Biography

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My Name Is Roman Akafate, I am "The Ethiopian Orphan who Beat the Odds and Achieved Success In America"
 
From what I had learned growing up an orphan, and through all the unimaginable adversities that I had to overcome, I gained a life time experience of beating the Odds and Achieving Success. Achieving success no matter how big the obstacles may be, that are standing on my way, and how many times I had to face and fight them to reach my goals.

That is exactlly the strength, empowerment, inspiration, encouragment and self confindence that I will bring to your audience when you book me for presentation.

As a motivational speaker and coach and as an immigrant, I understand the difficulties of knowing where to start on building a successful life.  

This was my first lesson…when I arrived in America; no body showed me the best direction to follow. I learned it, by trial and error and by using the survival instinct that I developed during the years of being a poor orphan child that no body cared about.
 
The roads I have traveled in my life, which you can read from my book "Winning Life In America", to get to where I am today, shows the price I paid to reach my goal and live my dream, but more importantly, it shows my determination to reach my highest potential and to fulfill my purpose in life.

We are, where we are, at any point in our lives for very important purpose that we are assigned to accomplish; only if we know it. 

I have had so many destinations in my life where I felt stack in place for a while. There were so many next things I had to do before I reached my ultimate destination. At times It seemed like a long trip, something so distant that  I couldn't expect to reach...
 
But, look where I am now, at my "Ultimate Destination"  with you. I am in the present and I love who and what I have become. To get here, I traveled across the continent, I climbed the mountain, I walked through the valley, and I fell down and got up so many times. From some of my falls, my lifetime scars will attest to my struggles.

Some of my scars can be seen, while others are not obvious to the eye. But all of the struggles that I went through were a path to gain my life experiences so I can share it with you the people who needed to hear my story in order to reach your own destiny.
 
Now, my passion is to help people create the success they deserve. We all are capable of achieving greatness. My motto in life is, there is no dead end until we die but there are road blocks. We just have to move the road blocks and move forward to reach for our highest and best potential and accomplish a higher purpose.

I believe, in a higher purpose than just counting my years on earth, that is what drives my life. I strongly believe that each of us have bigger and better purpose in life than just breathing and walking back and forth to our daily life activities. That is what motivated me to become a motivational/inspirational speaker. I want to encourage people to live a meaningful life, a purposeful life, a life of service to all humanity, a life of love and care…a life filled with personal and business accomplishments.

I look forward to motivate, empower, inspire, and ecourage your audiences to be... and do their best ...so they can have the most productive seasons of their lives.