Helping people find
COURAGE & CONNECTION
in the conversationsthat matter most.
Heather Hester helps parents, educators, and communities turn avoided or uncomfortable conversations into opportunities for connection, understanding, and growth. She brings warmth, real-life experience, and practical tools to stay grounded, repair relationships, and choose kindness when things feel messy or uncertain.
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Heather is a Speaker, Coach, Parent Advocate and host of the award-winning Podcast, More Human. More Kind.
She helps families, schools, and communities navigate the moments when words fail and fear takes over. These are the conversations about identity, change, or belonging that many people would rather avoid.
Through story and gentle honesty, Heather guides people to stay present, curious, and compassionate even when the conversation feels hard. She draws on her own parenting and allyship journey to show how courage and connection grow from imperfection, repair, and trying again.
Her sessions are warm, funny, conversational, and deeply human. Whether she is leading a parent night, a community gathering, or a professional talk, Heather creates spaces where people feel supported enough to reflect honestly, ask questions without shame, and begin practicing the skills of real connection and confident kindness.
Through story and gentle honesty, Heather guides people to stay present, curious, and compassionate even when the conversation feels hard. She draws on her own parenting and allyship journey to show how courage and connection grow from imperfection, repair, and trying again.
Her sessions are warm, funny, conversational, and deeply human. Whether she is leading a parent night, a community gathering, or a professional talk, Heather creates spaces where people feel supported enough to reflect honestly, ask questions without shame, and begin practicing the skills of real connection and confident kindness.
SPEAKING TOPICS
Heather speaks to the moments when people feel stuck: when a child comes out and a parent freezes, when someone says the wrong thing and no one knows how to respond, or when silence feels safer than trying.
Through lived experience, humor, and reflection, she helps audiences replace fear with curiosity and practice what she calls confident kindness: the ability to stay open, connected, and compassionate even when you do not have the perfect words.
Each talk is shaped by Heather’s belief that people do not need scripts or perfection. They need space to be real, to listen deeply, and to begin again with more compassion than before.
Through lived experience, humor, and reflection, she helps audiences replace fear with curiosity and practice what she calls confident kindness: the ability to stay open, connected, and compassionate even when you do not have the perfect words.
Each talk is shaped by Heather’s belief that people do not need scripts or perfection. They need space to be real, to listen deeply, and to begin again with more compassion than before.
SIGNATURE TALKS
The Urgency of Allyship
The Difference Between Being Nice and Being Kind
When Your Kid Comes Out and You Freeze
Parenting Through the Messy Middle
Boundaries as Love
Grief and the Gifts of Loss
Why bring heather
to your community?
to your community?
As a parent of a queer child, Heather has had to unlearn the quiet conditioning many of us carry. The fears, the assumptions, and the habits that keep us from hearing what our kids are really saying. She understands how disorienting it can feel to navigate this journey in a world that often feels tense and polarized.
Heather’s work is an invitation to pause, reflect, and learn new ways of showing up, feeling grounded in kindness, curiosity, and courage. She believes connection begins with presence, not perfection, and that every conversation offers a chance to grow in compassion and confidence.
She loves to collaborate with communities that are ready to build cultures of listening, empathy, and confident kindness, and she would be honored to be part of your effort.
Heather’s work is an invitation to pause, reflect, and learn new ways of showing up, feeling grounded in kindness, curiosity, and courage. She believes connection begins with presence, not perfection, and that every conversation offers a chance to grow in compassion and confidence.
She loves to collaborate with communities that are ready to build cultures of listening, empathy, and confident kindness, and she would be honored to be part of your effort.
