teen mom Archives - Summer Owens S.O. What! https://summerowens.com/tag/teen-mom/ S.O. What! Tue, 26 Aug 2025 03:19:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://i0.wp.com/summerowens.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/cropped-Summer-Owens-S.O.-What.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 teen mom Archives - Summer Owens S.O. What! https://summerowens.com/tag/teen-mom/ 32 32 152051023 Teen Mom to University Dean: Linda Hall Journey of Resilience and Leadership https://summerowens.com/teen-mom-to-university-dean-linda-hall-journey-of-resilience-and-leadership/ https://summerowens.com/teen-mom-to-university-dean-linda-hall-journey-of-resilience-and-leadership/#respond Sun, 08 Dec 2024 09:30:06 +0000 https://summerowens.com/?p=23976 8/22/25 Update: Due to the Dismantling DEI Departments Act, the University of Memphis closed the Multicultural Affairs Office, impacting and upsetting thousands of students and alumni who benefit from that office, Dean Hall, and staff. ___________________________________________________________________________________ In this episode of S.O. What! Success Stories, I had the honor of talking to one of my mentors […]

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]]> https://summerowens.com/teen-mom-to-university-dean-linda-hall-journey-of-resilience-and-leadership/feed/ 0 23976 Building Hope Through Resilience https://summerowens.com/building-hope-through-resilience/ https://summerowens.com/building-hope-through-resilience/#respond Sun, 29 Oct 2023 10:00:11 +0000 https://summerowens.com/?p=23565 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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]]> https://summerowens.com/building-hope-through-resilience/feed/ 0 23565 Persevere to the End https://summerowens.com/how-to-be-successful-in-life/ https://summerowens.com/how-to-be-successful-in-life/#respond Sat, 22 May 2021 00:00:53 +0000 https://summerowens.com/?p=20045 Today as I celebrate my 42nd birthday, I also reflect on my 15th birthday when an incident that happened so fast changed everything about my life. And made me question if I would be successful. What I learned in my journey, 26 years after becoming a mother, is that to be successful in life you […]

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]]> https://summerowens.com/how-to-be-successful-in-life/feed/ 0 20045 10 years later. 5 More Life Lessons from My Story https://summerowens.com/5-life-lessons-from-my-story/ https://summerowens.com/5-life-lessons-from-my-story/#respond Tue, 18 May 2021 00:00:48 +0000 https://summerowens.com/?p=20041 Ten years ago, I shared my story and life lessons in my first book, Life After Birth: A Memoir of Survival and Success as a Teenage Mother. I had no idea then what would happen when I told it. A new chapter in my life started back then. And as I celebrate an anniversary like […]

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]]> https://summerowens.com/5-life-lessons-from-my-story/feed/ 0 20041 Single Moms: Keep Your Dreams Alive https://summerowens.com/keep-your-dreams-alive/ https://summerowens.com/keep-your-dreams-alive/#respond Wed, 12 May 2021 00:00:55 +0000 https://summerowens.com/?p=20037 Single mothers out there, keep your dreams alive because God fulfills them. By the time I went to graduate school to study for my MBA, I had already achieved a lot in my career and life. Now, I wanted a relationship for myself and a father figure for my son. I had dated in high […]

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]]> https://summerowens.com/keep-your-dreams-alive/feed/ 0 20037 Graduating Against the Odds: How I Made it to My 20 Year College Graduation Anniversary https://summerowens.com/graduating-against-the-odds/ https://summerowens.com/graduating-against-the-odds/#respond Tue, 04 May 2021 01:02:52 +0000 https://summerowens.com/?p=20233 It’s graduation season, and many students are graduating against the odds. Financial challenges, lack of support, illnesses, competing priorities, too many responsibilities and so many other obstacles keep many people from completing college. But so many did it in spite of the odds. Many overcame tremendous obstacles, self-doubt, and doubt from others…but you did it! […]

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]]> https://summerowens.com/graduating-against-the-odds/feed/ 0 20233 Remember this when you feel like giving up https://summerowens.com/when-you-feel-like-giving-up/ https://summerowens.com/when-you-feel-like-giving-up/#respond Wed, 28 Apr 2021 00:00:31 +0000 https://summerowens.com/?p=20031 Before finding out that I was pregnant, I had dreams. I wanted to go to college. I wanted to be successful. I wanted a career. Then at 15 I got pregnant by a guy I didn’t know and was soon a single, teenage mother. If you have found yourself in the same situation, you may […]

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]]> https://summerowens.com/when-you-feel-like-giving-up/feed/ 0 20031 Exploring Relationships As A Single Parent https://summerowens.com/exploring-relationships-as-a-single-parent/ https://summerowens.com/exploring-relationships-as-a-single-parent/#respond Thu, 15 Apr 2021 00:00:29 +0000 https://summerowens.com/?p=20027 At some point I was exploring relationships because I wanted my son to have a father figure in his life. I had been a teenage mother from the time I was 15-years old. I’d also been raising my son alone as a single mother for years. I wanted to have a boyfriend and had dated […]

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