How To Find Purpose when Life Doesn't Go as Planned with Steve Hopper, Motivational Speaker and Author of From Prison to Purpose

<h4>About Steve</h4> <p>As one of the most inspiring speakers in the market today, Steve Hopper brings a fresh and powerful presence to the professional speaking industry. Steve has delivered hundreds of presentations at corporate events, leadership and business conferences, personal development seminars, high schools and universities, churches... and even correctional facilities!<br /> With his life shifting keynotes seminars and workshops, Steve leaves his audience with an overwhelming desire to want more, to do more, and to become more!</p> <p>Likewise, he’s been featured on TV, Radio and in several magazines and publications. As the Author of “From Prison to Purpose” he has inspired the masses through his personal story of turning a setback into a comeback and winning the most important game of all, life.</p> <h3><strong>The First Phase</strong></h3> <p>Football was Steve’s life.   Until one night, when at a keg party on the beach in Florida, he engaged in a fight.</p> <p>Three days later, the police showed up at his parent’s door.  The clock stopped ticking.</p> <p>The judge revoked Steve’s bond because the judge didn’t know if the boy Steve hit was going to live or die.  Would it be a murder charge, or an attempted murder charge?</p> <p>It was a bad choice, with bad consequences.   Steve was sentenced to 10 years in prison.</p> <p>He learned to fight for his life in prison.  About 1 year into this new life Steve broke down.</p> <p>In the darkest moment of his life, he remembered something that his grandfather had told him.  His dreams and goals were gone.  He felt his life was over.  Then his grandfather’s message came to him,  “Son, promise me that if you are ever at your darkest moment in life and your back is against the wall and you don’t think there is any way out, just get on your knees and pray to God.”</p> <p>Steve took his grandfather’s advice and called out to God.   He felt an immediate shift.  Meaning and purpose came over him.  In addition, he felt he was created for something way bigger for hi