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April Day Garcia

Author • Speaker • Story-Led Transformation

Helping audiences step back into the rooms they’ve avoided, so they can walk forward with courage and clarity.

In Conversation & Featured Media

Sharing Out Loud with Heather Danby

April Day Garcia joins Sharing Out Loud for an honest conversation about her memoir, sobriety, perimenopause, and the courage it takes to tell your story out loud.
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A Sober Girls Guide with Jessica Jeboult

In this conversation, April reflects on her “BS self” (before sober), choosing an alcohol-free life, and the clarity, presence, and identity shifts that came with sobriety and motherhood.
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Topics April Covers

Rooms We Run From
How unaddressed memory rooms show up in life, work, and relationships.

Courage Without Drama
What real bravery looks like — consistent showing-up, not performative transformation.

Memory as Architecture
How our past constructs internal spaces that shape choices and identity.

Real Healing is Slow
Why discomfort is part of progress — and how to hold it.

Formats Available

  • Keynote

  • Workshop

  • Panel Conversations

  • Breakout Sessions

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Why She Speaks

April doesn’t speak about adversity—she speaks from it. Her work centers on the idea that healing doesn’t mean forgetting or closing doors, but learning to open them with honesty, breath by breath.

Her journey—from surviving a near-death event, navigating chronic illness, addiction, family rupture, and loss—informs a voice that meets audiences where they already are.

Your audience should think: She’s someone who’s lived this—not someone selling a formula.

Your audience will walk away with:

✔ A clearer understanding of how their past shapes their present
✔ A vocabulary for emotional courage without overwhelm
✔ Tools for living inside complexity
✔ A sense of belonging — not just motivation

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