Adam is a fantastic story teller who really connects with his audience. His story is compelling and leaves the audience with a sense of urgency to find their passion. You cannot leave Adam's talk without wanting to have your own sense of purpose and direction. He met and exceeded our expectations to spark a spirit of entrepreneurship and risk taking. We would certainly book him again!
Adam Shepard
Proving the American Dream is Still Alive!
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Adam Shepard
Biography
Adam attended Merrimack College in North Andover, MA on a basketball scholarship, graduating with a degree in Business Management and Spanish. Serving as a Resident Advisor during his upperclassmen years, He began to take particular interest in the social issues of our nation. Shortly after graduation-with almost literally $25 to his name Adam departed his home state for Charleston, SC, embarking on the journey that has now become a successful first book, Scratch Beginnings.
After a whirlwind journey that took his self-published book to the Today Show, CNN, Fox News, and NPR, Adam sold Scratch Beginnings to HarperCollins and made appearances on the Dave Ramsey Show and 20/20. Adam likewise has been featured in the The New York Times, the New York Post, The Atlantic, The Christian Science Monitor, yada, yada, yada, and Scratch Beginnings has now been used on the curriculum or as a First Year Common Read at over 110 colleges and universities in the United States and translated across the world.
He used that momentum to do a deal with HarperCollins on a second book, The Best Four Years. To date, he has sold about 9 copies of that book, mostly to my Uncle Greg. My family and I really don't talk about it when we get together.
After a few years, then, working as North Carolina's slowest bartender, Adam set out upon the world to spend all of the money he had been saving. The narrative of this experience comprises his most recent book, One Year Lived. One Year Lived tells tales of travel and life lessons learned among seventeen countries, four continents, 42,134.6 miles, and one haunting encounter with a savage bull.
In the interim, Adam created the Next Level Success course. He's pretty proud of that one.
Most enriching of all for Adam, however, has been his participation in the documentary American Dream, where he was blindfolded, driven to a random city, and dropped off with just $25 and the challenge to survive-and thrive-for 30 days. Very possibly the most meaningful experience of his life.
In Adam's spare time, he reads, plays tennis with his wife Ivana, and travel the country empowering audiences to elevate performance by taking initiative.
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Adam's Message
Adam speaks exclusively to audiences under 25 years old, since they are the generation that needs to hear his message, and he's also found that they are the ones who are open to hearing what he has to say, reacting to it, and immediately moving to make a change in their lives. Adam's message–and the accompanying stories can include any the following components, and he certainly intends to tailor his talk to your specific objectives for your event:
• Why attitude matters more than anything else.
• How EVERYBODY faces adversity, but FEW know how to handle it.
• Why failure is, indeed, an option, and how to use that to your advantage.
• Positive thinking and goal setting are necessary paths to success, but positive action and goal achievement are what take you to the next level.
• Don’t just follow the leader; model the leader. How being a follower can be just as effective as being a leader.
• Focusing on what you want, going for it, and not stopping until you get it done.
• When you live your life outside of your comfort zone, good things happen.
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