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Motivational Speaker Charlie Adams is also a Speaker for the NCSA Athletic Recruiting Network
STOKE THE FIRE WITHIN
A Guide to Igniting Your life
Available at the Notre Dame Bookstore and corbypublishing.com.
Biography
Charlie Adams inspires and challenges audiences around the world with the “Stoke the Fire Within” keynote, the rip roaring "How to Build a Positive Attitude and KEEP the Darn Thing" breakout, and "College Recruiting Simplified."
In many ways, Charlie is a product of the remarkable people he had access to as a 3-time Golden Microphone Award-winning Sports broadcaster and Positive News Reporter. Charlie interviewed thousands of peak performers about where they got their "fire within" and how they were able to stay "on fire!"
Charlie interviewed the likes of Burt Lancaster, Pat Summitt, Michael Jordan, John Grisham, and many other well known achievers. His most valuable insights came from the Human Interest features he compiled at legendary television station WSBT TV. With a bent for telling the stories of the common person, Adams found their positive attitudes to be anything but common.
He found himself interviewing people like Brett Eastburn, born with no arms or legs, but has never considered himself disabled. Or Ril Miss, a woman who was blind. Rather than focusing on what she couldn't do, she found work in the Dark Room of a local Hospital.
Charlie is the author of three books on motivation and humor:
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"Travels with Charlie"
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"I Didn't Know You Were So Tall"
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"Stoke the Fire Within"
Every day, Adams was around people with a fire, and with championship attitudes. He is passionate about fanning their flames of excellence to audiences of all kinds.
Charlie's presentations stay fresh because he is constantly around new motivational material. He is host of the popular Group Motivational trips known as "Travels with Charlie Adams" for Edgerton’s Group Travel. Hundreds of travelers from around the world have joined Charlie to hear his inspirational stories and see breathtaking sights around the globe.
He has hosted trips to such locations as Italy, Hawaii, Alaska, Williamsburg, Charleston/Savannah, California Coast and Wine Country, Branson, New Orleans and the Old South, and the Colorado Rockies by Train. Upcoming trips include Canadian Rockies and Glacier National Park, Mexican Riviera Cruise, Hike the Grand Canyon, Pacific NorthWest, and Ireland.
Charlie is a native of Oxford, MS. He attended the University of Mississippi. People often ask him how to be "on fire" for life. He often shares his story of how you have to find your passion! As a junior at Ole Miss, he walked by the Journalism Building on campus. He saw a sign that read: "Tryouts for Student TV News, Sports and Weather." Despite the fact that he was mortified of speaking in public, the fire within him was ignited. He marched up those stairs, burst into the building, and asked if he could try out that night. He was told yes, and showed up later so nervous that he could hardly swallow. He gutted his way through Tryouts, was told he could do Sports two nights a week, and knew that he had found his passion. He worked his tail off, overcame his fear of speaking in public and on live television, and literally 'willed' his way to becoming a successful broadcast journalist. He absolutely loved covering champions in Sports, and learning their mindsets of Excellence. He remains convinced that anyone can achieve their dreams. That is why he wrote "Stoke the Fire Within," so that he could reveal the step by step process to living an "on fire' life!
Three years after trying out for the student TV news station, Charlie accepted a Golden Microphone for Broadcasting Excellence at the Universal Sheraton in Los Angeles, for his work at KBAK TV in Bakersfield.
He would go on to Anchor and Report in markets such as South Bend, IN and New Orleans, LA. Because of his positive nature of reporting, meeting planners constantly called him to speak at their events. As a full time Anchor and Reporter, he was speaking 75 times a year and developing a reputation for helping events to reach their potential by utilizing his keynotes and breakouts. By 2004, speaking had become his passion. He had seen how the right motivational message could literally change peoples lives, and impact Events.
2010 marks his 25th year of speaking. After that many years, Charlie understands what meeting planners are looking for to make sure their event reaches its potential.
Organizations have brought Charlie in to speak in such locations as The Cayman Islands, Juneau, Alaska, Phoenix, Dallas, Cincinnati, Nashville, Atlanta, Indianapolis, Chicago, Baton Rouge, and every small town known to man.