Last week LBCC had a very special guest speaker host a zoom workshop geared towards helping one face and overcome their fears. Darryl Bellamy Jr. has traveled the country. His goal? To inspire students to be their best selves.
Bellamy shared some insight into his past and how he overcame his fears and said multiple times that his goal is “not fearlessness, but more fearless moments.” Tangled in a motivational energy, he used many different visual and audible additions, and he included multiple personal anecdotes from his past and from conferences he’s held in the past. A dubbed important experience in his life; While in his junior year of college at the University of North Carolina, Bellamy ran for class president. He and his team lost the election, and “it didn’t matter.”
“The dots will find a way to connect,” Bellamy says.
SLC Executive Assistant, Danae Fouts, shares their favorite Bellamy quotes; “Failure is an event, not Permanent,” “If you are here, then you have made it through 100% of your bad days,” and “Consider the source [of my fear] and if I should listen to it.”
Bellamy had multiple activities for zoom go-ers to participate in, including sharing “DTWG” in the chat when something someone related to was heard, which stands for “damn that was good.” It was clear that Bellamy is not one to mince words; he had many prompts that aimed to make the individual feel vulnerable. In one prompt, Bellamy asks the audience to share a time when their worst-case scenario didn’t come true. LB student and SLC Campus Outreach Director,Will Shields, was the only one to speak up; “I imagined that when I applied to be the SLC Outreach Director, I imagined I would have to get out in public and socialize face to face with a bunch of people, and that’s not the position. I mostly run our social media presence, and I’m glad I applied.”
In an activity about sharing fears, Bellamy says, “the more we’re able to share, the more you're able to identify what those [fears] things are.”
Check out his book, ‘Waking Up Chase: One Student's Journey to Awakening His Potential.’