April Day Garcia
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April Day Garcia helps audiences reconnect to their worth, redefine the spaces they belong in, and build lives that feel fully their own.
Author of The Room to Be Brave | Speaker
“Powerful. Beautiful. Thoughtful. Insightful. Groundbreaking. The words were literally packed with meaning and symbolism. Well-crafted and professionally presented.”
— Step Up to the Mic Podcast, February 2026
Hi, my name is April Day Garcia, and I help people step into their value and stop shrinking to fit the room by speaking about courage, self-worth, and what it means to live fully and unapologetically.
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Now booking for 2026
In Conversation & Featured Media
🎙 A Sober Girls Guide
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🎙 Sharing Out Loud with Heather Danby Listen to Episode
🎙 Lifestories Podcast
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🎙 Step Up to the Mic
Praised as “Powerful. Beautiful. Insightful. Groundbreaking.”
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🎙 Answers with Alison
Featured guest. Episode releasing Spring 2026.
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April Day Garcia speaks about the rooms we've been avoiding — and what happens to our lives when we finally walk back in.
Her talks draw from her own story: addiction, recovery, reinvention, and the slow, sometimes messy work of stopping letting old wounds write the rules. She's not just a speaker. She's someone who has actually done the thing she's asking audiences to consider.
She's the author of The Room to Be Brave and the founder of the Find Your Joy Project. She lives on Long Island with her husband and daughter and a very strong opinion that real living doesn't start until you stop outsourcing your joy.
Audiences leave her talks feeling seen — and like they have actual permission to begin again.
Her work has been described as grounded, poetic, and powerfully human.
Signature Keynote — The Room to Be Brave
A keynote on emotional courage, healing, and becoming the person you were meant to be.
Most of us got really good at being whoever the room needed us to be.
Smaller. Quieter. Easier. We adapted. We survived. And then we walked out and carried all of it with us like we were supposed to — the beliefs, the roles, the story about who we are and what we deserve.
Here's the thing nobody tells you: leaving the room doesn't mean it stops running the show.
In this signature talk, April Day Garcia takes audiences back into the rooms that shaped them — not to wallow, not to assign blame, but to finally see them for what they actually were. Because when you can look at where a belief came from, you get to decide whether it's still true.
Most of the time, it isn't.
This talk is for anyone who has ever wondered why they keep ending up in the same situations, feeling the same feelings, making the same choices — and is ready for a different answer than "that's just who I am."
Audiences leave with:
A framework for identifying the beliefs they formed in survival — and questioning whether they're still serving them
Permission to go back into the hard stuff without being swallowed by it
A concrete understanding of how the rooms we stop entering keep quietly running our lives — and how to change that
Best for: Women's events, recovery and wellness organizations, leadership and personal development conferences, libraries, and anyone gathering people who are ready to stop living by rules they didn't consciously choose.
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