Street Smart Kids offer a unique series of exciting programs, seminars and workshops for kids designed and presented by a big kid, Gordon Myers. Based on his own very real life experiences and some of the many other folks he has met along the way, Gordon has gathered very simple, yet critically important tools, to give all kids the confidence and self awareness that they will need to make better decisions in their lives.

Participants will be left feeling so much clearer about their own place on the planet. Gordon's philosophy is not to lecture or to preach about what is right or wrong or how to be - but to share with kids, through real life stories, the opportunity to master a different way of seeing typical situations, thereby enabling actions and daily choices to have a far greater positive impact on one's life.

Gordon Myers, author, coach, proud father to a son and daughter, happily married for almost 22 years, arrived all alone in the USA as a young man with nothing more than a backpack and about $300.00. Without a single phone number or person to call, his experiences qualify him as a true survivor and so he brings a wealth of real life experience and compelling stories to each one of he encounters. Some of them are definitely humorous, some scary, many crazy and more than a few just plain dumb, but most worth sharing.

Born and raised in less than ideal circumstances in Namibia, Gordon knew early in life that the odds were stacked against him and so he developed a strong curiosity for the better things in life, realizing very early in life that it was to be all up to him. He grew up with turmoil and in an environment that spelled trouble, insecurity and chaos around every corner.

He survived or avoided the scariest of circumstances on many an occasion soon realized that luck almost always runs out. Gordon is a living example of how heightened awareness along life's less than friendly paths can be used in a very positive way. He is still an ordinary guy living what he believes to be an enviable life despite the fact that he had to overcome some undeniably daunting challenges while growing up.

We are not talking about hard drugs, airplane crashes, horrific abuse, or some near fatal disease but real experience with most of the common predicaments that untold numbers of our youth face today. The sad reality of divorce, verbal or physical abuse, insecurity, lack of supervision, violence and fear are all too familiar. He knows only too well that there are vast numbers of kids with easily fixable problems but they may never get the help they need to live and enjoy somewhat normal lives.

Having lived through unbelievable, embarrassing and often just plain ignorant situations, Gordon has learned from them and is able to pass along these lessons to those who want to be better prepared than he was. In sharing his insight with kids and their parents he is hopeful that kids will avoid some of the pitfalls with potential to destroy or severely impair a life.

With 10 plus years of coaching youth sports and mentoring kids of all ages, Gordon can relate well to the challenging issues that our youth face mostly caused by a lack of self confidence and the wrath of peer pressure. Without sugar coating anything, Gordon can still make kids feel important and show them the respect that they deserve.

Gordon is still pretty much just like anybody else, not unrealistically happy all the time, not untouchably successful but in a very good place most of the time and certainly very appreciative of it.

He has figured out how to balance life and is able to put things into a unique perspective that he wants to share with kids to enjoy some of the basic things while growing up that he unfortunately did not get to experience.

Without parental judgment, without adult nagging and lecturing and without "telling" but by just sharing his own real life, everyday adventures, Gordon will turn a world upside down but promises to put it back in a better place than he found it.