Anthony is an author, public speaker, and development coach under his umbrella company, Anthony D. Sparks LLC. When not working his day job as a nonprofit project coordinator, Anthony is either writing a new book, speaking at a corporate or school event, or working one-on-one as a development coach. Anthony’s main message is one of empowerment, coaching clients to “find purpose on purpose”. Find out the two necessary ingredients to getting your start in motivational speaking!
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My name is Anthony Sparks and I do a couple of things. First off, I'm a Project Coordinator for a non-profit in Birmingham, Alabama and in addition to that, I also have my own LLC, Anthony D. Sparks LLC, in which I write, speak and development coach. Here for homecoming this weekend, I'm speaking this Friday night at the Presidential Mentors Academy for their 20th Anniversary Gala. I'm the keynote speaker for that and my topic for tonight will be, it takes a village. And I know we've heard that quote, it takes a village to raise a child, but I'm kind of putting a spin on it to kind of drive home the point to the audience that if the village has been good to you, it's now time for us to turn around and be good to it. As we were all raised by a village or villages and once you become grown, the village is no longer required or responsible for raising you. You're responsible for raising it and passing it on to the next generation, better than it was given you and so that's just kind of an example, just so it's really themed or event-driven and so I base whatever I speak on on the event. My life is built on my faith and so I never want to, I guess, give someone, just Anthony's opinions, so to speak. And so I try to pray and just kind of see God in what I need to say to this particular group and so that's first and foremost. And then secondly, I just wait for the inspiration, depending on what the event is. A lot of times for me, it'll happen in the course of me, I'm running around my neighborhood, just exercising, or whatever, I've always got my phone with me and so the minute something comes in my head, I'm stopping and typing in notes and things like that. I've been speaking for roughly 15 years and there's never been a time where I've spoken to a group that I haven't gotten nervous and I can appreciate it because what it does for me is it keeps me humble because the minute that I get up and think I got this, I think that's the minute I fail because you know me resting and relying on my own strength, power, whatever, I'm a falter. So it's always nerves, it's always excitement and once I get up and speak that first word, I'm in the zone.
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