2025-2026 Speaker Series

Navigating Your Next Chapter

The theme is “Navigating Your Next Chapter” for the 2025-2026 St. James NEST Speaker Series.  Our purpose is to provide services and support to St. James' residents to enhance your ability to make 'aging in place' a reality. Each year NEST supports that goal with current topics the community will find valuable and interesting.  This year’s topics include: The Gift of Perspective, The Mind/Body Connection, Ensuring Your Wishes are Honored with Advanced Medical Directives, and Smart Living Made Simple: Enhancing Daily Life with Home Technology. We have a great line up of speakers this year who are knowledgeable in their respective topics. All programs will be held at the Homer E. Wright Event Center and are open to all St. James residents.

The Gift of Perspective

Tuesday, September 16, 2025 - 3:00-4:30 pm

Speaker: Jeff Moss

It is easy to wonder what life may be like after you move here, leave friends and family, retire, lose a spouse or partner, become medically compromised or otherwise challenged. Navigating this next chapter may present opportunities you never expected.  Jeff Moss, our speaker, was a former combat helicopter pilot and veteran, as well as a corporate executive, entrepreneur, and author who will show us how to use an inspiring eye in creating a new path for this next chapter!  Change is constant and not to be feared but embraced. Hear about his amazing life experiences and how they shaped his journey.  

From this session you will learn to:

• Define resilience
• Identify your legacy
• Put gratitude first
• View life through different lenses
• Learn the lessons of the "Savannah Bananas"

This will be an energetic, humorous and thought-provoking session filled with tips on how you can live your best life and create a legacy for you, your family and community! For anyone living in St James this is an exciting and timely session filled with great information to assist you in navigating change! 

Location:  St. James Community Center
Date:  Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Time: 3:00pm to 4:30pm including a question and answer session.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early such that the program can begin on time. The program is FREE to attend, but we strongly suggest you pre-register due to limited seating capacity, in order to ensure you are able to participate.

Please register by clicking on the Registration button, or via the Help Desk at (910)250-8388. Registration closes on September 15th at 12 noon. 

In case you cannot attend, following each event, the materials and recording of the presentation will be posted on the 2025-2026 Speaker Series page, under the Events tab on the website.