper columnist — she's built for a stage and a live audience, not just a page. Her talks pull directly from They Aren't Even Trying Anymore: candid, self-deprecating, and genuinely funny about the parts of getting older nobody wants to say out loud. Audiences leave with permission to laugh at themselves — and to talk about it with each other.
Topics
Every talk is tailored to your group, but these are Hollie's home turf.
Getting Older Out Loud
A funny, honest keynote on the body's midlife plot twists — built from the book's 26 essays.
Finding the Funny in the Hard Stuff
How humor becomes a survival skill through aging, loss, and everything in between.
Reinvention After 50
On decades, divorce, blended families, career pivots, and figuring out who you are next.