Stage 1 · Awareness
See the Pattern
Recognize what keeps happening and where being dependable may be costing more than you realized.
October 15, 2026 · Walsh College · Troy, Michigan
Rewrite
Your Story
Interactive Workshop + Live Comedy Show
What if one afternoon could help you step back from the pressure at work, get clear on what needs to change—and laugh your ass off while you're at it?
2+ Workshop + Show: $117.60 each · Single ticket: $147 · Evening show: $30
Rewrite Your Story is a half-day, interactive workshop with Natalie Luke, PhD, and Merit Kahn, followed that evening by Merit's nationally touring one-woman comedy show, Optimistic Personality Disorder™.
It's for people who feel burned out, have too much on their plate or know something at work needs to change—but aren't sure where to begin.
Workshop 1:00–4:30 PM · Live Comedy Show 7:00 PM
Come with someone and save 20%:
2+ Workshop + Show tickets are $117.60 each.
Does This Sound Familiar?
“Why does everything keep coming back to me?”
You finish one thing and three more show up. You hand something off, but you're still the person checking on it. You try to step back, and somehow you end up pulled right back in.
Maybe you've thought, “It's faster if I just do it myself.” Or, “If I don't do it, who will?” Or simply, “I can't keep doing this.”
You're still getting it done. But you know working this way isn't sustainable.
Just because you can handle it doesn't mean it belongs to you.
Some responsibilities are handed to you. Others you take on because you know you can get them done. And even after you delegate something, you may still feel responsible for making sure it gets finished.
The workshop helps you decide what is actually yours, what needs to move and what you want to do differently next.
That's the Trust Tax™.
Being trusted is a strength. But when being capable keeps attracting more responsibility, unclear ownership keeps sending work back to you, or you become accountable for outcomes you don't fully control, trust can begin to have a hidden cost.
Over time, that cost can show up as exhaustion, resentment, burnout or feeling trapped in a job that once felt right.
Your Rewrite Your Story Journey
See the pattern. Hear the story. Step out of the pattern. Choose a different path.
This isn't another seminar about managing your time better, trying harder or giving yourself another list of things to do.
It's a guided experience designed to help you recognize the pattern you've been repeating, hear the story underneath it, loosen its grip and choose a different response.
Stage 2 · Understanding
Hear the Story
Notice the beliefs, identity and assumptions that may be helping keep the pattern going.
Stage 3 · Action
Reset Responsibility
Decide what belongs to you, what belongs to someone else, and what needs to be redesigned.
Stage 4 · Perspective
See It Differently
Use humor to loosen the grip of the old story and create room for another possibility.
Stage 5 · Vision
Choose a Different Path
Imagine how you want to work, lead and live when the old pattern is no longer making the decision for you.
Stage 6 · Commitment
Choose What Happens Next
Leave with one decision, boundary, conversation or action that reflects the story you want to live instead.
Awareness → Understanding → Action → Perspective → Vision → Commitment
Two Experiences. One Transformation.
The workshop helps loosen the pattern. The comedy helps you see the story differently.
The afternoon creates awareness, understanding and choice. The evening uses laughter to shift perspective—because sometimes we can't release an old story until we finally see it from another angle.
Afternoon · 1:00–4:30 PM
Rewrite Your Story Workshop
A guided, interactive leadership experience with Natalie Luke, PhD, and Merit Kahn.
- Recognize the progression and warning signs of burnout
- Discover where you may be paying a hidden Trust Tax™
- Identify the stories worth listening for
- Reset responsibilities that should no longer belong only to you
- Step out of automatic patterns
- Imagine a different path before asking how to create it
- Leave with one practical commitment for what happens next
Evening · 7:00 PM
Optimistic Personality Disorder™
Merit Kahn's inspiring and hilarious one-woman show blends stand-up, storytelling and irreverent optimism to explore life's messiest plot twists.
- Laugh—really laugh
- Recognize yourself in a new way
- See your story from another perspective
- Leave lighter, energized and inspired
Explore the Experience
One afternoon designed to move insight into choice.
12:30–1:00 PM
Registration and Connection
Arrive, settle in and connect with other participants.
1:00–1:35 PM
Burnout Does Not Begin With Collapse
Recognize the progression before burnout becomes the whole story.
1:35–2:05 PM
What Is Your Story?
See the beliefs, identity and roles shaping how you respond to pressure.
2:05–2:35 PM
The Trust Tax™
Understand how the story becomes a pattern—and why being dependable can become expensive.
2:35–3:00 PM
The Responsibility Reset
Decide what is yours to carry, what is yours to influence and what needs to be shared or redesigned.
3:00–3:10 PM
Break
Pause, process and prepare for a new perspective.
