{"id":14360,"date":"2014-03-12T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T18:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=14360"},"modified":"2014-03-12T12:10:49","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T18:10:49","slug":"inmate-turned-author-motivational-speaker-to-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=14360","title":{"rendered":"Inmate turned author, motivational speaker to speak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former prison inmate and self-described \u201cgarden variety loser\u201d who became a best-selling author and founder of his own company will share his message during a free speech at 5:30 p.m. March 18 in Centennial Hall Room 188<\/p>\n<p>Weldon Long, author of \u201cThe Upside of Fear: How One Man Broke the Cycle of Prison, Poverty and Addiction\u201d and \u201cThe Power of Consistency\u201d will deliver a message of dealing with adversity in life and business.<\/p>\n<p>Long, of Colorado Springs, is a motivational speaker who offers what he calls Prosperity Mindset Training to organizations across the country. His visit to UCCS is sponsored by the Development Office of the University Advancement Division.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWeldon\u2019s message of changing the way we think about bad news is important,&#8221; Jaime Garcia, executive director,\u00a0Development Office, said.\u00a0&#8220;Bad things are going to happen to us. It\u2019s how we deal with those things that decide if we will be successful. He provides important perspective and suggestions for success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The event is free for faculty, staff and students. Registration is requested by March 12. To register, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.www.alumniconnections.com\/olc\/pub\/UCOC\/event\/showEventForm.jsp?form_id=169538\">https:\/\/secure.www.alumniconnections.com\/olc\/pub\/UCOC\/event\/showEventForm.jsp?form_id=169538<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about Long, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weldonlong.com\/about-weldon\">http:\/\/www.weldonlong.com\/about-weldon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To see FOX News interview with Long, visit<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/player.js?deepLinkEmbedCode=VqOWUzMzoNku0bZQdcLWTrNg2HHvPnWT%2C84YWYwMzoV4YGddYTu_IbVYp6C9rsojD&amp;width=570&amp;height=360&amp;embedCode=VqOWUzMzoNku0bZQdcLWTrNg2HHvPnWT&amp;browserPlacement=left1px&amp;video_pcode=d1NnE6uyOZiYIYD7tO7q1aPBdLfg\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>A former prison inmate and self-described \u201cgarden variety loser\u201d who became a best-selling author and founder of his own company will share his message during a free speech at 5:30 p.m. March 18 in Centennial <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=14360\" title=\"Inmate turned author, motivational speaker to speak\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Screen-Shot-2014-03-12-at-12.10.20-PM.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-3JC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14360"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14368,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14360\/revisions\/14368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}