Celebrity Speaker * Entertainer * Personal Excellence Mentor
When a Hagyard Family name search revealed Viking roots, Abby Hagyard realized that her navigator-storyteller skills were deeply rooted in her DNA. With no compasses to guide them on dark, forbidding seas, the Vikings had created new lives on far-distant shores. Similarly, when her parents’ deaths set her adrift, Abby began her own quest.
The transient life of a military BRAT had taught Abby how to capture the moment NOW. When she sailed into the world of entertainment, she did it under full sail. In five years, she’d had starring roles in Radio, syndicated Television, Film and Stage.
Seeing Opportunity during a film and TV production lull, Abby launched an executive class publishing service, catering to career people with deeply personal stories to tell.
While they were experts in their chosen fields, none of their training or years of experience had prepared them for the crushing stress when personal burdens drained their vital energies and robbed them of their passion and their purpose.
Abby calls them her “Executive Class.” Her guidance in helping them shape their stories and strategies is rooted in her Pivotry principles: Each book they put their names to is a diploma of sorts, as they come to understand the cost that had come with wearing so many hats.
Who is a member of Abby’s Executive Class?
You are. You’re a decision-maker. Your actions shape lives. To wear your many hats, you put your own life on hold daily. Your toxic stress is a double-threat blend of personal trauma and executive grief. When you hit the wall that takes you down, you have nothing left in your reserves to find your way back.
Your Pivotry recovery path – from Overwhelm to Ahhh to AHA – is a mindset reset that rekindles your endless passion and driving purpose and gives you the tools to reclaim your dreams.
Pivotry In Motion: We’ve all known that moment when we took that deep breath and made that bold shift … that pivot that changed everything. What we seldom think about is the moment before that moment … that eye-blink when our mindset switched from same-old/same-old to What if…?
Our What if…? is the trigger that activates our innate ability to adapt and thrive: to step back from the instinct to panic and plant our flag on the high ground. We do this by profile matching. Profile matching (think of a chameleon) allows us to see the thing that’s coming… and see our best chance to make it OUR thing… by choosing the best version of us to redirect the toxic energy and disrupt the flowing emotions.
In this power-owner mindset, we have the ability to step back, see the big picture and breathe. With a clear head, we can reset the pace, redefine our purpose and refocus our priorities. The versions of us we choose for these roles are stored in our memory. How we find them is a process of recognition and retrieval. With practice, we get our ‘self’ back. With success, our confidence grows. And we are again the person we’ve always known.
Pivotry Mindset Reset Techniques are a blend of behavioral adaptation tools and thrive-beyond-survival skills that include personal and career profile matching, big-picture prioritizing, neuroplasticity reset-recall, energetic monitoring and trauma-alert pattern interrupts that allow you to shield yourself and/or navigate hidden triggers to achieve lasting change.
Yes? or No?
Is the story you’re trying to live by a joy-vampire that leaves you with nothing but crippling self-doubt?
Are the people you try so hard to please even remotely please-able?
Do you exhaust yourself to keep on keeping on?
Has It’s not that bad become Not good enough?
Are You Ready To Find Your Way Back?
My Life, Career and Brand Resets re-ignite your fading passions
My Strategic Self-Storytelling Techniques frame your new “I’m walking here” tale
My Stress, Grief and Loss Consulting is your bridge from “Who I was” to “Who I am”