2025 Inspirational Speaker of the Year – Finalist

Charles
Achampong

Enabling Leaders to Think Clearly When Urgency Is Loud.

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For Those Ready to Live, Not Just Rush

We live in a world that worships speed. Faster. More. Now. Charles Achampong helps ambitious people slow down just enough to actually feel their lives again. Through speaking and storytelling, he shows how pausing is not quitting. It is choosing clarity over chaos, presence over pressure, and meaning over motion. His work is about one simple shift: stop racing through life, and start living it on purpose.

For Those Ready to Live, Not Just Rush

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The Journey That Changed Everything

Discover how one family pressed pause and found a world of meaning.

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Award-Winning. Impact-Driven. Unforgettable.

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Feb 23, 2026

I’ve Been Meaning to Write This

A lot happened this year. None of it explains why I started this podcast. When We Pause does.

Nov 16, 2025

Becoming Ready

I have not written here since September. Not because I forgot. Not because I ran out of ideas. But because I needed space to think and didn’t rush to fill it.

Sep 3, 2025

What I Learned Backstage at Cirque du Soleil

What do you do when the show doesn’t go on? Cirque paused. And that pause said more than the performance ever could.

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The Journey That Changed Everything

The Journey That Changed Everything

Award-Winning. Impact-Driven. Unforgettable.

Words That Move

Recent Blogs

I’ve Been Meaning to Write This

Becoming Ready

What I Learned Backstage at Cirque du Soleil

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Meet Charles.

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Meet Charles.

The Journey That Changed Everything

The Journey That Changed Everything

Award-Winning. Impact-Driven. Unforgettable.

Words That Move

Recent Blogs

I’ve Been Meaning to Write This

Becoming Ready

What I Learned Backstage at Cirque du Soleil

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