A hilarious, heartfelt, interactive keynote about worry, overthinking and actually enjoying your life, ending with the Sink Your Worry ceremony and a countdown from 10 to 1.
AUDIENCE TAKEAWAYS
Name the worries people carry into work
Laugh at the overthinking
Sink them together on a countdown from 10 to 1
Workshop90 to 120 minutes
Sink Your Worry: Take Back the Helm
An interactive workshop with humor, reflection, guided activities and conversation for teams and leaders, ending with the Sink Your Worry ceremony.
AUDIENCE TAKEAWAYS
Humor, reflection and guided activities
Conversation for teams and leaders
Ends with the Sink Your Worry ceremony
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Admiral Jim
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Jim Kukral, performing as Admiral Jim, is a Cleveland entrepreneur and author. Sink Your Worry is his hilarious, heartfelt, interactive keynote about worry, overthinking and actually enjoying your life: audiences write a worry on dissolving paper, drop it in a cup of water and watch it disappear, then the whole room reads a pledge together and sinks their worries on a countdown from 10 to 1. Funny, human, hopeful, never corporate. Now booking 2027.
Sink Your Worry is a hilarious, heartfelt, interactive keynote about worry, overthinking and actually enjoying your life. Admiral Jim has audiences write a worry on dissolving paper, drop it in a cup of water and watch it disappear. Then the whole room reads a pledge together and sinks their worries on a countdown from 10 to 1. Funny, human, hopeful, never corporate.
It suits corporate teams, associations, chambers, nonprofits, conferences, schools, and healthcare and wellness events. Jim brings a cup and dissolving paper for every attendee; your team provides the water. Taking part is optional and nobody has to share what they wrote.
Behind the character is Jim Kukral, who has spent 26 years in attention-getting marketing. He built and sold two online marketing agencies, consulted for FedEx, Sherwin-Williams and Fortune 500 companies, and taught internet marketing for more than ten years as an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco. He has spent more than 20 years on stages and given over 200 talks.
He is the founder of the Cleveland Floaters and LET'S GO CLE, the author of The Emerald Standard, Unskippable, Attention! This Book Will Make You Money and Write a F*$%'ing Book Already, co-author of The Misny Method, and author of the free ebook Float Above It. He is based in Cleveland, Ohio, and is now booking 2027. Phone: 216-272-4383.
Clients and events
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Event
Organizer
Format
Year
Sink Your Worry ceremony cruises
Cleveland Floaters, Cuyahoga River and Lake Erie
Live event
2026
Testimonials
What organizers say.
“Admiral Jim may not be a real admiral like I am, but he sure puts on a great show. All in good fun.”
Admiral June RyanUnited States Coast Guard (Retired)
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