Mercedes & Anastasia Korngut
Teen entrepreneurs and youth speakers Mercedes & Anastasia Korngut have transformed their lives and created positive change through focusing on the Small Bits of Happiness in daily life.
Why you should book Mercedes & Anastasia Korngut for your next event
- As featured experts on CTV, Global News, and top publications, their insights on happiness and resilience have gained national and international recognition.
- Founders of Small Bits of Happiness, their bestselling wellness products are used in over 100 schools and sold in stores across Canada and the USA.
- Podcast hosts with interviews featuring Angela Duckworth, Penny Oleksiak, and industry leaders, they bring expert-backed happiness solutions to global audiences.
Bring the power of happiness to your event with Mercedes & Anastasia Korngut! As teen entrepreneurs, bestselling creators, and global speakers, they share science-backed strategies to boost well-being, motivation, and connection. With a reach of over 4 million people and insights from top leaders, their keynotes inspire actionable change for workplaces, schools, and communities. Book them today to energize your audience with proven happiness habits!
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Keynotes
Keynote by Mercedes & Anastasia Korngut: Finding Small Bits of Happiness
Mercedes and Anastasia Korngut break down 12 scientifically proven happiness habits and share how one can incorporate them into their daily routine. This talk includes tangible advice, engaging and thought-provoking questions for one to ask themselves, and simple, tactical ways to build the habit of happiness.
Additionally, as two teens, they provide a very unique and valuable perspective on how teens view and engage with happiness, providing practical advice for parents and adults to connect with their children or students, and become happier together.
Keynote by Mercedes & Anastasia Korngut: The Dual Audience: How to Win Over Teens & Women
Mercedes and Anastasia Korngut, two teen entrepreneurs who have founded Small Bits of Happiness, a company on the mission to help people of all ages, especially teens, find more happiness in daily life, build happy habits, and boost parent-child/teen connection. They have a popular product line, sold in dozens of stores across North America, a digital learning platform to incorporate the habit of happiness in classrooms, and a podcast (Hack Your Happiness), with interviews of Olympic Athletes, Oscar Winners, top professors, and authors, sharing their happiness and success tips.
In this presentation, gain unique insights on how to reach and sell to the female demographic, including tangible tips on reaching teenagers. This session will also cover the art of storytelling, as well as how to educate women and parents on why your products MATTER.
Keynote by Mercedes & Anastasia Korngut: Helping Students Feel Happier: Insights From Icons
Mercedes and Anastasia Korngut are two Albertan teen sisters who started their company, Small Bits of Happiness, three years ago. Their mission is to help individuals of all ages find more happiness in daily life. As two teens, they understand firsthand the difficulties of teenage-hood, including not only the hormonal changes that teens undergo, but the added stressors of war, post-pandemic life, and beyond.
Through their podcast, Hack Your Happiness, the two sisters have spoken to countless Olympic Athletes, entrepreneurs, Oscar-winners, Grammy-winning composers, New York Times Bestselling Authors, marine biologists, NASA scientists, NASCAR drivers, CEOs, and beyond. Through their conversations, Mercedes and Anastasia have learned critical advice from these iconic individuals, specifically on the topic of happiness and advice to teens and pre-teens.
As many pre-teens and teens struggle to take advice from parents and teachers, in this session, Mercedes and Anastasia share top happiness advice from top iconic individuals, as well as their perspective on finding happiness as two teens. Mercedes and Anastasia share how teachers and educators can guide students to building happy habits, and practicing wellness - all from the perspective of a teen, and iconic interviews.
Mercedes and Anastasia are qualified to speak upon each of these topics, as their perspective as two teens allows adults; parents and educators, a glimpse into the wants, needs, and feelings of teens. This allows parents and educators to better connect with teens and tweens, and help them find more happiness on a daily basis.
Mercedes & Anastasia Korngut
Unlocking Happiness: Small Changes, Big Impact
Mercedes and Anastasia Korngut are two teens on a mission - a mission to spread happiness. As a 16 and 14-year-old duo, they are champions for teen happiness, around the globe. The two are co-founders of Small Bits of Happiness, a successful company. Small Bits of Happiness provides happiness-wellness products and digital tools for individuals of all ages, especially teenagers, to find more happiness daily, build happy habits, and connect parents with their teens and children.
In addition, the sisters are popular writers, with their written works on advice for teens and parents, on the topic of happiness and building connections, being published in Impact Magazine, BC Parent Magazine, Washington Parent Magazine, and the Clark County Courier newspaper. Recently, Mercedes Korngut was interviewed for an article on Senior High Stress, featured in Parent Magazine. This fall, Mercedes signed with Embolden Media Group, an American book agency, gaining literary representation. Alongside her book agent, Mercedes is actively working towards sharing tangible and simple tactics for increasing happiness, with people across the globe, through her book.
The teens impact fellow teens around the world through their podcast, Hack Your Happiness. This podcast features conversations on teen happiness with top individuals, including Wharton Professor and author of bestselling book Grit Angela Duckworth, Oscar-winner and Producer of Elvis and The Great Gatsby Catherine Martin, Canada’s most decorated Olympic Athlete Penny Oleksiak, most-followed NASCAR driver Toni Bridigener, President of Girls Inc., Dr. Stephanie Hull, and more.
Mercedes and Anastasia have led Small Bits of Happiness to reach over 4 million teens and adults, through profiles and live interviews on national media features on platforms including CP24 Toronto, Silicon Valley Impact podcast, AZParent News, CityTV Toronto, Global News Calgary, CTV National News, Global News Regina, a profile on Susan Hay’s Making A Difference on Global News Toronto, Virgin Radio, and more.
The sister’s passion for helping local residents has led them to donate over $2000 of product to charities including Alberta Children’s Hospital, Wings of Hope, Parkinson’s Alberta, and Toy Mountain. They volunteer regularly at local elementary schools, sharing advice to pre-teens on building happiness habits and focusing on the small bits of happiness, as they become teenagers.
Both Mercedes and Anastasia are passionate and driven teenagers, determined to help individuals of all ages focus on the small bits of happiness in daily life, and are continually innovating and finding new ways to help people around the world.
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