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Overcoming Through Your Personal Story w/LeRon Barton

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Check out my latest episode with my friend and little brother LeRon Barton. LeRon shares with us great tips and insights on Overcoming Through Your Personal Story. He shares with us these tips:

  • It's one thing to memorize a speech but it is another thing to be able to deliver it. 
  • The story reaches more people than the data. 
  • It's easier to score when you start off from 2nd or 3rd base and so much more. 

    • LeRon L. Barton is a writer from Kansas City, Missouri currently living in San Diego, CA. A graduate of Paseo Academy of Fine Arts, LeRon is the author of two books, Straight Dope: A 360 degree look intoAmerican Drug Culture and All We Really Need Is Love: Stories of Dating, Relationships, Heartbreak, and Marriage.

    In addition to his books, LeRon is an essayist whose topics cover racism, mass incarceration,

    politics, gender, and dating. These works have appeared in Black Enterprise, Salon, Harvard Business Review, The Good Men Project, Your Tango, Media Diversity, Raconteur, Elephant Journal, Slate, andMoAD.

    LeRon is an international speaker who has given multiple talks and appeared on TEDx, Al Jazeera, the University of San Francisco, Navis, Speakers Who Dare, University of Massachusetts-Amhurst, Nas Dubai, Glide Memorial Church, HCA, The City of Cupertino, Los Altos Chamber of Commerce, Square, Lockton, United Way of Los Angeles, and Defy Ventures.

    In his spare time, LeRon enjoys mentoring African-American youth and backpacking around the world.


    Contact Info:

    www.leronbarton.com

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/leron-barton-cwna-2b700b1/

    Facebook.com/LeRonLBarton

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