In witnessing someone close to him find comfort in the use of substances for comfort Jordan’s own curiosity spiked and over time he developed his own addiction. The comfort of dependency led him to a state that felt he couldn’t ever leave. Jordan’s talk focuses on how he overcame self-sabotage through reflective learning practice and how to have difficult conversations: It isn’t easy, it’s not nice, it isn’t comfortable, but in those conversations can come transformation, understanding and support. Jordan explores how people can hold these conversations with those they love, people on the street and themselves. Jordan Shaw is 21 years old and a student at the Bishop Grosseteste University studying Team Entrepreneurship; A newly introduced model of education that has enabled his transformation through coaching.
Throughout his life so far, he has grown up around addiction. Jordan experienced it himself and has overcome his own self-destructive tendencies along the way.
Trauma and hard times are a given in life. The more Jordan grows up, the more people he meets, the more he understand that individuals are hurting. Jordan want others to know they can make it out by themselves if they can become dependent on themselves. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at
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