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15 Years Later: How One Inspirational Teen Mom Story Is Still Changing Lives

Summer Owens — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 18:18:43 +0000

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 fear, and of rewriting my future when most thought it was already written. When I […]

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Empowering Minds with Resilience: Shelia Chatman S.O. What! Success Story

Summer Owens — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 09:30:21 +0000

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 After Birth: A Memoir of Survival and Success as a Teenage Mother. She […]

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Building Hope Through Resilience

Summer Owens — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 10:00:11 +0000

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 hope that lights up our path. Three years ago, I celebrated the 10th anniversary […]

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What Happened When I Told It

Summer Owens — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 06:15:15 +0000

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 show her that she could have everything she could […]

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How My Life Became a College Course

Summer Owens — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 02:31:11 +0000

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 next year, I never thought I would […]

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Alicia Keys, Make-up, and Me

Summer Owens — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 06:17:22 +0000

"Be yourself. Do what makes you feel good. Stop trying to please every damn body."

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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

Summer Owens — Sun, 07 Dec 2014 03:32:14 +0000

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 find nuggets to help them overcome obstacles they […]

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