Speaking
Book Phil to speak
Phil has stood in front of middle schoolers, college students, HR professionals and people in addiction treatment. The story is the one in The Black Sword: twenty years of drinking, 304 pounds, a son who cried at the doctor's office, and what Phil did that same day.
Where he has spoken
- Otterbein University4 talks, about 200 each people
- Human Resource Association of Central Ohio (HRACO)1 talk, 600 people
- California Palms Addiction & Recovery Center3 talks, 100 to 150 each people
- Mahoning County Career & Technical Center (MCCTC)3 talks, 100 to 150 each people
- Boardman Middle School1 talk, 200 people
- Hubbard High School1 talk, 200 people
- Trumbull Career & Technical Center (TCTC)1 talk, 100 people
- Rotary Club1 talk, 50 to 60 people
From Phil's own list of past events. California Palms Addiction Recovery Campus in Austintown also hosted "A Night With Phil Albenze" on August 17, 2019.
What he talks about
Addiction and the way out. Twenty years of alcohol and food addiction, three DUIs, jail, a shooting, and quitting drinking cold turkey. "You cannot heal in the same environment that's keeping you sick."
Starting before you feel ready. He walked into a gym crying and said "I need help" to a stranger. "You don't need to feel ready. You just need to decide that now's the time to change."
Small decisions. "If your life can fall apart one bad decision at a time, then it can also be rebuilt one good decision at a time."
Second chances. The five lessons he took from a jail cell to a bodybuilding stage, and why "you don't want to talk to your buddy at a bar who's on his fifth tequila."
No one is too far gone. The blind man, the amputee and the 71-year-old widow who walked into his gym, and what they did once they got there.
Booking details
Talks run up to an hour. His audiences have run from a Rotary Club meeting of 50 to a conference of 600, and several hosts have asked him back: Otterbein University four times, and California Palms and the Mahoning County Career & Technical Center three times each.
Phil lives in Austintown, outside Youngstown, and travels to speak in any state. His focus is events within about 200 miles of Youngstown, a circle that takes in Cleveland, Akron, Canton, Columbus, Toledo and Detroit to the west, Pittsburgh, Erie, State College and Buffalo to the east and north, and Wheeling and Morgantown to the south.
To book a talk, send a message with your date, audience and city, or call (330) 314-0228.