Dr. Michaela Johnson Relationship Expert

You're Not Broken - Let Me Show You Why Not In 15 Minutes.

Key Topics
The Confidence Code: Why Some Stay Silent, Others Overshare, and Everyone Wants to Be Seen
Untriggered: Navigating Emotional Reactivity
The 7 Primal Wounds Sabotaging Your Workplace—and What to Do About It
Talk Description
If your team struggles with communication breakdowns, emotional tension, or disengagement—this keynote reveals what’s happening beneath the surface.
This is not just another personality framework or EQ seminar.
It’s a raw, insightful, and research-backed look at the 7 Primal Wounds—identity-level narratives wired into our nervous systems from early life that quietly shape how people show up in professional environments.
The “I’m not smart enough” wound? That’s why someone won’t speak up in meetings.
The “I’m insignificant” wound? It’s why others overshare or overcompensate.
The “I don’t belong” wound? That team member may constantly feel excluded, no matter how included they are.
These emotional patterns run silently in the background—until they’re recognized and named.
What Your Audience Will Learn
How to identify pre-trigger signals that derail communication
Why even high-performers can be reactive or avoidant under pressure
The real reason confidence and clarity collapse under stress—and how to restore them
A framework for managing emotional triggers with insight rather than instinct
How to build safer, more effective, and more connected teams by understanding the emotional software running underneath behavior
This talk introduces the PRIMAL Response System—a practical model of Pre-Activations, Primal Wounds, and Primal Responders that gives people the tools to respond instead of react.
It’s not about “fixing” people. It’s about teaching them to understand the old patterns that drive their present behavior—so they can choose a better way forward.
Best For
Leadership development
Culture and communication initiatives
Belonging programs
Wellness and resilience events
Professional growth or women-in-leadership summits
Final Takeaway
You're not too much, too quiet, or too reactive. You're just responding from an outdated script. Let's rewrite it—with clarity, compassion, and confidence.
What to expect: Brene Brown meets Amelia Earhart.

Brainy & sass with a skosh of badass.
I’m a commercial seaplane pilot and practicing couples therapist who delivers hard truths wrapped in humor and heart. If you want an authentic speaker who makes people laugh and look inward, I’m your girl. I bring neuroscience, storytelling, and a dash of sass to the stage—from being raised in a 27' fifth wheel with no running water and electricity in the rural Sierra Nevadas, to winning an air race in the slowest airplane and managing an in flight emergency. Life gets turbulent. And I’ll show your audience how to fly through it with more confidence, connection, and courage.
When I speak, your audience will walk away with:

Dr. Michaela Renee is a commercial seaplane pilot, couples therapist, bestselling author, and national speaker who helps audiences break toxic patterns and finally feel confident in relationships—and in life. She’s the author of Get Naked: Exposing the Primal Wounds That Sabotage Your Life and host of the top-rated podcast SkyTalkDoc.

Her groundbreaking work on primal wounds and the nervous system bridges neuroscience, psychology, and storytelling to make deep emotional healing feel approachable and actionable. Whether she’s speaking on stage, navigating an emergency landing, or flying across the U.S. for her aerial book tour, Michaela brings bold insights, real humor, and heart to everything she does.

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On Instagram @skytalkdoc

If Michaela is the Keynote she prefers to have any Q&A held after.