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Sacramento, CACalendar IconJune 2-4 2025

Hyatt Regency Sacramento & SAFE Credit Union Convention Center

Engage in cutting-edge learning. Empower the senior living profession. Elevate residents' quality of life.Register now for Elevate: CALA's Spring Conference & Trade Show for the latest in workforce development, dementia care, technology, and earn RCFE CEUs (BRN credits are also offered).Regardless of your focus area, this program is built for all Assisted Living, Memory Care and CCRC professionals!

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Reflect & Reimagine

Reflect & Reimagine

Bridging life and death with stories that wake people up before it's too late.

Listen & Awaken

Listen & Awaken

Helping midlife audiences live with intention—by learning from the dying.

Witness & Transform

Witness & Transform

Where death literacy meets soul work—let's talk about what truly matters.

Speak & Soften

Speak & Soften

Transforming final regrets into today's wake-up calls—one story at a time.

Our Team

Sydney McCraw

Sydney McCraw

Social Media Guru
David Hahklotubbe

David Hahklotubbe

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Beth Davis

Beth Davis

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Urgent Messages From Just Up the Road

Urgent Messages From Just Up the Road

A collective of wisdom from those who have gone before us - deathbed shares from those desperate to leave a contributory legacy. Carefully distilled, curated, and brought to life by marrying the pearls of wisdom with relevant relatable and often humorous stories adding levity and making it more digestible, all the while staying true to the mission of increasing the quality of life of the reader.

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SPECIAL OFFER - FOR EVERYONE WHO PRE-ORDERS DAVID'S BOOKS, DUE OUT IN EARLY 2026, HE WILL PERSONALLY INSCRIBE THEM WITH A CUSTOM MESSAGE OF YOUR CHOOSING AND SIGN IT. WHEN ORDERING, PLEASE REACH OUT TO DAVID THROUGH THE EMAIL WITH YOUR DESIRED MESSAGE. AND, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT.

Go Fly Your Kite

Go Fly Your Kite

A Handbook For the Living, offers answers to life's important questions to help you proactively abolish end of life grief caused by regret. Infused with humor and deeply personal anecdotes, David's urgent and inspirational message of taking action, is highly motivational, urging us to avoid this common self-inflicted pain. A born storyteller and distiller of wisdom, his book is a practical handbook for the living.

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David is featured in Carmel Living and Cypress Coast Living, two respected regional lifestyle magazines.

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David's message is powerful and timely. He challenges his audience to re-evaluate their priorities. At the same time, he is a consummate storyteller often going off script to include the audience, this is where he shines, guaranteeing that no presentation will be the same. No one leaves the room the same person they entered as.

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