Equipping audiences to rise and lead .

This was more than a speech — it was the beginning.

Delivered in 2018 at the Nova Scotia Leadership Prayer Breakfast, this marked the first time I publicly shared my story — in a room filled with civic leaders, politicians, clergy, and changemakers.

I couldn’t have known that one act of courage would become the foundation of my advocacy — or that it would ignite a powerful calling to speak truth, inspire healing, and fight for freedom.

Rooted in lived experience and unwavering faith, this message continues to resonate — not just as a story, but as a call to rise.

My First Public Address

Speaking Topics

  • Keynotes & Presentations That Move People Forward

    From Potential to Purpose: When people are reminded of who they are — and what they carry — everything shifts. Clarity sharpens. Confidence deepens. Purpose rises.

    These keynotes are designed to do more than inspire. They ignite internal shifts that translate into bold action. Through powerful storytelling, lived experience, and clear, compassionate insight, each presentation creates a space for breakthrough — helping individuals and teams reconnect to what matters most.

    Whether speaking to leaders, educators, women on the edge of breakthrough, or organizations ready for impact, each message is crafted with intention: to meet your audience where they are and move them forward.

    Signature Focus Areas:

    Inspiration & Resilience
    Women’s Empowerment
    Purpose-Driven Leadership

    Audience Takeaways:

    • A renewed mindset grounded in purpose, strength, and possibility

    • Practical tools to overcome obstacles

    • Clear steps forward — in leadership, vision, and life

    Because transformation doesn’t just happen. It’s sparked. And it starts in the room.

  • Exposing the systems that protect silence—and the survivors left to navigate it.

    Despite having the highest rate of police-reported human trafficking in Canada (Statistics Canada), Nova Scotia remains one of the quietest provinces on the issue. While public awareness is growing, few conversations explore what happens after exploitation ends. Survivors seeking justice are often met with silence, dismissal, or harm from the very systems meant to protect them.

    This survivor-informed session takes audiences beyond surface awareness into the deeper systemic realities—revealing how shame, cultural denial, and institutional failure compound trauma long after escape. Ideal for audiences already familiar with trafficking basics, this experience challenges participants to confront hard truths and reimagine what real justice and survivor support can look like.

    Audience Takeaways

    • A grounded understanding of Nova Scotia’s trafficking crisis and its silence

    • Insight into the legal, cultural, and institutional barriers survivors face after exiting

    • Tools to challenge harmful narratives and support survivor-centered responses

    • A renewed vision for justice that centers healing, dignity, and accountability

  • The root of exploitation isn’t just the trafficker — it’s the buyer.

    Confronting the buyers, beliefs, and systems that keep exploitation alive.

    Human trafficking doesn’t thrive in silence alone — it thrives in tolerance. Buyer Beware™ confronts one of the most ignored drivers of sexual exploitation: demand. This bold, survivor-informed presentation exposes how cultural attitudes, systemic inaction, and normalized buying behaviors allow exploitation to flourish — while survivors bear the consequences.

    Designed for audiences already familiar with the basics, this session invites leaders, professionals, and communities to move past surface-level awareness and confront the deeper forces sustaining the commercial sex trade.

    Audience Takeaways

    • Insight into how power, culture, and institutional apathy sustain buyer behavior

    • A clear case for why ending demand is critical to meaningful anti-trafficking work

    • A renewed call to action for accountability, prevention, and survivor-centered change

  • Equipping professionals to respond with clarity, care, and survivor-informed insight.

    Professionals on the frontlines often carry the greatest responsibility—and the greatest opportunity to do no harm. This session is designed for those working in justice, health care, policing, and emergency services, where well-meaning responses can unintentionally retraumatize those already impacted by exploitation.

    Grounded in survivor-informed expertise and real-world advocacy, Frontline with Care bridges theory and practice to shift systems from intention to impact. Participants will leave better prepared to create trauma-aware environments rooted in trust, dignity, and accountability.

    Audience Takeaways

    • A clearer understanding of the survivor experience across frontline systems

    • Awareness of harmful patterns and how to replace them with trauma-informed approaches

    • Practical strategies for embedding survivor-centered care into daily practice

    • Tools to strengthen organizational cultures of safety, equity, and impact

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Frustrated by the lack of accountability given to sex buyers (aka Johns) in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and across Canada, Cheyenne co-founded the 2019 Buyer Beware™ Conference to expose the culture of tolerance surrounding the commercial sex trade. Held at Saint Mary’s University as part of the SMU Criminology Speaker’s Series, the conference was the first of its kind in Atlantic Canada to confront the demand side of human sex trafficking.

Buyer Beware™ drew dignitaries, health professionals, police agencies, national advocates, students, and supporters from across the country — all gathered for bold, necessary conversations that challenged the systems enabling exploitation. Cheyenne shared the stage with a distinguished lineup of anti-trafficking leaders, including keynote guest speaker and renowned journalist and advocate Victor Malarek, offering powerful, unflinching perspectives on the societal harms caused by sex buyers and the institutions that protect them.

BUYER BEWARE™