My Crazy Journey to Entrepreneurship
Some people dream of owning their own businesses. Being their own boss. Not me.
I loved my corporate job and was ready to be there or some other awesome company until I retired, but God had another plan.
I call myself the Accidental Entrepreneur.
The life an entrepreneur is not one I would have chosen, but I have learned a lot and would not trade my experiences for anything. Anyone considering entrepreneurship may get some nuggets from this podcast with my journey from being a marketing executive to becoming an author, speaker, college professor, founder of an LLC and a 501(c)(3) using my story to impact lives all over the world. It has been a roller coaster ride, and I am grateful for the journey.
Thank you to my former co-worker turned fellow entrepreneur, Darnell Reid, for the opportunity to share my story on his podcast.
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I’m Summer Owens, and my passion is helping youth and young adults realize success no matter what obstacles they face. As an international resilience and leadership keynote speaker, author, S.O. What! Success Coach, and creator of the S.O. What! Literacy, Life Skills, and Character Education curriculum, I empower people to say, “So what!” to even their greatest challenges. provide a framework to help people see past their challenges and focus on solutions using the S.O. What! Success System (Overcome Obstacles + Eliminate Excuses + Calculate Choices = S.O. What! Success). Through keynotes, workshops, books, online courses, and workbooks, I use life’s challenges and my own story of resilience as a rape survivor and teen mom success story to help others confidently pursue their dreams.
Looking for an inspiring college motivational speaker? A high school literacy curriculum? A middle school life skills workbook? A great example for teen mothers? A women’s empowerment or single mother’s conference speaker? I’m your girl and will help any audience say, “S.O. What!”.
