09/01/2026
What's the best and most effective way to become successful? Make someone else successful. Back in 2019, my beautiful student Donyai was honest and considerate enough to meet with me just to tell me that she was not ready to commit to school. That was so decent and mature. Most students just stop attending class. I told her that when she is ready to commit, I will be there to receive her back into my program with open arms. Fast forward to 2024, when she re-enrolled into my program. She said those magical two words "I'm ready". She successfully completed her Phlebotomy training and moved on with her life. One day in 2025, I received a call from the Baltimore County Housing Family Self Sufficiency Program. The Baltimore County Housing FSS Supervisor invited me to meet with them about Celeebrate Us Workforce Training. What I learned at that meeting blew me away. Members of the FSS team informed me that one of their most successful participants graduated from my program. That participant was my beautiful student Donyai. The FSS team shared with me that Donyai will be transitioning out of subsidized housing and into homeownership with $38,000 in her HUD escrow savings account that goes towards her closing costs and down payment. WOW!!!! God bless her for attributing her discipline and dedication to what she learned in my course. I left that meeting with a Baltimore County Housing FSS contract. All because of helping one beautiful student become successful. F.Y.I. Celeebrate Us Workforce Training year over year has nothing to do with me and everything to do with whose lives can I improve. Success is not about you, success is about who can become successful because of your work. Congratulations Donyai. I am forever grateful.
