{"id":959,"date":"2015-05-08T14:53:59","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T21:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silverladder.com\/blog\/?p=959"},"modified":"2015-06-05T14:54:28","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T21:54:28","slug":"my-first-keynote-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverladder.com\/blog\/?p=959","title":{"rendered":"My First Keynote Address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I had the opportunity to deliver my first-ever keynote address, speaking at the CorVel Coporation&#8217;s annual spring seminar.  CorVel works in the area of worker&#8217;s comp, among other areas.  This year&#8217;s seminar theme revolved around the epidemic of opiate painkiller abuse in the U.S. as it relates to worker&#8217;s comp cases.  Given my personal drug history, and my path to heroin addiction that started with prescription painkiller abuse, they felt I&#8217;d be an ideal candidate to end the day with a very personal, human presentation.  I spoke on my experience with addiction and recovery, and my current work in the field of prevention.<\/p>\n<p>My keynote address went very well and the response was excellent. The Q&#038;A session featured a lot of very insightful questions. I had several people come up to me afterward to thank me, shake my hand, and congratulate me. I even got a hug. The individual who invited me to speak said my speech exceeded her expectations and meet the company&#8217;s needs perfectly. <\/p>\n<p>What an awesome opportunity. I&#8217;m grateful.<\/p>\n<p><IMG SRC=\"http:\/\/silverladder.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Corvel1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><IMG SRC=\"http:\/\/silverladder.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Corvel2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I had the opportunity to deliver my first-ever keynote address, speaking at the CorVel Coporation&#8217;s annual spring seminar. CorVel works in the area of worker&#8217;s comp, among other areas. This year&#8217;s seminar theme revolved &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[524,616],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverladder.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverladder.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverladder.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverladder.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverladder.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/silverladder.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":960,"href":"https:\/\/silverladder.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions\/960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverladder.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverladder.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverladder.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverladder.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}