Book Colin O'Donohoe to Speak
Bring Third Hand Smoke to your conference, staff training, leadership event, or community gathering — and give your audience practical tools to understand survival stress, interrupt the transfer, and reconnect.
Why this conversation matters
The stress people survive does not always stay at work, in uniform, in the hospital, or in the caregiving role. It follows them home. Left unnamed, it becomes burnout, shutdown, family strain, team conflict, compassion fatigue, and silence. Third Hand Smoke gives people language and practical tools to interrupt the spread.
What your people leave with
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A shared language for survival stress
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Less shame around what they are experiencing
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Better conversations at home and at work
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A simple protocol they can use the same day
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The Third Hand Smoke Field Card
Meet Colin
Colin O'Donohoe is the creator of Third Hand Smoke. Drawing from his family's military experience, his own recovery journey, and years of work in the arts and leadership spaces, he helps audiences understand how survival patterns get passed forward — and how they can be recalibrated instead of carried silently.
How it works
1. Understanddentify the patterns of survival stress and where they show up.
2. InterruptLearn practical tools that stop the transfer before it spreads.
3. ReconnectLeave with a shared language and a plan your people can use immediately.
WHAT YOU CAN BOOK
The Keynote — Third Hand Smoke (45–60 minutes)
Keynote + Protocol Lab (keynote plus hands-on workshop)
Interrupt the Spread — Training Series (half-day or full-day)
Packages can be adapted for keynote slots, staff trainings, conference breakouts, retreats, and leadership days.
WHO IT'S FOR
Veterans organizations
Healthcare teams
First responders
Caregiver communities
Leadership groups
High-stress workplaces
Conferences and retreats
The honest questions you're already asking
"I've filmed hundreds of speakers. Colin was the first who truly shook me, who made me see my own family differently."
— Craig Smith, President, OSV Studios