YOUTH | LIFE HAPPENS. LIVE IT!


Ever wonder how some students can go through almost unimaginable challenges and still come out on top? While others seem to get lost at the slightest of missteps? Jake shares the tools, mindsets, and strategies today’s students need to turn adversity into opportunity, steer clear sabotaging self-doubt, and create the kind of focus that can take their lives in powerful and positive directions with sky’s-the-limit futures.

Based on his award winning book, Life Happens. Live It! Jake demonstrates how to:

  • Positively ACT on, rather than REACT to, life’s curve-balls
  • Identify negative thinking and turn it into positive power
  • Keep your eye on the doughnut, not on the hole with strategic, targeted focus
  • Find the opportunities in CHANGE
  • Become more RESILIENT than any challenge that happens to you>
  • Develop the self-CONFIDENCE and self-AWARENESS to steer clear the pity pit

This keynote is a power-packed hit with students of all ages. There’s a reason why kids swarm Jake each time he rolls off the platform. With gripping stories, uplifting solutions, fun humorous twists, and the gift of valuable perspective, students quickly place themselves into each story, and feel EMPOWERED to claim victory over their own challenges. They’ll walk away inspired, changed, and ready to leave excuses behind. Why? They GET that 99% of the reasons we create in our minds why something can’t be done will be taken away by a young man who lives every day in a rolling excuse, but refuses to use it.

Ready to inspire and empower at YOUR next youth event? Invite Motivational Speaker Jake French to speak for your group today!

Jake was more than 100% of what I had hoped for. His message combined with humor, got right to the student’s hearts. I am so proud and glad that he came to our school. I think he changed several lives today and would recommend him 100%!

Sister Linda Patrick

Assistant Principal, St. Mary’s Academy in Portland, OR

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