In this launch episode of SpeakVolumes-

thebluePrint.org co-founders Hanna G and Lisa S. talk about a fate-filled and personally wrenching journey that brought two unlikely souls together to harness personal pain as a way of finding our life’s purpose.

The tortuous path from call centers to Wall Street to lawsuits to founding a non-profit whose mission is establishing first time endowments for grassroots community charities is, at turns, a story filled with sadness and regret, the loss and discovery of identities, the deeply painful but necessary discussions of racism and unconscious bias, as well as a tale of love, respect and laughter.

But it starts with Hanna G discovering that in America, her blackness is a whole different thing.