I’m 69 years old.
That means I’ve been mentoring, training, and teaching others since I was 16 years old. Over five decades of pouring into lives, guiding others through storms, celebrating their wins, and building leaders before I ever thought to call myself one.

And yet—too often, people look past all of that. They judge me not by the 53 years of service, but by the 10 years of pain.

Yes, the last decade of my life has carried unimaginable valleys:

• Grief and loss that shattered then reshaped my world.
• Seasons with no income, where I had to rebuild from the ground up.
• Homelessness, where stability became a stranger.
• Abuse, where my voice was tested.
• Incarceration, where my freedom was challenged.

And still, here I stand.

What baffles me is how quick society is to reduce a life to its lowest moments. To disregard the fruit of decades because of a handful of storms. But here’s the truth I’ve come to embrace: storms reveal what sunshine never could.

Those 10 years do not erase my 53 years of wisdom. They refine them. They deepen them. They give me language and compassion for the very people I serve today—because I don’t just teach resilience, I’ve lived it.

So if you see me, don’t just see the valleys I’ve walked through. See the mountains I was able to move out of my way . See the decades of mentorship. See the women and men who are thriving today because I chose to keep showing up, even when life tried to silence me.

Your past does not define you—it refines you. And if my 10 years of trial help someone else find their triumph, then not one day was wasted.

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