One Move At A Time – Former State Trooper Turned Motivational Speaker Teaches Toughest At-Risk Youths Life-Changing Choices Through Chess

“Look, You Can Make One Move In Life – And Never Recover. A former Alabama state trooper turned chess champion and motivational speaker uses the venerable game of chess to impart a key life lesson to at-risk African American youth. Since founding Be Someone, Inc, a crime prevention and educational non-profit organization founded in 2000, Orrin Hudson has used colorful, comedic and deeply effective teaching techniques to mentor more than 16,000 students in Georgia, Alabama, Kentucky, Nevada and Washington. Through the organized discipline of chess, he teaches self-confidence, self-value, strategy, and purpose with the result that these students achieve better grades, and live with clarity of purpose.

Ontario, Canada (PRWEB) September 12, 2006 -- These powerful words come from Orrin Hudson, a former Alabama state trooper who uses the venerable game of chess to impart a key life lesson to impart a key life lesson to at-risk African American youth. Hudson, a nationally renowned motivational speaker and chess champion founded Be Someone, Inc., a crime prevention and educational non-profit organization in 2000.

Since that time, he has used colorful, comedic and deeply effective teaching techniques to mentor more than 16,000 students in Georgia, Alabama, Kentucky, Nevada and Washington. Through the organized discipline of chess, he teaches self-confidence, self-esteem, strategy, and purpose. Students build better character, get better grades, and live with clarity of purpose.

Hudson, the seventh of thirteen children, grew up in a public housing project in Birmingham. Chess was his ticket out. His brother introduced him to the game and a high school teacher mentored him. In 1999 he vaulted to victory, entering the Birmingham City Chess Championship as the lowest-ranked player but triumphed to become the first African-American city champion. He won the following year as well. The concentration, logic, and pattern-recognition he acquired from chess propelled him out of the project and away from a dead-end life of poverty, prison, and parole.

Unwilling to rest on his laurels, Hudson went back to the Birmingham schools to teach students chess and success strategies. Now, in addition to speaking to classes, Hudson also scans the paper for the names of troubled youth and seeks them out at their schools to spread his perspective-broadening message. Step-by-step he shows students how to stay on track and become high achievers in school and in life. He runs his rap: “If you lose a game, you have only yourself to blame.” “In life, you’ve got to position yourself to win. You’ve got to think on your own because the only thing that can save you is yourselves.” “No one is coming to the rescue . . . Make the right move!”

Glenn Dietzel, CEO of Awakened, LLC (http://www.ThePersonYouMustBecome.com) will interview Hudson September 14, 2006 at 2:00 p.m. EST as part of the Legacy series. Glenn has been lauded by ADOBE for his expertise in e-publishing and entrepreneurial authoring where his system teaches clients how to author a 100 page book in less than 12 hours of actual writing time and gain instant access to a New York Publisher (http://www.AwakenTheAuthorWithin.com). His Revolutionary FA²ST™ System utilizes the latest in brain and optimum performance research to awaken everyone’s personal legacy.” Rudy Reuttiger from the blockbuster hit movie, Rudy, and other powerful legacies have been celebrated. To access the call go to the following URL… http://www.ThePersonYouMustBecome.com/orrin.htm

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