Inky Johnson was born on February 12, 1986 in Atlanta Georgia, born into poverty & violence. He lived in Kirkwood, in a two bedroom home with 14 people sleeping on the floor with roaches and rats. One night laying down …show more content…
There isn’t much about his early life but I did some digging and found some. His dream as a kid was also to go to the NFL to make it big playing sports. He went to school because his parents wanted him to, he wasn’t really into liking school. As a child he was a moms boy, full of energy like any other kid. At the age of 12 he got some news that changed his childhood forever, he found out that the man he seen as his dad wasn’t his real father. After this his life started to go downhill, he started to go internal. Eric would go to school to clown, none of the teachers could tell him anything. He started to treat his “father” differently because he wasn’t his real dad. Then Eric started to hang out with the wrong crowd, the “thugs” as others seen …show more content…
Yes we all know that Inky Johnson and Eric Thomas are both motivational speakers and authors known around the world they have diverged in their childhood, recognition of how life hits them, and the way they want to improve lives around them. The thing is that’s not just who they are it is just apart of them, they go the extra mile to impact the people around them to make sure they have a good life. Like Inky’s coach said “As long as you make somebody else’s life okay, God will make sure your life will be okay”, and these to men are the walking defintion of that kind of person. Now Inky and Eric truly are the best in the world at what they do and I hope that I can impact people's lives like they do