TEDxBeverlyGrove 2026 REIMAGINING THE POSSIBLE

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Our thanks to The Lawyers Roundtable, Emerge Global, Playful Sovereign Dating, Los Angeles Magazine, Prince Marketing, Trade Ambassadors, Venbrook, ByteSize, Mendocino Farms, Ministry of Coffee, Sip with Moonlight, Luins and Maureen Williams, and 360WebTech.

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9:00 AM

9:45 AM

45:00

Doors open / guest arrival

Front of House

Coffee & baked goods service; Ministry of Coffee

9:45 AM

9:55 AM

10:00

House open / seating push

Front of House

Begin seating; guests are encourage into theater.

9:55 AM

10:00 AM

5:00

Opening welcome + sponsor acknowledgment

Theme frame, room expectations, opening sponsor acknowledgment.

10:00 AM

10:15 AM

15:00

Talk 1

Is Your Success Just an Illusion?

10:15 AM

10:19 AM

4:00

Changeover

Production

Reset stage / next speaker walk-on.

10:19 AM

10:32 AM

13:00

Talk 2

Shelby Harris, PsyD, DBSM

We Broke Sleep and Didn't Realize It.

10:32 AM

10:36 AM

4:00

Changeover

Production

Reset stage / next speaker walk-on.

10:36 AM

10:51 AM

15:00

Talk 3

Paralysis Is a State of Mind: How Meaning Shapes What's Possible..

10:51 AM

10:52 AM

1:00

Sponsor acknowledgment / intermission release

Brief sponsor acknowledgment before first intermission.

10:52 AM

11:07 AM

15:00

Intermission

Front of House

Lobby reset / restroom / coffee.

11:07 AM

11:17 AM

10:00

Talk 4

The Identity First Rule.

11:17 AM

11:21 AM

4:00

Changeover

Production

Reset stage / next speaker walk-on.

11:21 AM

11:36 AM

15:00

Talk 5

Aaron Michael Krinsky

Complexity Is the Enemy of Care.

11:36 AM

11:40 AM

4:00

Changeover

Production

Reset stage / next speaker walk-on.

11:40 AM

11:58 AM

18:00

Talk 6

Mental Bulkheads: Why the Olympic Survived and the Titanic Didn't.

11:58 AM

11:58:30 AM

0:30

Sponsor acknowledgment + Better Youth setup

Brief sponsor acknowledgment and setup only.

11:58:30 AM

12:00 PM

1:30

Better Youth video

Playback

What is Better Youth?

12:00 PM

12:05 PM

5:00

Talk 7

Shift Happens

12:05 PM

1:03 PM

58:00

Lunch

Hospitality

Lunch service; Mendocino Farms, Sip With Moonlight

1:03 PM

1:04 PM

1:00

Return to seats + sponsor acknowledgment

Call room back and acknowledge sponsors at top of second half.

1:04 PM

1:16 PM

12:00

Talk 8

Surrounded by Connection, Starved for Closeness.

1:16 PM

1:20 PM

4:00

Changeover

Production

Reset stage / next speaker walk-on.

1:20 PM

1:31 PM

11:00

Talk 9

Isaac Jean-Paul

We Don't Handicap People. We Handicap Environments.

1:31 PM

1:35 PM

4:00

Changeover

Production

Reset stage / next speaker walk-on.

1:35 PM

1:53 PM

18:00

Talk 10

Shannon Fernando, MSN-FNP-C

The Permission Principle.

1:53 PM

1:57 PM

4:00

Changeover

Production

Reset stage / next speaker walk-on.

1:57 PM

2:09:30 PM

12:30

Talk 11 (prerecorded stream)

Jeremiah O’Brien

My Dad Rocky: A Hero's Journey

2:09:30 PM

2:10 PM

0:30

MC handoff

Royal introduces Publisher & President of Los Angeles Mag

2:11:30 PM

2:23:30 PM

12:00

Talk 12 / closer

Chef Aitor Zabala

The One More Day Principle

2:23:30 PM

2:30:30 PM

7:00

Closing

Final sponsor acknowledgment + gratitude + dismissal.

2:30:30 PM

3:00 PM

29:30

Lobby / press / sponsor conversations

Front of House

Cocktail Reception; ServPro, Legaci Tomorrow