{"id":6425,"date":"2024-08-23T15:38:38","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T15:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=6425"},"modified":"2024-08-23T15:38:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T15:38:43","slug":"motivational-speaker-offers-life-advice-encouragement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2024\/08\/23\/motivational-speaker-offers-life-advice-encouragement\/","title":{"rendered":"Motivational speaker offers life advice, encouragement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/odellspeaks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Odell Bizzell<\/a> is a former college student that overcame the odds of academic stress and student loan debt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bizzell has a mission: to make sure college students get through college as smoothly and successfully as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Make sure that they&#8217;re being positive, putting positive things into their minds. Making sure that they&#8217;re serious about being students and making connections, connect with people and connect with resources on campus.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Different pieces of Bizzell&#8217;s advice connected with different people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One student learned how important it is to utilize the university&#8217;s resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2024\/08\/22\/students-get-creative-during-tie-dye-and-paint-night\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>KEEP READING:<\/strong> Students get creative during Tie Dye and Paint Night<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I feel like I definitely don&#8217;t do that enough and that kind of inspired me to start reaching out,&#8221; sophomore Toreion Leeper said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Along with gaining advice, Bizzell had volunteers play games. Those games led to students earning a prize, but also earning some valuable insight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One student said she learned to seize every opportunity that comes her way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;A lot of times, we miss opportunities because we don&#8217;t think we&#8217;re good enough or we don&#8217;t think we&#8217;ll make it, but you miss 100% of the shots you don&#8217;t take,&#8221; senior Amber Steen said<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bizzell travels across states to different schools to tell students his message. Along with being a motivational speaker and entrepreneur, Bizzell is also an author.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 Odell Bizzell is a former college student that overcame the odds of academic stress and student loan debt.<\/p>\n<p>Bizzell has a mission: to make sure college students get through college as smoothly and successfully as possible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Make sure that they&#8217;re being positive, putting positive things into their minds. Making sure that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2024\/08\/23\/motivational-speaker-offers-life-advice-encouragement\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":6427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[1065],"topics":[17],"class_list":["post-6425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-student-life","topics-troy-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6426,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6425\/revisions\/6426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6425"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=6425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}