SPEAKING & KEYNOTES

He Wasn’t Chasing God. God Was Chasing Him.

Ron Dillon spent several years working the door, the floor, and the VIP Rooms of a Las Vegas strip club, reading rooms full of men who were negotiating with their own ruin. Before that: a worship stage on the North Side, a meth habit in California, a South Side Chicago childhood that taught him identity is a transaction. He’s been the guy holding the clipboard and the guy who needed someone to hold it for him.


He speaks on addiction without the aftercare-brochure polish, faith that argues instead of comforts, and the specific discipline it takes to survive a room built to take everything from you. No sunrise metaphors. No tidy lessons at the end. Just what he saw, what he did, and what he’s still working out.

KEYNOTE TOPICS

Hard-Earned Perspective for Every Audience

  • Addiction & Recovery Without the Myths: Moving beyond sanitized narratives to focus on the cold logistics, trauma recovery, and rebuilding.
  • Faith as Friction, Not Comfort: Exploring spiritual reckoning where belief isn’t an easy answer, but a persistent, challenging presence.
  • Working-Class Storytelling: Harnessing the gritty realism of Bukowski and Bourdain to capture human truths from high-society rooms to low-lit doors.
  • Creative Grit & Resilience: Lessons learned operating on the ragged edges of creative, music, and business ventures.

Book Ron Dillon for Your Next Event

From keynote addresses and panel discussions to podcast guesting and radio interviews, Ron provides engaging, unvarnished insight into life, vice, and transformation.

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Keynote Presentations

Tailored 45–60 minute talks designed for conferences, recovery organizations, university lectures, and creative summits.

Panels & Roundtables

Moderated conversations on addiction narrative ethics, non-traditional faith, and working-class literature.

Media & Podcast Interviews

Direct, compelling guest appearances covering memoir, noir storytelling, and navigating high and low culture.

Workshops & Readings

Interactive sessions on typewriter poetry, memoir writing, and finding voice within life’s wreckage.