Next Level Success: an essential primer for the real world

You know you deserve success. You want it. You’ve been putting in the hours. You’re on the cusp. But, as yet, no breakthrough. With equal parts wit and sincerity, here, in Next Level Success, Adam Shepard takes his readers on an interactive journey to reveal key tools to capitalize on momentum. We each are presented with both bad luck and fortuitous opportunities throughout our lives just as we each are presented with waves of success and failure. How we react in those moments is how our story will come to be defined.

Adam Shepard attended Merrimack College in North Andover, MA on a basketball scholarship, graduating with a degree in Business Management. Shortly after graduation–with almost literally $25 to his name–he departed his home state for Charleston, SC, embarking on the journey that became his successful first book, Scratch Beginnings. He has been a contributor to the Today Show, CNN, Fox News, NPR, the Dave Ramsey Show, and 20/20 and has been featured in the The New York Times, the New York Post, The Atlantic, and The Christian Science Monitor. Scratch Beginnings has now been used on the curriculum or as a First Year Common Read at over 110 colleges and universities in the United States and translated across the world. After a few years, then, working as North Carolina’s slowest bartender, he set out upon the world to spend all of the money he had been saving. The narrative of this experience comprises his most recent book, One Year Lived. One Year Lived tells tales of travel and life lessons learned among seventeen countries, four continents, 42,134.6 miles, and one haunting encounter with a savage bull. In his spare time, he reads, hikes with his foxy wife Ivana, and travels the country empowering audiences to elevate performance by taking initiative. More at www.ShepardSpeaks.com.