Another episode of Someone Like You is ready for download. This week we meet a young man who has been to hell and back.

It's Friday, which means another episode of Someone Like You is ready for download. This week is Lon Usher. She shares her insight from her 30 years experience. Check it out and tell me what you think.

This week on Someone Like You we meet Luke. A great dude who was born and raised in Terre Haute, Indiana, Here's how he ended up homeless.

Like I promised last week, we are back to regular programming and this week we meet another Covenant House California Alumni, Eustolia. She is now twenty-five years old and living in her very own apartment while attending Pasadena City College for her AA in welding.

The time has come,' the Walrus said,

      To talk of many things:

Of shoes — and ships — and sealing-wax —

      Of cabbages — and kings —

And why the sea is boiling hot —

      And whether pigs have wings.

Why am I so passionate about homeless youth? Well, it's layered. This week's episode tells my first experience that unlocked a much more personal reason.

When I was twenty I hit a rough patch. I dumped my boyfriend (now Husband <3) because he loved me too much, yes you read that right and didn't want to stay at my apartment because my roommate and her boyfriend lived there. So without mine, it felt like I was intruding on their home, so I stayed out.

Ate out, drank out, went out. For the first time in my entire life, I was irresponsible with money and it got me in trouble. My roommate wanted to move in with her boyfriend and I needed to find another place to live, but I didn't have enough to put down another first month's rent and security deposit.

This is where it gets tricky, and what I buried for years until participating in my first Sleep Out. Listen to today's episode to hear the full story and I promise, next episode will follow the regular programming.

Thanks, friends!

Ps: if you'd like to donate to my 2018 Sleep Out campaign via Covenant House California, you can support me here: https://www.sleepout.org/participant/17254 - every donation instantly doubles because of Marconi Foundation for Kids

Someone Like You podcast is dedicated to answering these three questions: who are the homeless? How did they become homeless? What can we do to end homelessness? So join me as I try to find the solution, one interview at a time. 

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It's Friday and the SECOND episode of Someone Like You has dropped! This week we meet Mark. He's a twenty-two-year-old Pasadena college student who wants to one day run his own business that incorporates his art.

In his words, he was chronically homeless all throughout school and when he entered his Senior year of high school his Mom kicked him out from their living arrangement at the time, so he had to figure out where to go after the final bell rang.

Growing up he didn't have a father figure or a role model because his father went to jail and got deported. Mark's uncle (which he now realizes could've been a role model) died after a horrific motorcycle accident around the same time he lost his father. He was only seven years old.

The house he claims as his 'childhood home' had his grandmother, big sister, aunt and her son, his mom, and uncle all living under one roof. The reason quotations are around childhood home is because Mark rarely ever stayed there while he was growing up.

His story is complicated, as many of the youth who have experienced homelessness are. Take a listen and meet Mark, and if something strikes you tell us about it in the comment section below.

There are nearly 35,000 kids searching for a safe place to sleep each night in the U.S. alone, and if you're living in California like me, Los Angeles has about 6,000 youth out on the street each night and the Bay area has about 3,500 kids.

Someone Like You podcast is dedicated to answering these three questions: who are the homeless? How did they become homeless? What can we do to end homelessness? So join me as I try to find the solution, one interview at a time. 

I play better on Instagram than Facebook but regardless, be my friend online. RamblinRandol is my quest for true belonging.

Someone Like You is a podcast that is exploring the homeless youth epidemic that's currently suffocating and stumping our country. Every other week I'm going to interview an individual who has experienced homelessness in hopes to get to know how to start making a change. Subscribe to be a part of this great new journey.