Signature Talks

 

1. It’s On You: The Power of Personal Responsibility

A hard-hitting yet empowering talk that shifts the blame game and equips people to own their decisions, energy, and outcomes. Perfect for youth with behavior challenges or anyone stuck in a victim mindset.

Key themes: Accountability, choices, maturity, emotional control.

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2. One Decision Can Change Everything

Your most requested keynote. From criminal charges to community impact—Dewayne’s story empowers listeners to take back their future with one bold decision.

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3. The Strength Behind the Struggle: A Caregiver’s Journey

A deeply personal and emotional talk about standing in faith, patience, and unconditional love as a caregiver during his wife's battle with cancer. This message brings hope to families, churches, and health support communities.

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4. Fail Forward: How to Turn Setbacks Into Setups

This practical and motivating message teaches how to use life’s toughest failures as fuel. Perfect for schools, programs, and professionals dealing with fear, disappointment, or self-doubt.

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5. Serving from the Scar: How to Use Your Story to Heal Others

This signature message empowers survivors, mentors, and leaders to stop hiding from their past—and instead use it to inspire, uplift, and lead. Ideal for churches, nonprofits, and leadership events.

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6. Breaking the Cycle: Becoming Who You Were Meant to Be

A heartfelt, practical message for youth and families on how to overcome generational pain, stop repeating patterns, and become a cycle-breaker.

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7. The Strength Behind the Struggle: A Caregiver’s Journey

A deeply personal and emotional talk about standing in faith, patience, and unconditional love as a caregiver during his wife's battle with cancer. This message brings hope to families, churches, and health support communities.

 

8. Who's Going to Break the Cycle?

A challenge to young men and fathers to rise up and rewrite their family legacy. This talk inspires accountability, healing, and leadership at home and in the community.

 

9. Serving from the Scar: How to Use Your Story to Heal Others

This signature message empowers survivors, mentors, and leaders to stop hiding from their past—and instead use it to inspire, uplift, and lead. Ideal for churches, nonprofits, and leadership events.

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10. The Price of Success: What Are You Willing to Give Up?

This message challenges people to stop romanticizing success and start preparing for the sacrifices it requires—cutting distractions, breaking bad habits, and showing up with intention.

Key themes: Sacrifice, clarity, purpose, consistency, and growth.

 

 11. Discipline Over Desire: The Secret to Getting What You Want

Packed with truth and urgency, this talk shows how mastering discipline—not motivation—is what separates wishful thinkers from real achievers.

Key themes: Delayed gratification, commitment, focus, and mindset.

 

 12. Success Without a Shortcut: Hustle the Right Way

For youth tempted by the fast life or shortcuts, this talk compares short-term wins with long-term success. Dewayne speaks from lived experience about how shortcuts often cost more in the end.

Key themes: Hustle culture, identity, consequences, delayed success, and integrity.

 

13. Overcoming Emotional Neglect

A compassionate and powerful message to those who feel forgotten, unloved, or unseen. Dewayne opens up about how emotional neglect shaped his early life—and how healing began when he learned to value his voice.

 Key themes: Mental health, validation, identity, inner healing, resilience.

 

 14. Fathered or Forgotten: Redefining Fatherhood

Whether you had a father or not, this talk helps young men and fathers understand the emotional and generational weight they carry—and how to become the fathers their children need.

 Key themes: Generational trauma, legacy, emotional leadership, father wounds, active parenting.

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 15. Discipline, Dedication, and Destiny

This talk brings fire and focus to those who feel distracted or stuck. Dewayne challenges the audience to choose a new level of daily excellence and self-control to unlock the destiny they say they want.

Key themes: Self-discipline, routines, responsibility, daily choices.

 

16. It’s On You: The Power of Personal Responsibility

A hard-hitting yet empowering talk that shifts the blame game and equips people to own their decisions, energy, and outcomes. Perfect for youth with behavior challenges or anyone stuck in a victim mindset.

Key themes: Accountability, choices, maturity, emotional control.

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17. Planted, Not Buried: Helping Youth Discover Their Worth

This deeply affirming message speaks directly to youth who feel unwanted, discarded, or invisible. Dewayne shares his own experiences of instability and rejection—and how those moments became the soil for something greater. This talk reminds them they’re not broken—they’re becoming.

Key themes: Identity, emotional healing, resilience, belonging, potential
Ideal for: Foster youth conferences, group homes, youth in care ages 10–21

 

18. The Power of Presence: What Parents Get Right (and Wrong)

A transparent and compassionate keynote for foster parents, group home staff, and caregivers. Dewayne shares what helped and hurt most when he was in the system—and how foster parents can become life-changers, not just temporary caretakers.

Key themes: Trauma-informed care, emotional connection, consistency, tough love
Ideal for: Foster parent training, DHR, nonprofit foster care agencies, CASA programs

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19. Mission Over Maintenance: Reigniting the “Why” in Your Work

This keynote is a wake-up call for educators, administrators, and business teams who feel burned out or disconnected from their mission. Dewayne brings passion and perspective, reminding teams that impact isn’t in the job—it’s in the approach.

Key themes: Culture, purpose, team energy, resilience, values-driven leadership
 Ideal for: School staff retreats, business leadership meetings, nonprofit summits

 

20. Create 5-Star People: Culture, Excellence, and Human Impact

Tailored for businesses, schools, and teams who want to elevate customer service, student engagement, or internal culture. Dewayne challenges teams to build “5-star” employees—not just based on talent, but character, compassion, and consistency.

Key themes: Workplace culture, servant leadership, personal responsibility, team morale
 Ideal for: Business trainings, school systems, city departments, and customer service teams