Foster Child, Former NFL Player, American Ninja Warrior, Entrepreneur, and Motivational Speaker
Anthony started his life in foster care where he had 20 life shattering shifts. This shifts all started as early as three years old when Anthony and his three siblings entered into foster care. Anthony endured beatings, starvation, and forms of torture all before the age of six.
The atrocities turned into eight more years in foster care before Anthony was adopted into a poor all white family as the only black person, navigated his way through high school, sports, became a teen parent, married his high school sweetheart, found his biological father at 21, lost his first self-defining career to an injury, had twins at 25, went through a divorce, fully changed careers to a new venture, losing my adoptive mother and father, remarrying my ex-wife. So, a crazy "shift" goes on and on.
Hitting rock bottom, one is faced with a choice to die or make a change. Anthony found clarity eventually launching hope and eventually a burning passion in one's life to FEEL more of every single day.
Anthony founded Identity Shift. Identity Shift is accompany with one focus. To take back control of one's life by closing one's identity gap, reaching one's FULL potential, and Making "Shift" Happen. Through years of research, experimentation, self reflection, and sometimes by accident, Anthony learned how to master the shifts that life threw at him, which is the only way I was able to achieve the following:
- College football scholarship
- NFL athlete for Buccaneers, Redskins, and Steelers
- American Ninja Warrior and first NFL athlete to hit a buzzer
- Featured on 6 national TV brands
- 7 Figure gym owner
- 6 figure consultant
- International keynote speaker
- Best selling author
- Global “shift” coach
- HAPPILY remarried to my high school sweetheart
- Father to 3 amazing kids (started as a teen father)
we talk about the identity shift . This was a great conversation and I enjoy sharing it with you today .