Award-winning activist journalist and motivational speaker Jeff Johnson dares the post-Civil Rights generation to stop making excuses, overcome personal challenges, and create lives filled with passion, meaning and service in Everything I'm Not Made Me Everything I Am. This empowering strategic guide for manifesting and achieving your personal B.E.S.T. highlights Johnson's unique blend of political consciousness and street-smart inspiration. A committed youth advocate, Johnson offers a lifeline to those who feel lost in a sea of choices, distractions, and self-imposed limits. Everything I'm Not Made Me Everything I Am offers practical guidance for learning how to unplug from the programmed expectations of family and society in order to discover and fulfill your unique life's mission.

Jeff Johnson is the host of BET's The Truth with Jeff Johnson, and a weekly commentator on the nationally syndicated Tom Joyner Morning Show. Johnson's interviews truly 'represent' 21st-century America - showcasing grass-roots organizers to major world figures. A frequent guest and commentator for national media including CNN, Fox News Channel, huffingtonpost.com, CNN.com, The Root.com and EbonyJet.com, Johnson won a 2008 NABJ Salute to Excellence Award for BET's 'Life & Death in Darfur, Jeff Johnson Reports' series. He lives in Washington, D.C.