Speaking A story that stops the room. A message that stays.
Shawn Casey does not give motivational speeches. He tells the truth. Forty years of lived experience — addiction, survival, rock bottom, and real transformation — delivered in a way that makes audiences feel genuinely understood.
What If Your Greatest Breakdown is Divine Intervention?
The keynote built from Gift of Addiction. Shawn’s personal story and the framework that transformed his life — leaving audiences with a new understanding of addiction, trauma, and what healing actually looks like.
Healing the Root — A New Approach to Addiction and Recovery
For healthcare and wellness audiences. Why willpower-based approaches fail and what changes when we treat the cause instead of the symptom.
Turn Your Pain Into Your Purpose
For leadership and personal development audiences. How the most difficult chapters of a life become the foundation for the most meaningful work.
What I Wish Someone Had Told Me at Sixteen
A keynote for middle school, high school, and university audiences. Shawn left home at sixteen, carrying pain he could not yet name. He speaks to young people about where destructive patterns really begin, why no one is broken beyond repair, and how to reach for help before the hardest years take hold.
Age-appropriate, prevention-focused, and delivered in coordination with your counseling and student-support staff.
What students take away:
- Pain has roots — and naming it early changes everything
- You are not broken, and you are not your worst moment
- Asking for help is a sign of strength, not weakness
- The story you were handed is not the one you have to live
Keynote (45–60 min) · Half-day 5 Pillars workshop · Fireside chat + audience Q&A · Virtual
- A new framework for understanding addiction and destructive patterns
- Practical tools they can begin using the same day
- The feeling of being genuinely seen and understood
- Hope — earned, specific, and real
Shawn is the author of Gift of Addiction: When Hitting Rock Bottom Awakens Your Soul and has spent nearly four decades at the intersection of physical wellness, emotional healing, and personal transformation. Thirty-seven years into his own recovery, he speaks not from theory but from a life rebuilt — and gives audiences the tools to begin rebuilding their own.
Book Shawn for Your Event
Shawn speaks at conferences, corporate events, treatment centers, schools and universities, fundraisers, and private gatherings.
Every room holds someone who is quietly waiting for permission to begin. Shawn’s story gives them that permission — and the first steps to act on it. You were not born to survive.
You were born to come home to your true self.