Dr. Antwon Martin shares his experience in finding his passion and purpose after an injury changed his plans of becoming a professional football player. Dr. Martin and I discuss the important role professors and mentors play in our life journey. Dr. Martin shares a personal experience with a professor who fueled him to become a professor and prove that he would turn out to be more than what that professor predicted. We discuss the importance of validating yourself internally and pivoting when your plans change rather than giving up on your goals. 

Dr. Antwon Martin is an author, speaker and professor. The Lord has blessed him to be an empowering and relevant voice to this generation. He has been featured on television, radio and other media locales due to his exceptional accomplishments. Humility, compassion and integrity best describe Dr. Martin. He is an effective and dynamic speaker that is known for his powerful, rousing delivery. This educated college professor has a resume of educating in 500+ seat lecture halls at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to intimate settings at private Universities. He believes that there is prominence in academic achievement.

He can be found on Facebook and Instagram as Dr. Antwon Martin or at [email protected].