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Some rebuild.
Others repeat.
Guiding people to reconstruct better after life's hardest setbacks.
EMMY AWARD WINNER • DUPONT COLUMBIA AWARD • EDWARD R. MURROW AWARD • NSA MEMBER • AUTHOR
Indiana Court Services Conference
Media Feature
Las Vegas
Keynote Topics
Same Glass, Higher Stakes
Wonder why alcohol hits women harder?
Nobody told you the rules weren't the same. This keynote changes that.
Equal pours don't mean equal risk.
Through an interactive demonstration, built for audience participation, you'll see the science every woman deserves to know. Why the same drink produces a different outcome, the increased health risks and how to recognize life-saving warning signs before they become life-altering consequences.
The five-beam reconstruction framework reveals how to rewire faulty internal systems. Combines biological research with lived experience.
Attendees leave with a personal audit scorecard and a blueprint to rebuild stronger than before and a new reconstruction mindset to make healthier choices and support women around them. Uses visual props and guided exercises to restore stability.
From Lost to Leader
Life swings.
You survive impact. Now what?
This keynote begins after the crash, when getting by isn't enough anymore.
Through an immersive demonstration built for audience participation, you'll discover how to recognize hidden cracks before they become bigger problems, replace survival with intentional reconstruction, analyze failure, rebuild trust after mistakes and influence with purpose.
Attendees leave with the STILL STANDING™ five-beam Reconstruction Framework and a personal audit scorecard and measurable, repeatable tools for restoring stability. Uses visual props and guided exercises.
Setback doesn't define your future, what you rebuild after it will.
Turn the rubble of impact into the foundation of reconstruction.
Some Rebuild, Others Repeat
The difference?
Knowing how to tell real change from rehearsed compliance and reduce destructive patterns.
This dynamic, interactive keynote equips court professionals, probation officers, and treatment teams with the STILL STANDING™ five-beam Reconstruction Framework.
It demonstrates how to detect authentic behavioral change, identify hidden structural risk before it becomes repeat offending, and make more informed case management decisions to improve long-term outcomes and public safety.
Attendees leave with a reconstruction blueprint, a personal assessment scorecard, and actionable tools to inspect the invisible structure that predicts whether someone rebuilds or repeats.
Why Beth
Beth McDonough is an author, keynote speaker, sober advocate, and creator of the STILL STANDING™ Method: The Reconstruction of Life After Impact.
The trademarked IP system she developed equips people and organizations to move beyond your worst moments, build back stronger after failure, when the stakes are high, consequences are real, the world is watching and the path forward is unclear.
Her keynotes move audiences from passive listeners to active architects.
She treats rebuilding like a construction project. Attendees watch ideas unfold in front of you, experience them in your own bodies, and remember them long after the conference ends. Through live demonstrations, visual props, building a five-beam structure on stage, immersive participation, and an action-based personal audit, attendees score themselves in real time.
By the end, participants will be able to distinguish resilience from reconstruction, recognize hidden structural weaknesses before they become full-blown crises, replace destructive patterns with new internal systems, focus on structural integrity, identify the weakest beam affecting your capacity to serve yourself and others, develop one specific time-bound action to take to restore trust, reputation, credibility and create a future that is better than the life you lost. Reconstruction becomes lunchtime conversation and a method you can implement on Monday morning.
Beth believes resilience gets you through trauma & adversity. Reconstruction determines what rises in its place.
She lived it: the method was battle tested in real life before she taught it on stage.
After two highly publicized DUIs, losing her news career and just about everything else, Beth discovered that healing isn't about returning to who you were. The goal is to build who you are becoming.
That journey became the foundation for STILL STANDING™, which combines lived-experience, behavioral psychology, trauma-informed principles, accountability and evidence-based practices into a measurable, repeatable, process.
Before becoming the headline, Beth spent 30 years as an investigative journalist covering many of the nation's defining moments including: the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Oklahoma City bombing, the I-35W bridge collapse, Prince's death, the escape of kidnapping survivor Jayme Closs where she contracted chronic Lyme Disease while on assignment, and the civil unrest following George Floyd's murder, where she was wounded while reporting.
She's appeared on CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX News, and hundreds of television, radio, podcast, newspaper, and magazine interviews. She has earned Emmy Awards, an Edward R. Murrow Award, and the prestigious duPont-Columbia Journalism Award: considered the Pulitzer Prize of broadcast journalism. She's a member of the National Speaker's Association and Stage Time University.
She was featured with Elizabeth Smart in the Lifetime documentary "Smart Justice: The Jayme Closs Case."
Broadcasting live, interviewing people in crisis, moderating difficult conversations and translating complex information for broad audiences taught her how to read a room, adjust in real time and create trust around sensitive subjects.
Beth is the author of two memoirs: STANDBY relives her public downfall and STILL STANDING™ takes you behind the front lines of crime reporting, into the wreckage and reconstruction of her own life. She exposes how decades of breaking-news assignments, life-altering illness and her own public collapse shaped STILL.
Her journalism background and experience on both sides of the law give Beth rare perspective and unique training to recognize patterns others overlook. She empowers people to make more effective decisions by inspecting systems instead of reacting to symptoms. She combines compelling storytelling, investigative insight, and a proven framework together.
Her message resonates across women's wellness, legal & court systems, recovery communities, corporations, human resources, professional groups, leadership seminars, healthcare agencies, educational programs and non-profits.
She's presented and facilitated programs for small, discussion-based workshops to breakout sessions, to a 2,000-person seminar at Indiana's annual convention for justice and court professionals. She's hosted recovery-focused events at Hazelden Betty Ford, led cohorts at Kiln coworking communities and spoken at hundreds of school, charitable and nonprofit events while maintaining psychological safety and a clear focus on practical outcomes.
Her television & emcee background allow pre-event support and promotion, media interviews, video content and post-event conversation.
Collapse is an event. Reconstruction becomes legacy.
Life After Impact starts here!
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