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Adulthood arrives all at once — and no one ever taught the class.
Why This
Why Skills, Thrills & Bills
LoriAnn Romanowski
- Public Speaker
- Corporate Trainer — global pharmaceutical
- Presented across PA, NJ & DE
- Yoga enthusiast · Mother of three twenty-somethings
Hi, I'm LoriAnn. I've spent much of my life teaching. For years I worked as a corporate trainer for a global pharmaceutical company, helping adults make sense of complex material. I've presented in high schools across Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, coached adults, taught fitness classes, and worked with students — learning, over and over, how to make complicated things feel doable.
But the spark for Adulting: Skills, Thrills, and Bills is personal. I'm the parent of three twenty-somethings, and as I watched each one step into adulthood, I realized how many silent hand-offs there are. One day someone else is handling the details; the next, they're expected to understand paychecks, taxes, insurance, leases, and credit.
I remember being 27 — married, employed — and staring at a W-4 I didn't know how to complete. I thought I must have missed that lesson, and that I was surely too old not to know what it meant. That experience never left me.
Adulting has a language people assume everyone understands. APR, deductible, FICA, escrow, withholdings — and most of us never had it translated into plain English. That's what I love to do. I take what feels intimidating and make it clear, logical, and memorable. My goal isn't to overload people with information; it's to replace confusion with clarity — so when those moments arrive, whether it's a first lease, first car, or first tax form, they'll think, "I remember this. This makes sense."
That's the heart of every talk I give.