I grew up in a small town called Sanford, Florida. I didn’t have a completely horrible life growing up; however, as a young girl, it would prove to be filled with many challenges.
My adult life didn’t seem to be much different. I married young and had four children during that marriage. I had no idea that when we divorced he would brutally fight me to take my children and all that was familiar to me.
It was foreign to me what it meant to be my own woman. After all, I married him when I was 18; I wanted to leave home. And he was my ticket outta there.
The divorce left me alone, broken, and angry with the world for the mess that had become my life.
It didn’t help me that a few years past this horrible divorce I would encounter a series of relationships that left me even more abused and broken and now with 3 more children!!! Two of which are TWINS! To make matters worse, now I had to figure out how to take care of these children on my own and I didn’t have a clue.
After many attempts to try and work and build a business with no help or resources I was granted the opportunity to come to San Francisco in an effort to make some sense of my life. I didn’t have any money and literally had no idea how I would get here. All I had was a beat up truck, my three daughters, and the anger inside me that said, I had to do whatever to make it here. And that’s just what I did. I took off with $38 in my pocket and a half a tank of gas. Each time my truck got to a quarter of a tank I would pull to whatever rest stop was near, pull in to the gas pump and get out and ask strangers to please put some gas in my car–that I wanted to make it to California to save my life. Well…they helped me. Cause I’m here.
It hasn’t been all peaches and cream, but it has been resourceful.
My dream is take this business idea and be an example to other women of what you can do if you really want to change your life. That under ANY circumstances you can make it.