"I am just so relieved in a way to have found you. You restore my sense of reality.

"A few years ago, I...asked your opinion about gold. Rather prescient, weren't you? The price has almost doubled."

Catherine has worked and spoken in all fifty states in the United States, numerous parts of Canada and Mexico, and in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. While her audiences are diverse, they all share one common approach—they care.

Audiences of up to 100 allow for more intimate, interactive presentations that review complex financial and investment issues or transactions.
Audiences of up to 250 permit an interactive style. Audiences of up to 1,000 allow for an "open mike" question-and-answer format, time permitting.
Audiences of more than 1,000 work best with written questions submitted to and selected by a moderator or—if the schedule allows—workshops or an after-keynote reception. These formats give the audience an opportunity to explore specific areas in greater detail.

Gold Rush 21 in the Yukon, Canada, was sponsored by the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA). Catherine participated as a luncheon speaker and member of the Board of GATA.

Catherine addressed the Green Party National Convention in Reading, Pennsylvania, in July 2007. The speech lasted a lively two hours, with Catherine taking questions from the floor every 15 minutes or so. This gave Catherine the opportunity to show the economic connections between the various concerns expressed by the audience and relate them to the deeper causes.

Lectures are our most popular format, typically with audiences of 250 to 1,000 people. Great lectures work when they are a dynamic part of an ongoing conversation. For example, a local sponsor may be holding a lecture series about the economy and the role of finance and money. The local sponsor markets the lecture to their list and Solari markets it to our e-mail list. Prior to the event, the local sponsor schedules Catherine for a series of radio shows in the regional market to discuss the material in her upcoming speech. This fills the audience with people who we and/or the local sponsor are already in cahoots with who are interested in and enthusiastic about the topic.

The lecture format allows for a question-and-answer period. This may be followed by a reception or a workshop on the same or a subsequent day. Arrangements may be made for the slide presentations and/or the audio to be available to the audience online.

Catherine's lecture Navigate the Falling Dollar took place in Mill Valley, California, in December 2004. A request from a member of the Solari Action Network to film it for them resulted in our creating a DVD, which is now an online video.

Catherine's speech for the Illahee Lecture Series in Portland, Oregon, entitled Money, Values, and Action, sold out to a lively, engaged standing-room-only audience. The discussion continued with a reception following the main event.

The "Magic and Money" tour with ally Caroline Casey was a four-city spiritual-economic revival in the Bay Area, responding to listener delight with Catherine's cavorting with Caroline on the Visionary Activist Radio Show.
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Catherine's workshops are typically 3-to-4-hour add-ons to an introductory lecture. They are ideal for audiences of 100 or less who want to explore issues and actions in greater detail.

The "Navigating the Falling Dollar and the Shift to Sustainability" workshop in Ashland, Oregon, involved simulating a family investment portfolio to help determine the steps that families and communities can take to survive and thrive during uncertain and challenging times.

Moving from Observer to Player: Creating the Future You Deserve and Desire Returning to Ashland, Oregon, six months later, Catherine led this workshop audience through the development of local transactions needed to shift investments to "buy back” America.
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Catherine's 2004 interview on Financial Sense Newshour entitled "America's Black Budget and the Manipulation of Mortgage & Financial Markets" was so popular that a Silicon investor transcribed it and spread it online.

Catherine's initial interview about Enron in 2002 on Flashpoints was so popular that it mushroomed into seven shows, culminating in a national show with all affiliates, followed by a transcript and CD, Enron: Anatomy of a Cover-Up.

Catherine's interview on Coast to Coast radio, “Black Budget & Money Trails,” was designed to help people who are not in training to be the Secretary of the Treasury or National Security Advisor understand where our tax dollar really goes.

Positively Black host Junious Ricardo Stanton and Catherine love to explore the most intimate aspects of neighborhood life and connect the dots between global financial players and our everyday lives.
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Catherine loves speaking at festivals. You might think that great music and great food detract from a serious conversation like money. Not so. When we're relaxed, it is much easier to go into "the invention room" with Catherine to discern and reengineer the global financial system.

Catherine spoke at the Health and Harmony Festival in June 2006. The theme was Creating Sustainable Communities: How We Embody the World We Want to Create.
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Is your organization or enterprise committed to helping individuals, families, and communities build real wealth? If your goals and values are compatible with Solari's, Catherine is delighted to help you build real wealth, too. If you are in a market where we have a sizeable audience, we encourage you to contact us to help you achieve a successful event that will raise attention and/or resources for your projects and campaigns. Organizing and promoting such an event is a way for individuals interested in creating a Solari Circle to generate their initial funds for local investment.

Catherine was a speaker at the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee's press luncheon at the National Press Club (C-SPAN).

Catherine served as moderator of the Unanswered Questions press conference at the National Press Club.
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As a Wall Street Banker and Assistant Secretary of Housing, Catherine has had extensive interaction with financial and corporate media, including network news focused on financial and current events. During litigation with the federal government on behalf of the Hamilton Securities Group, Inc., Catherine declined participation with corporate and TV media, doing only occasional community cable and Internet TV shows. With Hamilton's litigation successfully concluded and the growth of online video, Catherine looks forward to doing TV shows on financial and economic development matters.

When Catherine is invited to do a lecture or lecture and workshop, the sponsor or a Solari Action Network member will hold a private meeting or dinner as a third part of an overall event. This is the perfect occasion for smaller groups who have questions or want to discuss action options that are more appropriate in a private, intimate session.