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15 Years Later: How One Inspirational Teen Mom Story Is Still Changing Lives
Can you believe it’s been 15 years?!
Fifteen years since I shared my truth with the world—the story of getting pregnant on my 15th birthday (thanks for the birthday wishes) and becoming a mother at 15. The story of choosing faith over…

Empowering Minds with Resilience: Shelia Chatman S.O. What! Success Story
Have you ever experienced someone else making you see that you have something amazing.
Something that can impact thousands of lives in so many ways.
I met Shelia Chatman when she asked to meet with me after discovering my first book, Life…

Building Hope Through Resilience
Have you ever felt hopeless like I sometimes have?
Life, you know, it's like this wild adventure with twists and turns, and sometimes, it feels like we're navigating through a storm. But amidst it all, there's hope – a resilient, enduring…

What Happened When I Told It
When I started writing my first book, Life After Birth: A Memoir of Survival and Success as a Teenage Mother, I just wanted to tell my story.
Mainly, I wanted to encourage every teen mother not to give up herself, not to quit high school, and…

How My Life Became a College Course
When I walked onto the campus of the University of Memphis as a freshman and mother of a two-year-old in 1997.
The last thing I ever imagined was that I would one day be a professor on that same campus. When I chose business as my degree the…

Alicia Keys, Make-up, and Me
"Be yourself. Do what makes you feel good. Stop trying to please every damn body."

You’ll be impressed by what a 7th grade boy learned from Life After Birth: A Memoir of Survival and Success as a Teenage Mother
I am always humbled and honored when anyone takes the time to read my book. It is my story of becoming a mother at 15 and living and succeeding in life as a single mother. When adults read it, I appreciate the understanding and hope that they…