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Mary Lee is living proof that anyone can turn his or her life around quickly with
some simple focused strategies. At the age of 35 she was a stay at home
mother with four children under seven-years-old and a self employed husband.
She had an allied health degree at which she was making $27,000 a year when
she left the workforce to raise her children. She was in a difficult marriage and
filed for divorce as a leap of faith. A few months later she realized an
overwhelming avalanche of litigation and anger that resulted in her and the
children going from living in a lovely residential suburb to being homeless,
carless, and hungry. They went from the country club life to losing their home
and poverty all within a few months.
She realized then that she was going to be the one to provide for her and her
four children and had to figure out a way to do that. Public assistance was not
the way she wanted to live her life. She had done the big cry and a lot of asking,
“Why me?” but that got her nothing but more paralyzed with fear. While her
children were young, she had done a lot of writing for organizations where she
had volunteered and decided to send clips of her writing to the local
metropolitan newspaper. The newspaper hired her as a freelance reporter and
she went on to write for a number of other magazines, news and professional
publications.
From there she earned a certification as an association management executive
and went on to be a self employed public relations consultant, business writer,
and then a trade association executive director, all work she did from home.
When she needed adequate benefits for herself and the children after the
divorce, she decided to enter the corporate world. She taught herself how to
network, write grants and other skills and then went on to be the executive
director of a foundation. Now at 47 she is the President and CEO of a large
foundation after only having worked full time for roughly seven years.
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Mary Lee is living proof that anyone can turn his or her life around quickly with
some simple focused strategies. At the age of 35 she was a stay at home
mother with four children under seven-years-old and a self employed husband.
She had an allied health degree at which she was making $27,000 a year when
she left the workforce to raise her children. She was in a difficult marriage and
filed for divorce as a leap of faith. A few months later she realized an
overwhelming avalanche of litigation and anger that resulted in her and the
children going from living in a lovely residential suburb to being homeless,
carless, and hungry. They went from the country club life to losing their home
and poverty all within a few months.
She realized then that she was going to be the one to provide for her and her
four children and had to figure out a way to do that. Public assistance was not
the way she wanted to live her life. She had done the big cry and a lot of asking,
“Why me?” but that got her nothing but more paralyzed with fear. While her
children were young, she had done a lot of writing for organizations where she
had volunteered and decided to send clips of her writing to the local
metropolitan newspaper. The newspaper hired her as a freelance reporter and
she went on to write for a number of other magazines, news and professional
publications.
From there she earned a certification as an association management executive
and went on to be a self employed public relations consultant, business writer,
and then a trade association executive director, all work she did from home.
When she needed adequate benefits for herself and the children after the
divorce, she decided to enter the corporate world. She taught herself how to
network, write grants and other skills and then went on to be the executive
director of a foundation. Now at 47 she is the President and CEO of a large
foundation after only having worked full time for roughly seven years.
For the FREE StartingOverNow E-newsletter, simply send an email to:
info@startingovernow.com. Share your story with us.
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