Need a speaker who can wake you up? With laugh-ins, workshops, keynotes and articles, Pat Snyder, a lawyer, humor columnist, and certified laughter leader, keeps things moving with her happy secrets of using humor and laughter to stimulate creativity and life balance at home and at work.
For a decade, her humor column Balancing Act has disclosed the challenges in her own overbooked life as a lawyer, mom, and caregiver/only daughter. The column, which appears in a chain of 22 weekly papers in the Columbus, Ohio area, where she lives, is now also available to subscribers online, on the air and to print media outside the Columbus area.
These tales from the trenches, as well as fun tips for taking control, take center stage in her first book, The Dog Ate My Planner : Tales And Tips From An Overbooked Life, which was released in September 2009.
Pat offers workshops, speeches and laugh-ins, to help others laugh their way through life’s obstacles and find time for joy in their lives. She tailors special stress relief programs for busy professionals, sandwich generation caregivers and anyone else with too much on their plates.
She invites web visitors to contribute their own tales and survival tips on her blog, The Dog Journal.
Announcements
Newsletter Gets All Star Award
March 13th, 2010Pat’s “Balancing Tips” newsletter has won a 2010 Constant Contact All Star Award for reliability and popularity among readers.
Kudos for Column
January 4th, 2010Pat was named a semi-finalist in the most recent “America’s Funniest Humor!” Writing Contest, sponsored by HumorPress.com The column, “I’m Just Not Ready For Thirty,” will be featured in the current online showcase of humor, through February.
Pat's Latest Column
Giving multitasking the (black Velcro) boot
March 12th, 2010Thanks to the third toe on my left foot, I’m finally following the experts’ advice and giving multitasking the boot.
I owe this bit of wisdom to the clunky black Velcro’d one the surgeon handed me after a 30-minute procedure to straighten the demon toe.
“No weight on the foot,” he said soberly, and left me to figure out the details.
Speeches & Workshops
Pat offers a choice of two- to four-hour interactive workshops on humor-related topics. Sign up for a workshop and learn how to write funny, or control stress and spark creativity through humor. Also, check out her speech topics.
Certified Laughter Leader Activities
Laughter for Lawyers, Laughter for Caregivers and Laughter for Birthdays and Retirement Parties are three of Pat’s offerings as a certified laughter leader through the World Laughter Tour. The video below shows a recent laughter session at St. Brendan's Church in Hilliard.
Learn more about Laughter Sessions.
