A back to school virtual celebration for middle and high school girls!

Welcome to Lectures on Tap

Join us for an engaging evening where professors, experts, and storytellers bring their thought-provoking lectures to your favorite bar!

Hosted by the Lectures on Tap team.

🗓️ Date: July 31st, 2025

🕡 Time: 6:30 PM

📍 Location: Lower East Side Manhattan (exact address provided in confirmation email)

📚 Lecture: “Sleep Smarter. Live Better.”

🎤 Speaker: Professor Natasha Coco Benitez

How did you sleep last night? We all share the experience of sleep, yet some have mastered it while others yearn for a restful night. Join us for an enlightening talk by Natasha Coco Benitez, as she addresses the common struggles of professionals and students alike in achieving restorative sleep.

As a Professor of Strategies in Stress Management at American University and a Workplace Wellness Coach, Coco will present data on our sleeping trends and share effective strategies to enhance your sleep hygiene for a healthier lifestyle. We will explore best practices and understand how our daily habits impact our Zzz's and overall well-being.

Natasha "Coco" Benitez is known for energizing her audiences. In addition to her academic role, she is a sought-after speaker for wellness events, dedicated to promoting mental and physical health. When she's not teaching, you might find her hiking, enjoying a Korean bathhouse, or discovering new restaurants in the DMV with beloved friends.

Don’t miss this opportunity to invest in a well-rested you!

Get a drink, connect, and learn at Lectures on Tap! 🙌

Agenda

6:30 PM – Doors open: find a seat (open seating!), order food & drinks, and expect a bar line—arriving early is key.

6:55 PM – Host introduction

7:00 PM – Lecture begins

7:45 PM – Audience Q&A

8:00 PM – Have 1:1 time with the speaker, mingle with fellow guests, and order another round

8:30 PM – Wrap up.

Dress for Success DC, celebrates Mental Health Awareness Month by Putting You First!

Balancing work, job searching, family, friends, and self-care might feel like an impossible task—but it doesn’t have to be. Join us for a reflective 30-minute session on how to prioritize your mental health and self-care while aligning your time and energy with your career goals.

Coach Coco (Natasha Coco Benitez) will guide you through a process of personal reflection, offering practical tips on how to balance everything in a way that supports your overall well-being. Plus, one lucky attendee will receive a free 30-minute life coaching session with Coach Coco!

Let’s show up for one another during this session, community matters now more than ever. 

Together, Blumont employees focus on mindset shifts that empower you to adapt and thrive—perhaps in ways you never considered.  We will explore practical tools to build resilience, find balance, and cultivate hope, even amidst the deep uncertainty many of us feel in the world and at work. 

How can we reframe our perspectives to see opportunities within challenges? We will dive into mindfulness and self-care techniques to strengthen your inner resources, so you have a plan to put into practice.

Join Coco and your colleagues to share experiences, build supportive connections, and discover how to navigate your internal dialogue with renewed clarity and strength.

This is a private event for Blumont employees.

KP Brand, Communications, and Community Engagement (BCCE) Leadership Retreat

Session: Navigating Our North Star: Aligning Purpose, Well-being, and Strategy for 2025

This is a private speaking event for Kaiser Permanente Leadership

An American University event - 2025 Black History Month OASATAU Legacy Empowerment Summit

Rest Is Resistance: The Power of Collective Care A transformative gathering where AU's Black excellence—past and present—unites to revolutionize how we think about success, rest, and community power. 

Expo! Expo! IAEE’s Annual Meeting & Exhibition 2024 takes a deep dive into the inner workings of exhibitions and events with six unique learning tracks from thought leaders such as Natasha “Coach Coco” Benitez, Executive Performance Coach and Burnout Prevention Specialist at Coach with Coco.

What are your wellness priorities at work, at home and out in the world? Her session, Mindfulness for Executives, Managers and Staff: The Curious Calendar Game, will examine this question with compassionate curiosity using insights from the calendars and/or photos in your phone!

Coach Coco will take attendees back in time, guiding them through an exploration of their wellness decisions to help them understand their daily choices, habits and routines. This session will offer clarity on emotional, social and workplace wellness priorities that empower participants to commit to positive changes.

Capitalizing on wellness research and engaging storytelling, this session delivers valuable strategies to prioritize wellness, so participants can choose behaviors that align with the happy, healthy and fulfilled human they aim to be.

Note- This is a private event for American University faculty.

American University faculty join Coach Coco for an engaging and thought-provoking panel discussion rooted in story-telling. AU faculty members will share their personal and professional stories, revealing how their real-world experiences help to enrich their teaching and inspire students. Together, we learn to:

• Weave personal passions into your lectures to create engaging and relevant content.

• Build authentic relationships with students by sharing your own experiences.

• Connect with other faculty to foster a collaborative and supportive community.

We discover how integrating our personal and professional life into your teaching can enhance student learning, create a more meaningful classroom experience, and inspire the next generation of thinkers.

If you have never attended a DC Startup & Tech Week, consider this your invitation!

I will be speaking for two session tracks:

1. Female Founder & Funder- join for my curious calendar game!

2. Founder Forum- a more intimate time to reflect and dialogue in a small group setting.

Consider this a sign and get your week long pass!

Get your pass here!

January 13th is National Vision Boarding Day!

While our new year's resolutions and intentions are fresh on our minds, let's come together in community and create a vision board.

This is event is FREE, FUN and will be filled with value!

Grab your coffee or tea, supplies and create a space at home ideal for crafting your vision board. Register here.

Suggested items to bring: construction paper, a project board, old magazines, newspapers, stickers, glitter, glue and tape. You can also consider creating a digital vision board using Canva.

Flow of the session:

1. Opening icebreaker

2. What's Your Vision Boarding Story?

3. WHY create a vision board & how to use it all year

4. Share you words, images and phrases

5. Work time

6. Closing meditation

7. Shout outs & appreciations

MY WHY for hosting this event:

Going into 2022, my vision board was focused on finding true LOVE. Words, images and phrases I cut out were intended to keep love top of mind in 2022--and it worked! July 2022, I met someone special and today he and I are deeply in love, living together in a new home and building a loving life as a couple :)

Vision boarding is a powerful practice to stay focused and helps you take action to change your life. Please consider joining and thank you :)

-Coco

I am so excited to speak at @dcstartupweek 2023! The DC area's largest event for entrepreneurs and startups is October 16th-20th! 🎉

I am moderating a panel of speakers on the importance of Self Care for Entrepreneurs on Friday, October 20th from 1:oopm - 1:45pm.

I’d love for you to attend this event, learn from experts in wellness and stay for happy hour after! Register! 👉 @dcstartupweek via Instagram or visit the website here!

Bootcamp details here! Bring your energy, a mat, towel, water and a friend!

Join me LIVE on Instagram @ coachwithcoco at 8:30pm ET to learn more details on our beauty & wellness women’s retreat Feb 4-5th in Bethesda, MD.