Celebrity guests

 TOPIC: OVERCOMING ADVERSITY

Born and raised in Atlanta, GA, Singleton’s story embodies everything we have come to understand about the lives of many inner city youth growing up in low-income housing projects. Fatherless and having lost his mother to HIV/AIDS when he was a senior in high school and watched his brother spend most of his life in Georgia’s prison system, IronE fought to have a life far different from the one he knew growing up. The “irony” of his story is that, while all the odds were stacked against him, IronE Singleton still overcame his troubled childhood to attend the University of Georgia on academic and football scholarships where he completed a double major in Theater and Speech Communications.

IronE’s motivational speech delves into his life journey and transformation by sharply contrasting the trials and tribulations of his life growing up destitute living in one of Atlanta’s worst housing projects during the onset of the hip hop explosion and crack epidemic and his battle to overcome the violence, drugs, and crime of the 'hood; his determination to succeed despite an abusive mother, an absent father, and the temptations of instant gratification inherent with the thug life, to his rise to fame in the Oscar nominated and biggest box-office grossing sports movie ever, “The Blind Side” and subsequent landing on The Walking Dead, the biggest show in cable television history.