Emmanuel Kelly | Overcoming All Odds to Achieve Your Dreams

The Lesson: No demographic factor can get in the way of a life improved by doing good for yourself and others, and host Tony's friend Emmanuel Kelly is a perfect example of that. As an orphan abandoned in a cardboard box on an Iraq battlefield, half dead, damaged physically by chemical weapons, and with no identification of any kind, it's a miracle that this enigma child bizarrely of Ugandan/Korean ancestry should be alive today.

Notable Excerpt: "As a human I've made a lot of mistakes and there'll be a lot of mistakes I'll have to rectify in the next years and forever in my life, but only probably in the last year, I've been able to really define the person I want to be and the person that I can become, and to find my purpose in my own life. Now others define me as the way I want to define myself."

The Guest: Artist and singer Emmanuel Kelly was a teenage contestant on Season 3 of the X Factor Australia. 10 years he has toured with Coldplay as a special guest, opened for Snoop Dogg, performed with David Foster, and legendary DJ Paul Oakenfold. Under the tutelage and label of Coldplay's Chris Martin, his first album will be released later this year. Along with his musical pursuits he is the founder of The Outlier Group, which aims to enable the world differently.

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