2025
METAMORPHOSIS
Our 2025 talks explore transformation—the moments when we evolve, adapt, and emerge fundamentally changed.
How asking for help saved me & can change mental health culture
Drew Petersen
More than hair: styling wellness from the inside out
Melanie Ash
Beyond the slopes: diversifying a mountain economy
Thayer Hirsh
Your mobility, your mountain: mobility, access, & inclusion
Lauren Panasewicz
How a teenager can help you overcome peer pressure
Gabriella Zheleznyak
Finding yourself through the echoes of the canvas
Grace Klein
Why restaurants are essential for human connection
Patrick Murphy
Neuroscience, ancient wisdom, and our path forward
Ellen Petry Leanse
The power of poetry to humanize the undocumented
Keila Perez Lopez
The play paradigm: unlocking potential through joy
Erfa Alani
How "Big Mail" is sabotaging the postal service
Andrew Young
2023
INSTINCT
11 speakers explored the power of instinct—the gut feelings, intuitions, and innate knowledge that guide us through life's most important decisions.
Hidden in Plain Sight: Labor + Sex Trafficking in Your Community
Kara Napolitano
Why is it so hard to apologize?
Michael Ballard
The Art of Elective Suffering
Christopher Fisher
How the Patterns in Nature Echo into Music
Andy Thorn
Inquieto
Tony Molina
Changing the Relationship to our (Health) Challenges
Isabelle Amigues
The Space Revolution and Humanity's Future
Eligar Sadeh
Why AI is the Catalyst We Need to Change Education Forever
Sarah Rubinson Levy
Out of Thin Air: Housing Solutions in the Mountain West
Garrett Scharton
Sound and The Consequence of Silence
Kenzie Reichert
Fentanyl: Poisoning or Overdose?
George Gerchow
2022
INTEGRATE
11 speakers examined how we bring together disparate parts—ideas, communities, technologies, and identities—to create something greater than the sum.
The evolution of money, from gold to Bitcoin
Harold Tan
From never-ever to forever-after
David Servinsky
Being understood as an immigrant
Liliana Baylon
Worldschooling: Let the world be our classroom and playground
Jennifer Toda
Surfing endless river waves
Jacob Vos
Original Performance
Shanaynay Music
The labels that divide us
Monica Harris
Why a grieving psychologist joined the circus
Sherry Walling
What does disabled mean?
Hallie Jaeger
More sex, intimacy and love in marriage
Debbie Marielle
Retreat and return
Haley Littleton
2021
EXPAND
10 speakers challenged us to push boundaries, broaden perspectives, and grow beyond our perceived limits.
Masking Up to De-Armor
Anita Bangale
To Explore, We Must Risk Failure
Douglas Vakoch
We are all Beautiful Bioreactors
Christopher Leidli
City to Gritty
Rachel Cronin
Your Taste Buds: Ambassadors to Nature
Sherry Hess
The Magic of Libraries
Stephanie Ralph
Gentle Chair Yoga
Dixie Chamness
The Fire Inside Her
Diane Schroeder
Coming Home
Jennifer Rae Getz
It's Beautiful… And Good for Your Health
Don Ruggles
2020 • First Event
CONNECTION
10 speakers launched TEDxBreckenridge by exploring what connects us—to each other, to our environment, and to ideas worth spreading.
Getting Cozy with Grief
Stacy Smith
Currencies for Connection
Ashley Hughes
Prisoners of the Mind
Jeff Haugland
Why We Need Intergenerational Relationships
Jenna & Jordan McMurtry
You Don't Want to See Me Anymore
Lisa Lee
Building a Village to Raise a Child
Jaci Ohayon
Connection with the Enemy
Sean Hansen
What Artificial Intelligence Taught Me About Music
Lucas Cantor
The Art of Human Connection
Ashlie Weisel
George Johnson: Mountain Man of Modern Breckenridge
Leigh Girvin