About this speaker
Leslie Register is a seasoned real estate professional working in sales, training, operations, and executive management for over 25 years. Her passion for writing and helping people - fueled by her experiences as a successful career mom, coach, educator, and recovering addict – inspired her to become a published author, professional speaker and mentor. Double Shot of Sober: A Story of Change, Growth and New Beginnings is her first book. This story reveals her change and wellness strategies that helped transform her life from a place of fear to freedom and harm to healing.
Register is curiously creative, intrinsically motivated, and spiritually guided. As a child, she could be found in the backyard swing making up songs or in her bedroom teaching school to dolls and stuffed toys. On Saturday nights, when she wasn’t hosting the neighborhood talent show starring herself, she was ‘Lois Lane’ with a makeshift desk from the sofa ottoman and Tyco play phone while watching Superman on TV.
As a teenager she found God on the park swing and asked God into her heart and soul. Henceforth she spent nearly all her free time in church singing in the choir, building a food pantry, and teaching the youth.
As she entered adulthood joy filled her spirit as a mother and career woman. She strategically climbed the corporate ladder with a career in real estate operation.
On all accounts her life was fulfilled, yet somewhere in the shadow lived a darkness. She felt an overwhelming amount of shame and unworthiness she attempted to heal with a collection of addictions. Food, people pleasing, shopping, working, and eventually alcohol were vices used to heal the uncomfortable anxiety.
In 2013, she humbly pushed all those vices aside and stepped into her authentic light and joy. Valuing faith, family and fun, her daily prayer of “God, decrease me and increase you so I may do your will” is a constant reminder to cherish every moment and inspiration to be of service to her community as a speaker, mentor and writer.
Register studied communications at the University of South Florida and is an accredited Certified Property Manager through the Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM). She has participated on the boards of the Florida Manufacture Housing Association, Bay Area Apartment Association and Urban Land Institute. She also has a passion for volunteerism frequently offering her time as a Score business mentor, Sea Haven Youth Crisis Center facilitator and volunteer as well as regular service work in Alcoholic Anonymous.
Leslie is currently based in South Carolina and works as a professional speaker and mentor. Her Signature Talk leaves audiences inspired to embrace change and chase wellness as they feel empowered to release the old and usher in the new.