There are motivational speakers.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Pump you up, get you jazzed, and all that razzmatazz.

Have nothing agin’ ‘em; in fact, I usually come away feeling, well, pumped up, jazzed, and razzed after listening to one of these kinds of speakers.

Then, a day or two later, the energy fades.

So, it’s with such incredible pleasure that I tell you about a from-the-gut, from-the-heart motivational speaker we had the other day at InfoSource Learning.  And, where the energy has only been growing since the presentation we heard.

His name is Stephen Hopson, and he writes and speaks (from the heart, and from experience) about overcoming adversity.  His particular talk to us at InfoSource was on accepting yourself.

As the CEO at InfoSource Learning, I invited Stephen to share his background and how he overcomes problems and issues so that he can be a more productive person.  As a former went-from-$16,000-a-year-stock-broker-to-over-$300,000-plus-in-four-years-on-Wall-Street salesman, I wanted him to speak to our 35 or so sales and marketing employees.

The guy just flat out blew me away.

He’s funny, poignant, and meaningful . . . and he’s lived it . . . the accepting-yourself and overcoming-adversity part.

If you’re involved with an organization that might need a keynote speaker, I simply cannot recommend Stephen enough.

I’ve written about Stephen before, and I didn’t want to spoil the above by telling you “the rest of the story,” but you can learn more about him at this earlier post and at his Adversity University Blog.

The guy is the real deal.   Check him out.

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