This is not just a ball. To many here, this is leather and stitches. But to me and to many young people in this room and around the world, this is a passport.A passport that has taken me from the dusty beaches of Enongu of Usoka to the cozy and rosy classrooms of FIFA UEFA to boardrooms to boardrooms where multi-million Nai Several sponsorships were negotiated and today it has brought me to you to this bed. When I was young, football used to be just play. Football used to be fun. It used to be joy.Football ...

I was 16. 16, an age when most young people are still preparing for entrance exams, playing cricket in their background, or dreaming about the glittering possibilities of college life. But my path was slightly different.Circumstances pushed me to grow up earlier than I had planned. Right after finishing my 12th grade, I picked up a job at a CE firm. I picked up ledgers.I balanced accounts and immersed myself in the daily routine of numbers. I thought perhaps this was to be my destiny. Learn accounting and o ...

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[music] So, my name is Rafiat. I'm uh I run an organization called Footsteps. I am a social entrepreneur by profession. And being a social entrepreneur means being able to take risks.But this wasn't always in my plan. I actually had a life plan when I was young. So when I was young, my plan was to get good grades in school, go to a top IV league university, graduate with like a 4.0% perfect GPA, work at the UN for like 20 years, and then start my own nonprofit once I came back.But at the age of 17 in high s ...

At 5 years old, watching Michael Jackson perform on a YouTube video felt like lightning coursing through my body. And that electricity ignited the first ember that refused to go out. That ember led to relentless please at home.And soon a small keyboard arrived. My first laboratory bench where curiosity met creativity and where ordinary plastic keys began to feel like scribes waiting to translate my thoughts and my emotions into a language that everybody understands, music. No one at home wore the label musi ...

Do you want to know the crazy goal I wrote down in 2021. >> Good. I thought I thought you might say that. I'm going to tell you.But first, I want to let you know that the idea I'm here to share with you today is about the power of writing down the transformation we want to see. Can you imagine a single moment that changes the trajectory of your life forever. A moment where you get to decide that this is where it begins.For me, the stage lights were blinding, but that didn't phase me. My heart was racing, no ...

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[Applause] moments. Moments can make or break us. Moments can actually shape our lives.It's not the big moments, the milestones, the celebrations, the news. It's the moments in between. The hurting, the pain, the loneliness, the anxiety.That's where transformation lives. In October 2010, I walked into my doctor's office and I heard three words nobody wants to hear. You have cancer.That wasn't my worst moment. Was three minutes later when I walked out to my car and sat there numb. That's when these words cam ...