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'Reggie R. Padin (born May 4, 1972) is a Puerto Rican self-help author, teacher adult learning motivation, and clergy in the Reformed Church in America (United States). His first book, Get Out of the Dumpster! A True Story on Overcoming Limitations (2016), became an Amazon best seller in it first week of print.

Early Life
Padin was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to the Reverend Ramon Padin and Carmen Padin, and spent much of his childhood living in the west side of Buffalo, New York. When Padin was 16, his parents moved to Toronto, Canada, where his father started a Pentecostal Church. At age 17, Padin dropped out of high school, and by age 21 was married with one child.

The Dumpster
Due to his lack of education and job skills, the only job Padin could land was as a janitor. At the time, the company he worked for, was experiencing financial difficulties and ended eliminating the waste management service they used to remove their waste. Padin was asked to drive around the company property in a box truck and manually remove the garbage from every dumpster, and discard it at a local landfill. For an entire summer, Padin found himself chest-deep inside filthy dumpsters hauling garbage by hand for pennies.

International Motivational Speaker
The experience of being in the dumpster propelled Padin into action to get out of the dumpster and help others overcome their limitations. At the age of 20, Padin received a GED from the the state of New York, and began a career in public speaking which took him to places like Chicago; Los Angeles; Boston; Philadelphia; New York; Caracas, Venezuela; Santiago and Vina Del Mar, Chile. In Caracas, and Santiago, Padin saw crowds of up to 25,000 who came out to hear his inspirational message.

Inner City Youth Pastor
It was then that Padin realized that, in order to be a role model for his followers and his family, he needed to go to college. Padin enrolled in Lancaster Bible College, a small private Christian Fundamentalist college, while working as an inner city youth pastor in a Evangelical Congregational Church in a predominately Puerto Rican neighborhood in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Working with disadvantaged youth, gave Padin a deeper longing to help people overcome their limitations. Through hard work, Padin graduated from college in only three years, becoming the first member of his family to do so.

Seminary Years
Padin decided to further his education and moved his young family to Holland, Michigan to attend Western Theological Seminary, an institution of higher learning from the Reformed Church in America. During his seminary career, Padin was hired by Fourth Reformed Church, a struggling 106 year-old inner city congregation. With a great desire to help people, Padin began a series of community outreach programs to help the migrant Mexican field workers and their families. These programs included GED and ESL readiness classes, a food pantry, a bilingual worship service, help young mothers and their babies with clothing and baby items, and a yearly community-wide family festival  featured by the local press.

Corporate Career
After seminary, Padin moved his family to Florida to start a new church for the Reformed Church in America, but due to the economic meltdown during the Great Recession, and philosophical differences with church hierarchy, Padin was forced to close down the door of the young congregation. Padin was given an ultimatum of moving back to Michigan or risk losing his salary from the church. It was then that Padin enrolled in an MBA program, and found employment as a corporate trainer for one of the biggest retailers in the United States. A year after completing his MBA, Padin enrolled in a doctoral program at Nova Southeastern University to study adult learning theory, instructional technologies, and distance education. Padin was recruited to work as the dean of the corporate university at Tracfone Wireless, the largest pre-paid wireless company in the United States, and owned by Mexican business tycoon Carlos Slim. Padin graduated with a Doctor of Education degree. His dissertation was entitled "User Perceptions of Satisfaction and Effectiveness of a Corporate Distance Training Program," under the supervision on Dr. Dana Mills. Padin has enjoyed a successful career as director of learning and development, helping hundreds of professionals with leadership, management, and business communication, most recently as the dean of the corporate university at one of the most prestigious accounting firms in the United States.

Educator
Dr. Padin has devoted most of his career to help others achieve their full potential. He has served as adjunct faculty at Carlos Albizu University, Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary, Florida International School of Business and Technology, and Liberty University.

Writer
in 2016, Padin published his first book, "Get out of the Dumpster! A True Story of overcoming Limitations." In the book Padin narrates the story of how he went from being a high school dropout, working for pennies hauling garbage by hand out of a dumpster, to become a successful educator, author, entrepreneur, executive coach and spiritual leader. In the first week of publishing, the book achieved number 56 in Amazon.com's best selling list.

Nonfiction books

 * Get Out of the Dumpster! A True Story on Overcoming Limitations
 * Mentalidad: 26 Cualidades mentales para el éxito, Forthcoming in 2017

Children's books

 * Las Aventuras de Tito Payco, Forthcoming