Embracethe Hit

Speaking

Don't
flinch

Twenty years on live television, three seasons on a skeleton track, and a decade of runs I did not choose. I speak about what happens in the half-second before the wall.

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Courtney Spencer speaking to a room
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Background

  • National TV host, CBS Deals on CBS Mornings
  • Former QVC program host — 1 of 24 selected from 17,000+ applicants, live to 1M+ homes
  • Co-founder, MYX Fitness (acquired by Beachbody)
  • News anchor and reporter, Waco, Texas
  • USA Skeleton athlete · BA Journalism, Baylor University
  • BYU Education Week presenter

The talks

I speak to two kinds of rooms — corporate and conference stages, and congregations and faith gatherings. I am the same person in either. What changes is where the emphasis lands, not what is true.

For conferences and organizations

  • Don't Flinch

    The half-second before impact is the only part you control. What an Olympic sport teaches about performing under pressure you didn't schedule — and why bracing is the most expensive instinct on the team.

  • The Wall Is Not the Enemy

    Setbacks, reorganizations, lost funding, the deal that dies in week eleven. How to read a hit as information rather than verdict, and get spat out onto a better line.

  • Dead Last, and Going Back

    I finished last at my first combine and drove home humiliated. On showing up unqualified, the compounding return of doing it again, and why the best leaders are first willing followers.

For congregations and faith gatherings

  • Embrace the Hit with Jesus Christ

    My coach's three words, and the sentence Heavenly Father added to them one night after practice. With Him, the wall does not hold you as long.

  • When Your Faith Has Holes in It

    Perfect faith was never the requirement. On enduring, instant gratification as a leech, and what changed when I stopped reaching for the sticker-solution.

  • I Need You. To Do More.

    An answer to prayer I misheard for a year, and the punctuation shift that turned a demand into an invitation.

The hardest part is showing up.

Said to me by a stranger at a table of Olympic athletes, an hour after I finished dead last. I have been repeating it ever since.

What you get

Formats

Keynote, fireside, panel

20 to 60 minutes, with or without Q&A. Workshop versions available for leadership groups and youth programs.

Preparation

A call before, not a script

We talk about your room, your theme, and what your people are carrying. The talk gets tailored. I send promo copy, a headshot, and a spoken introduction ahead of time.

Logistics

Travels from St. George, Utah

Regional and national dates. Books can be made available for sale or signing at the event.

Inquiries

Tell me about your event

Email courtney@cnicventures.com with your date, location, audience, and what your room is carrying right now. I answer every inquiry myself.