This episode, is the beginning of a three-part series about how The EMBER Project was born. For the first time, I share my own story of becoming a teen mom at fifteen—the stigma, the shame, the words spoken over me that I would never be more than a failure. I talk about my determination to prove them wrong, the years of working and studying with no balance, the times I thought I couldn’t keep going, and what it cost me as a young mother.

Join me as I open this series with my own marigold moment, the painful roots that grew into The EMBER Project.

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