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I have always loved solving problems. I have this natural ability to find creative solutions anywhere. I literally won’t stop until I find the answers that I need.
I have been repeatedly presented with a particular problem my whole life. This problem keeps me awake at night and has consumed me since I was a kid. Finding the solution for this problem has grown into my life’s mission, my obsession, my purpose.
I was not able to solve this problem when I was a kid. In my defense – I was busy. I was raising my 11 siblings, devising a plan to get them to safety and trying to learn how to survive in my rather broken world.
Imagine the spark of excitement in my eyes when my community college professor asked me “What is a problem in your life that you could solve if you could create or build anything?”. My mind lite up as I thought about my biggest problem: Continued Generational hardships.
This was my chance to solve it. My ambitious mind began to run wild.
If I was given anything to solve this – what could I do? Money did not seem to solve generational hardships nor did physical separation. The walls in my apartment became covered with scratched off notes and Ideas. It grew and grew.
I was determined to solve this problem, I was obsessed..
Now, I would consider myself an expert on generational hardships. I have experienced homelessness, foster care, neglect, poverty, abuse, lack of education…just all of it.
I started to realize that my biggest problem with overcoming continued hardships was that I lacked very basic knowledge on how to navigate my world inside of a hardship. I had no education, no adult guidance, and no experience.
I would consistently try to find knowledge on how to navigate a hardship and would be instantly met with confusion and scams. I would go down these long rabbit holes on google that usually ended with me signing up for a scam. Government resources seemed to confuse me more with their complex language and terribly built sites. How and where do I find this knowledge?
I thought…What if there was an easily accessible hub of life hacks, lived wisdom and resources on how to navigate hardships that I could turn to in my most difficult moments. A platform of knowledge that would guide me to what I needed to overcome my hardship.
What if I could solve this problem by creating a library of StreetSmart knowledge?
Want to help me do this?
