Students will learn tools to overcome various obstacles and adversity that they may encounter throughout their leadership journey.

I will present a PowerPoint format that outlines who each person is, what they have achieved, the struggles that they overcame, and how they overcame those struggles. Material presented within the PowerPoint presentation will be summarized from the below sources:

1) https://www.familius.com/8-famous-people-who-overcame-obstacles/
2) https://www.nationalparks.org/connect/blog/beacon-resilience-and-love-harriet tubman#:~:text=At%2013%20years%20old%2C%20Tubman,the%20rest%20of%20her%20life.
3) https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-jun-10-sp-wnbacol10-story.html
4) https://thesouthernvoice.com/overcoming-adversity-the-helen-keller-story/
5) https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/Climb-and-Maintain-Tyler-Perry-Talks-Psychology-Resiliency

- Oprah Winfrey - Chosen for the struggles of her childhood. She was raised by parents who could not read, she was abused throughout her childhood, and she was rejected multiple times at the start of her television career.
- Bethany Hamilton - She lost her arm in a shark attack at a young age and became a professional surfer nonetheless. Now, she has four children and teaches young people to love surfing as much as she does.
- George Washington (and other Presidents) - Most of our Presidents during the first 100 years after the founding of the nation grew up in very poor circumstances and educated themselves in order to become wise and influential.
- Harriet Tubman - Harriet escaped slavery herself, then made many trips back to her slaveholder's plantation in order to help others escape on the Underground Railroad. She put herself at risk of death over and over again, and became known as "Moses" for her work as a conductor.
- Jim Carrey - Jim is one of the most famous actors of our generation, and he grew up extremely poor. He and his family lived out of their van, and he worked extremely hard to provide for his family as a teenager.
- Edna Campbell (and other athletes): Edna is a famous WNBA star who survived breast cancer, and now advocates for women's health around the country.
- Helen Keller: Helen became deaf, blind, and mute as a toddler and through the discipline of her teacher she was able to learn how to communicate and live a full life.
- Stephen Hawking: Extremely accomplished theoretical physicist and cosmologist despite battling motor neuron disease from his early 20s until his death in 2018.
- Tyler Perry: Born in New Orleans into extreme poverty, he dropped out of high school and was homeless off and on through his younger years as he built his career.
- JK Rowling: JK Rowling originally wrote the idea for the Harry Potter series of books on a napkin while on a train ride. She was a poor and single mother who was in and out of work.