Isaiah Marshall

Title: Becoming a Front Runner: Your Secret to Overcoming Adversity

Talk description:

In this inspirational keynote Isaiah Marshall shares how running changed his life and allowed him to overcome the hardships of growing up in public housing with a single mom not knowing if rent would be paid, witnessing drug deals, and being held at gunpoint as a teenager. His story is a reminder that you can’t always control what happens to you, but you can control how you respond to adversity.

In this talk you’ll walk away inspired to:

-Better approach adversity in your life by becoming a front runner
-Run your life’s race to WIN and don’t run to NOT lose
-Ditch comparisons to run your own race
-Believe in yourself even when you feel like the underdog

It’s a reminder that no matter what obstacle you're facing you can overcome it with the right mindset.

Isaiah is a spoken word poet and an award winning speaker whose mission is to glorify God, edify His church, and make Him known (G.E.M.). Isaiah has spoken on various platforms such as the Tennessee Performing Arts Center in Nashville, TN and speaks at camps and churches across the country to glorify God and edify His people.​​ His poetry has been featured on platforms such as Louder Than The Music.

Isaiah is from Detroit, Michigan. He grew up in an environment that faced problems like drugs, gang involvement, poor school performance and crime. With all odds against him, he fell in love with the sport of track and field. Track and field has taught Isaiah many valuable lessons about life. Just as in the sport of track, in life we all will experience pain. We have to learn to endure and press through the pain in order to achieve greatness. Pain is necessary for growth. Through the sport of track, he was able to see that there was more to life than the inner-city of Detroit. Isaiah became an All-American in High School and attended College on a Track scholarship.

Isaiah did not grow up with positive male role models in his life but his track and field coach saw something within him that he did not see in himself. It totally changed the trajectory of his life. Isaiah's goal is to facilitate the change in which young people wish to see in their life.

Isaiah graduated from Tennessee State University with a Bachelor of Science in Health Sciences. He obtained a Master's of Divinity from Lipscomb University. He currently serves as a Chaplain in the United States Air Force Reserve. In a world of competing stories, his aim is to give young people a vision of a better story for their life. Isaiah will equip and motivate students to overcome obstacles and break negative cycles to live the life they envision with purpose.

When Isaiah is not speaking, he enjoys spending time with his beautiful wife Rahab Marshall and his three children (Olivia Marshall, Gabriel Marshall, and Elizabeth Marshall). Along with being a professionally trained speaker, gifted minister, spoken word poet, and youth advocate.