College Students Want Value
No person values time more than a college student. It’s the early years of being an adult free from many of the boundaries living with parents and in home communities bring. Nothing embodies this persona or perspective more than having college students sit down and listen to mental health speakers or substance abuse prevention speakers for colleges. “We’ve heard this before,” “Yeah, yeah, don’t do drugs, we know”-and for this reason, your search for the best motivational speaker for college students to bring to your college campus must be about value.
We want our college students to enjoy their independence, make lifelong friends, and have a plethora of experiences that become memories they share forever. Amid all the amazing things college brings are dark realities, truths often not seen until we become young adults. The real-life stories that are developing around us concerning mental health, addiction, and risky behaviors have severe consequences. College education is often about lectures to students, and the last thing they need is a mental health & substance abuse speaker for colleges to give them another. This is what makes me different and why I’ve had the success I have had with college students. My time is far from a lecture, and the value is evident when my time is over.
Below, you are going to read about my work with young adults and just what I offer in an environment where students ‘already know’ but also at a time when life is starting to come at a person fast. I have been the best drug misuse speaker for colleges for the last 15 years. I have spoken to D1 sports programs, Greek life events filled with thousands, symposiums, and open forum conversations that help students have better tools regarding mental health, substance use, addiction, and recovery. If my work piques your curiosity, I hope that you will tap the Book Tony button and reach out to me. I do not have agents, and this life work is something I am committed to as a motivational speaker for college students. I’d love to speak with you personally and, even more, to be a part of your next event.
~ Tony Hoffman
Motivational College Speaker
‘From Prison to The Olympics’
No other person in the world shares a story with Tony Hoffman, and it’s not the story itself that makes it special. It’s the way Tony shares his story as a motivational speaker for colleges and the lessons he builds into it that are truly one of a kind. When we think about a guest speaker for colleges, we think about a person or story that can move the hearts and minds of its listeners, and Tony’s speech about his journey from a prison sentence to the Olympics hits the core with college audiences that no other college motivational speaker can claim.
It’s a story that has been used by some of the top D1 sports programs in the USA and has opened forums for deep conversation regarding Tony’s unique experiences in addiction recovery and mental wellness. It’s about light bulbs going off, realizing one’s potential through another’s life experiences, and making the most of our current moment.
The Valuable Life Lessons
The difference between Tony as a college motivational speaker for mental health and drug misuse prevention and other professional speakers will be clear from the moment he starts. Other speakers may use the words “you need” or “you’re not” and, in the same breath, boast about how well they do things. Tony strongly believes no person truly enjoys being spoken down to or belittled. Tony simply tells his stories and the lessons he gained from failure and mistakes. It’s about looking back at his time as a young athlete and struggling with mental health and his attitude, missing opportunities to learn from failure, and growing into a person of happiness and success who has now chosen to use that story to become a motivational speaker for college students. Tony relives these moments for college students so they can feel his experiences and walk away with the lessons and perspective his life struggles gave him.
Talk About What It Takes
You don’t dream your way into the Olympics starting from a prison cell at Wasco State Prison. It’s a plan that is carefully curated and modified over time. It’s a routine that is worked day in and day out for years. It’s investing in every avenue possible to see a goal to the end, and most importantly, it’s about disciplining oneself to the process of work it takes to achieve at a world-class level. There is a level of connection that cannot be described when you bring in a motivational speaker for colleges like Tony Hoffman because he has been to the absolute bottom of despair and used life skills most speakers can only talk about to regain control of his life and become the first person in the world to start in a prison cell and participate in the Olympics. Click Book Tony below to bring a powerful motivational college speaker to your campus.
Mental Health Speakers for Colleges
Understanding The Topic of Mental Health
Up until recent years, topics like mental health, mental illness, and addiction were governed by outdated belief systems and ideas that are not supported by modern scientific research. The challenge when selecting your substance abuse speaker for colleges is how do we do this without bringing another professor or doctor in front of the students? Tony is the most renowned motivational speaker for college students in the mental health, substance abuse/addiction recovery space. He has lived experience that he shares vulnerably with students about his mental health struggles that started in his early teenage years. Anxiety, depression & suicidal ideation were crippling for him.
Emotional Awareness
What was most debilitating for Tony was the confusion around his discomfort. At the time, he was unable to identify what he was feeling; therefore, his behavior unknowingly became about calming emotions at any cost. While Tony’s primary focus with college students is to educate and inspire, he also desires to instill the core principles of balanced mental wellness and a life of self-empowering choice-making skills. These core principles are:
Safe spaces for vulnerable conversation
- Communities of like-minded people focused on the empowerment of self and others
Tony has an unmatched ability as a mental health speaker for colleges, articulating the neurological matters of substance use and mental health from a lived experience perspective. Tony answers why it becomes an addiction for some and not others and the warning signs that a problem is developing or someone is in need. As an owner of pH Wellness, a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in Southern California, Tony is an expert in his field, not only with lived experience but also his day-to-day involvement in helping others battling addiction find a life of sobriety and recovery for themselves. His experience and unparalleled storytelling ability make engaging as a college student seem effortless.
