The New York event, being our second live broadcast of the tour, gets special billing from its guest speakers. Where we normally have sessions led by Mike Guzzardo and Joel Johnson, ATF's go-to speakers and quite good speakers in their own right, the New York event calls for some extras.
Mike Guzzardo in this case is joining April Hernandez, who spoke last at last year's event, as emcee. April is best known for playing Eva in the movie "Freedom Writers." This morning, the sex-and-relationships talk that's included in every Teen Mania event was given by Lakita Garth-Wright, abstinence advocate known on the speaking circuit for her catchy and sometimes scandalous turns of phrase (notably "no ringy, no dingy") and known to the United States Congress lobbying for abstinence education. And currently onstage is Nick Vujicic, a man born with no arms and no legs, who still travels the world inspiring people blessed with "normal" stature to take full advantage and live the life God has planned for them.
(You can check him out at lifewithoutlimbs.org.)
One of the biggest advantages to working an ATF or BattleCry -- when awesome sessions like this come along, you're there to see it. Oh, yeah, and to broadcast it to the world at large.
Jigga gets a good shot of Nick as he looks out to the crowd
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