START THE SHIFT

Bridge Success and Fulfillment

You didn’t build your business to feel trapped by it. After decades of designing homes, companies, and relationships that last, Justin M. Riordan knows what it feels like to have success that looks great from the outside but feels hollow on the inside. Start the Shift invites entrepreneurs to redesign the systems of their lives using emotional intelligence as the blueprint. With candor, humor, and real-world tools from his Relationable Toolkit, Justin shows leaders how to replace control with trust, chaos with clarity, and stress with ease. This talk is an honest, energizing reminder that freedom doesn’t come from more achievement, but from better alignment. It is time to start the shift from being owned by your business to owning your joy again.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

1. Understand

  • Explain how emotional intelligence serves as the foundation for sustainable success and personal fulfillment.

  • Recognize the emotional patterns that keep entrepreneurs stuck in “success prison” and identify early signs of burnout, disconnection, and isolation.

2. Analyze

  • Examine the difference between external achievement and internal alignment, using real-world examples from leadership, entrepreneurship, and relationships.

  • Identify how unspoken fears and control-based systems limit creativity, connection, and long-term satisfaction.

3. Apply

  • Use tools from The Relationable Toolkit to redesign daily habits, leadership styles, and relationship systems to support emotional health and balance.

  • Practice actionable strategies for shifting from reactivity to responsiveness, building trust, and improving communication in teams and partnerships.

4. Evaluate and Integrate (for workshops or extended formats)

  • Assess how current systems of success either support or sabotage fulfillment, and implement adjustments that restore clarity and purpose.

  • Integrate relational and emotional frameworks into business culture to sustain growth without sacrificing well-being.

In summary:

Start the Shift helps entrepreneurs understand how emotional intelligence bridges the gap between success and satisfaction. Through relatable stories and field-tested tools, participants learn to transform stress into self-awareness and pressure into peace. This keynote is not about doing more; it is about doing what matters… with clarity, connection, and authenticity.

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