Fentanyl Overdose Awareness Speakers For Colleges
The Harsh Realities
The number one cause of death in the United States for ages 18-45 right now is fentanyl-related. Substance use and drug misuse experimentation and what it means to use substances even recreationally have dramatically changed for the worse. Fentanyl is laced in almost everything a person can take to get high. College campuses all over the country are tasked with handing out harm reduction kits or working to educate students on the dangers of fentanyl and the overdoses related to them to help stop deaths from occurring. As the most requested overdose awareness speaker and overall best motivational speaker for college students in the country, Tony Hoffman has a special way of impacting college students regarding fentanyl awareness and the importance of harm reduction.
Experiences That Make a Difference
Tony has been to several universities and college campuses to assist in their overdose awareness or harm reduction campaigns. Many times, the goal is to get NARCAN into the hands of as many students as possible. With today’s climate surrounding the dangers of fentanyl, we want every student to have NARCAN accessible to stop an opioid overdose from occurring. To accomplish this at the highest level, it will take a drug overdose awareness speaker like Tony to do it. When we use a clinical person, doctor, nurse, or policeman to share the dangers, many college students may pass off the message as unnecessary because no one believes they will become a victim of fentanyl poisoning.
This is where Tony is most effective. By telling his engaging and informative story, ‘From Prison to The Olympics,’ college students can hear the best substance misuse and prevention speaker for colleges in action. This means he will spend a good portion of time telling stories about how people he knows have lost their lives to fentanyl-related overdoses and how these events could have easily been prevented if NARCAN were near.
College students are growing up in a time where counterfeit pills are rampant. Fake oxycontin, Percocet, Adderall & Xanax can be found in just about every community in the United States. Tony speaks about how before he became a motivational speaker for college students, a lifelong friend of his lost her brother to a counterfeit pill laced with fentanyl. It was half of the pill that Frankie took that ended his life. The pill he took looked just like a Xanax pill; you could not tell the difference. Tony’s number one priority as a college overdose awareness speaker is to educate students on the risk of even trying substances one time and the grave risk involved.
In Tony’s experience as a guest speaker for colleges on substance abuse, the large majority of students walked out with a greater level of understanding regarding the risks involved with substance use, addiction, and opioid-fentanyl overdoses, which lead to them taking many doses of NARCAN with them. If you require the best drug awareness speaker for colleges, Tony Hoffman is the person you’re looking for. The time with students will be engaging, inspiring, informative, and life-changing. Tap the Book Tony button to learn more!
Drug & Alcohol Addiction Recovery Speakers For Colleges
Growth in Acceptance of Addiction Recovery
As information continues to grow amongst communities about substance use and addiction to drugs and alcohol, the more frequently we see universities and colleges adopt addiction recovery programs on campus for students. While we have a long way to go with social acceptance of individuals who abstain from mind-altering substances free of ridicule, there is an uptick in students who are learning early on that their brains do not allow them to function under the influence of mind-altering substances even if it’s just recreationally.
Inspire College Students
As a motivational speaker for college students, Tony Hoffman has been the best addiction recovery speaker for colleges over the last 15 years of his time speaking. His ability to present to universities and college students in a way that educates them on long-term recovery from addiction and inspires them to continue on a recovery pathway is unlike any other speaker available. It’s his inspiring journey, “From Prison to The Olympics,” that engages listeners in a story they can relate to so strongly. Tony’s mental health struggles and his dialogue with feeling different than others is something every student in early recovery or person in the world who’s in recovery can identify with. Those individuals who are in recovery share more commonalities regarding emotions and mental health than not. Tony’s ability as a substance abuse speaker for college to be vulnerable and share the most intimate parts of his emotional life pierces the soul of his listeners.
If you’re looking for a college guest speaker about addiction, treatment, and recovery, you have come to the right spot. Tony will share all the latest information and best practices for each segment unique to each presentation’s needs. Tap the Book Now button to find out more!
Offering Honest and Engaging Help to College Students
With so many complexities in modern life, students need substance abuse prevention and mental health speakers for colleges who can give an open-minded viewpoint of addiction, treatment, recovery, and overdose awareness. Tony shares his story candidly and in a well-received way. He is not just another motivational speaker for college students, and he can have constructive Q&A sessions after his time. Book Tony today; your students will thank you for it!
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