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Next Chapter Workshops

The Best Is Yet to Come! Empowerment for Life After 50

Rita’s Workshops

  • The Magic of Gratitude

    Discover the transformative power of gratitude in this uplifting session. Participants explore simple yet profound practices to shift perspective, boost positivity, and create their own personalized Gratitude Journal as a lasting tool for daily inspiration.

  • Your Best is Yet to Come!

    A powerful 90-day program designed to help you reset, refocus, and reignite your life. Through guided strategies and inspiring exercises, Rita empowers participants to build momentum, break old patterns, and step confidently into their next chapter with clarity and purpose.

  • Conversation Starters that Actually work!

    Learn the art of authentic connection with practical tools and confidence-building techniques. This session equips you with conversation starters that open doors, spark opportunities, and help you build meaningful relationships that move you forward.

  • Reinvent Yourself

    Step into your next chapter with clarity and confidence. This empowering workshop includes a guided session to create your own Vision Book—a powerful tool to help you define goals, ignite inspiration, and design the life you truly want.

  • Your Most Awesome Chapter Ever!

    Celebrate your next chapter with purpose and passion! This interactive workshop helps you uncover your strengths, set exciting goals, and take bold steps toward creating the most fulfilling phase of your life yet.

  • Your WOW Years! Supercharge the Second Half of Life

    Transform your second half of life into your most vibrant and fulfilling chapter. This workshop offers practical strategies, inspiring insights, and actionable tools to help you embrace change, ignite passion, and live with purpose and confidence.

Say Yes to Life: Workshop to Reconnect With What You Love.

Over the past 10 years, I’ve helped hundreds of amazing people find their perfect job—and I still get WOW-filled messages from them saying, “I found it!”

At the Reinvent Yourself workshop, we dive into fun, powerful exercises to uncover what you’d truly LOVE to be doing right now.

Maybe your old job once fit... but YOU’VE grown (yay, growth!). And it’s totally okay to want something NEW that lights you up.

We get clear on who you are TODAY and what makes you feel excited NOW. Once we map out your dream job, it’s wild how fast it shows up—like magic!

I LOVE working with people who want to wake up feeling excited every day. Let’s flip fear into F.E.A.R.: Feeling Excited And Ready!

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Your next BEST chapter is ready for you filled with clarity, confidence, and a whole lot of WOW.

Each workshop blends gentle storytelling with Intendo exercises to help you listen to your inner voice and create meaningful change at your own perfect pace.

Available for Vision Book Gatherings, Women’s Conferences, Retreats, Motivational Speaking, and Corporate Programs, helping you create your BEST chapter ever!

Featured Talks & Workshops:

  • The Best Is Yet to Come: 90 Days to a New You

  • Rewrite Your Story, Reignite Your Spark

  • Breakdown to Breakthrough

  • My Rocky Road to Self Esteem

  • Supercharge the Second Half of Life

Let’s unlock your WOW moment together!

  • Interactive workshops designed to help participants create a powerful vision for their future. Rita guides groups through reflective exercises and practical tools to bring clarity, inspiration, and momentum to the second half of life.

  • Dynamic, empowering sessions tailored for women ready to embrace their next chapter. Rita inspires audiences with actionable insights, helping women discover confidence, resilience, and renewed purpose.

  • Engaging and motivational keynote presentations based on Rita’s bestselling book, Your Wow Years. Her talks are filled with humor, wisdom, and practical strategies to supercharge life’s second half.

  • Custom programs designed for teams and organizations seeking inspiration and performance growth. Rita equips employees with strategies to improve mindset, motivation, and communication for long-term success.

What my students think.

  • "Rita Connor and Mai Lai presented a terrific two-part workshop at WHW, a non-profit employment readiness program in Orange County, CA. Job seekers often struggle to “see” their future and ideal job, but Rita’s presentation was eye-opening and inspiring. I looked around and saw everyone having “Ah Hah!” moments! Mai Lai elevated the experience by guiding clients in creating “vision books,” sharing powerful examples from her own life. I’ve never seen a group so engaged and passionate—this workshop was AMAZING!"

    Brenda Walters, WHW - Program Manager – Education Women Helping Women, Santa Ana

  • "The Reinvent Yourself Workshop was a HUGE SUCCESS! Rita was fantastic!. All amazing attendees. Thank you so much for putting together this amazing life changing event. It was off the charts and “the ripples on the pond” continue forever. Thanks! "

    Joni C.

  • "Thanks so much for sharing one of your Reinvent Yourself workshops with me yesterday. We sure enjoyed it and Rita did a GREAT job and her presentation was very professional. I liked the powerpoint, sayings and materials. The fellow attendees were really nice too. Thanks so much for the workbooks. So much to think about! Thank you, thank you, thank you! "

    Moira P.

  • "Thank you so much for the opportunity to experience your “Reinvent Yourself” workshop! I feel blessed to have been a part of it-- my life is forever changed—for the better! Rita left me with so many takeaways…I have committed to doing something NEW and Brave every day! I hope we have the opportunity to meet again! "

    Charlotte P.

  • "Rita was really great today. Very natural, fun, inspirational and beautiful! It was the best and my favorite seminar I have ever been to! I would love to do a follow-up to Reinvent Yourself! Thank you for the best day ever! My heart needed that. I feel inspired, hopeful, successful, purposeful, enthusiastic and grateful!"

    Suzanne

  • "Hello Rita, You were so nice and helpful. I came out of the workshop so very excited. I acquired additional magazines to work on my Vision Book. I plan on using poster board and place them on the walls of my bedroom. I also wanted to tell you that I have an interview tomorrow!"

    Elaine Fierro 

  • "Hello Rita, It was nice meeting you on Friday as well. Thank you for sharing your thoughts, experiences and knowledge with all of us. Your enthusiasm, energy and positive attitude was so uplifting and contagious. I left your workshop feeling happier, hopeful and inspired. You are awesome! "

    Janice Tanaka

  • "I thoroughly enjoyed meeting Rita Connor and hearing her presentation at Women Helping Women on Tuesday. I am sure everyone there gained some insight to help them through their journey. "

    Ruth G.

For anyone who’s ever felt stuck in the wrong job, career or life rut.

Four pages of a workbook or worksheet titled '5 Questions That Matter' with a light green design, featuring questions and spaces for writing responses, designed to help reflect on life and next steps.

“ If I’d have known in the beginning wat would happen in the end, I would have prayed for it.”

- Diana Loomans