3:10–3:35 PM
Think Like a Comedian
Use humor to interrupt fixed interpretations and see another possibility.
3:35–4:00 PM
Dream Before You Plan
Imagine the future you want before asking how to make it happen.
4:00–4:20 PM
Choose Your New Story
A guided meditation to experience a different story emotionally, not only intellectually.
4:20–4:30 PM
Choose What Happens Next
Choose one decision, boundary, conversation or action that reflects the path you want instead.
7:00 PM
Optimistic Personality Disorder™
Live comedy, storytelling, perspective and release with Merit Kahn.
Meet Your Workshop Leaders
Leadership insight meets unforgettable performance.
Natalie helps you recognize and interrupt the patterns. Merit helps you see—and experience—the story differently.
Creator, Producer and Workshop Leader
Natalie Luke, PhD
Leadership Strategist · Researcher · Host of UnCeiling You™
Natalie helps high achievers recognize the stories, responsibility patterns and leadership systems that cause work, decisions and problems to keep finding their way back to them. She is the creator of The Trust Tax™ framework.
Creator, Workshop Leader and Featured Performer
Merit Kahn, CSP
Comedian · International Keynote Speaker · Playwright · Producer
Merit is the creator and performer of Optimistic Personality Disorder™, a hilariously healing one-woman show blending comedy, storytelling and transformational insight.
Hosted by
Mariette Frey
Community builder and strategic connector Mariette Frey will serve as emcee, welcoming participants and helping guide the experience from the afternoon workshop into the evening performance.
What Podcast Hosts Say About Natalie
Insight that is practical, relatable and grounded in real experience.
These reviews followed conversations with Natalie about leadership, burnout, responsibility and the Trust Tax™.
“Powerful insights on leadership, burnout, and learning to let go of responsibilities that were never hers to carry.”
— The Making of Me · Podcast host review
“Dr. Luke is smart, conversational, funny, thoughtful and a true leader for women to blaze their own path.”
— Women In... · Podcast host review
“The Trust Tax was thought-provoking and relatable, shedding light on an often unspoken dynamic in organizational systems.”
— Freedom Unlocked · Podcast host review
Get a Glimpse of the Show
Laugh. Release. See the story differently.
See why audiences connect so deeply with Merit's blend of comedy, storytelling and transformational insight.
What Will Be Different When You Leave?
You won't leave with more work. You'll leave with more choice.
See Your Pattern
Recognize what keeps happening and where being dependable may be costing more than you realized.
Hear the Story
Identify the beliefs and assumptions worth listening for when the old pattern gets activated.
Step Out of the Pattern
Create room to respond differently instead of automatically doing what you've always done.
Choose a Different Path
Leave with one decision, boundary, conversation or action that reflects the story you want to live instead.
Choose Your Experience
Reserve your seat for October 15.
Come for the afternoon workshop and stay for the live comedy show—or join us for the evening show only. Bringing someone with you? Save 20% when you purchase 2 or more Workshop + Show tickets.
Save 20% · 2+ Tickets
Workshop + Show · 2+ Tickets
$117.60 / person
Purchase 2 or more and save 20% per person.
- Interactive afternoon workshop
- Workshop 1:00–4:30 PM
- 7:00 PM live comedy show included
- Minimum 2 tickets
Workshop + Show · 1 Ticket
$147
The complete afternoon workshop and evening live-show experience for one.
- Interactive afternoon workshop
- Workshop 1:00–4:30 PM
- 7:00 PM live comedy show included
Evening Show Only
$30
Join us at 7:00 PM for Merit Kahn's Optimistic Personality Disorder™.
- General admission
- Live one-woman comedy show
- Comedy, storytelling and inspiration
Not Sure Yet?
Not sure if Rewrite Your Story is worth an afternoon? Start with the assessment.
In about seven minutes, the Trust Tax™ Assessment will help you understand:
Is there a responsibility pattern problem?
What is the pattern?
What story might be helping keep it going?
What might that pattern be costing you?
Then you can decide whether it's worth spending an afternoon learning how to step out of the pattern and choose a different story.
“I can handle it”
doesn't have to mean
“I have to do it.”
Take the Free Trust Tax™ Assessment →
About 7 minutes · Personalized results immediately · No name or email required to see your results
October 15, 2026 · Walsh College · Troy, Michigan
You've spent enough time doing what you've always done. What if you chose a different path?
See the pattern. Hear the story. Step out of the pattern. Choose the story you want to live instead. And then laugh, gain perspective and leave lighter.
Workshop 1:00–4:30 PM · Live Comedy Show 7:00 PM
Come together and save 20% — 2+ Workshop + Show tickets are $117.60 each.
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