Adversity gets all the airtime.

 

Beth McDonough expands the conversation to confront the morning after, when the news crews leave, the sympathy runs out, and you're the only one left holding a hammer.

 

An Emmy, Edward R. Murrow, duPont-Columbia and Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist, Beth, spent three decades reporting from the center of crisis. Her assignments included 9/11, the Oklahoma City bombing, the I-35W bridge collapse, Prince’s death, the escape of kidnapping survivor Jayme Closs, and the murder of George Floyd along with the civil unrest that followed. She was wounded while reporting during a riot.

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She learned to read a room and hold people’s attention when the subject was difficult, personal, or painful.

Then Beth’s own life collapsed: in public.

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Two DUI arrests cost her coveted career, credibility, and identity she spent decades building. But the hardest part began after she survived impact.

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Resilience helps people get through tough times. Reconstruction determines what you rebuild after the dust settles.

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Beth transformed her own lived-experience into STILL STANDING™ a five-beam method for creating lasting transformation after life takes a swing.

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Her keynotes turn that framework into an immersive experience.

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Beth builds the structure live onstage while attendees examine their own infrastructure. Volunteers engage to help prove a point. Through the compelling storytelling , visual demonstrations, audience interaction,  props and a personal audit scored in real-time, she guides attendees through five essential inspections. 

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For event planners, that makes Beth’s system especially valuable for creating emotional connections and moves people to action.  She brings the unique combination of investigation precision, decades of reading hidden patterns, asking unique questions that uncover what people aren’t saying, and translating complex systems.

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Each keynote is adapted for individuals, leadership conferences, corporations, women & workplace wellness, non-profit associations, educational agencies, justice + courts and recovery communities.

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Beth is the author of two books: STANDBY  &  STILL STANDING: The Reconstruction of Self, which takes readers behind the crime-scene tape of her gritty reporting career and exposes the private work of repairing her  damaged life. She has appeared on CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX News, along with countless podcast, newspaper, magazine, radio and digital interviews.  She was also featured alongside abduction survivor Elizabeth Smart in the Lifetime documentary Smart Justice: The Jayme Closs Case.

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Beth brings the stagecraft of a broadcast producer who knows how to keep a crowd with her.  She speaks from 18 years of deliberate, documented reconstruction.

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She hands people a detailed behavior-change blueprint to repeatedly use long after the event ends.  

Her keynotes create the shift.  Her workshops develop the plan. Beth's books deepen the understanding. The Rebuild Lab app helps you continue the work.

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Find your footing before you find your future.