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Yes, I am doing things to try to help fix this gap. I’m thinking about every one of you that doesn’t have my advantages and it weighs heavy on my heart. The idea that my achievements were easier because of the demographic I fall under isn’t lost on me. I felt that #BLM was important enough to not be blended in with my story. I did drop a line where I referenced that I’m privileged. The reason I’m following up to that piece is because the #BLM movement has altered my perspective, and I don’t think I addressed my advantages enough in my article. I actually wrote a whole prior blog piece and corresponding podcast episode on my GED success story titled Bachelor’s Degree Required My Story From GED to Microsoft and Google. I just think we all need to be aware that the abilities to achieve and reach success by merely putting in the hard work… well, that’s not an advantage everyone has.

I earned my achievements and my parents earned their success too. Thinking about it more, the privilege exists generationally, even if earned and deserved. I am white, American, and although my parents had me at 18 and were’t middle-class for the majority of my childhood, they worked their way there and are now successful. I know that’s a luxury that comes with the success itself, and age… And if I’m being completely honest, I know my confidence in stating that I’m a success story also comes with some privilege. I’m 35, and it honestly took me until this year to be able to say it with confidence and without shame. The eBook for Lost Girl is being offered at a promotional price during the 2023 Kickoff Event, and 100% of any proceeds will go toward Girls of Legacy fundraising efforts.I’m a GED success story.

GED SUCCESS STORY PROFESSIONAL

Through her own matched funding, the program has been able to support ten Class of 2022 Title 1 high school graduates through partial scholarships and mentoring in college and professional development/training programs.

Rebecca was inspired by promising young women through her work in the inner city and started Girls of Legacy in 2022, her signature initiative. Along with her husband, she is also the co-founder of the nonprofit organization LaunchPad, which serves disadvantaged inner-city youth through educational programs and mentoring.īecause Rebecca's book is a demonstration of hope and empowerment for young at-risk women, Lost Girl is being relaunched to coincide with the 2023 Girls of Legacy Kickoff Event on April 11. Rebecca Contreras has been the President and CEO of AvantGarde LLC, a 110+ employee human capital consulting firm, since founding it in 2011. Sharing what she learned along the way has become her passion as she reaches out to mentor others because, as she says, 'No one-and I mean no one-makes it flying solo.' Her desire to change her life's trajectory and her sheer will and resolve to succeed altered the course of her and her family's lives forever. With perseverance, faith, embracing the hard change of self, and engaging strong mentors, that GED took me from the hood to the Office of the Texas Governor, and eventually all the way to the White House.' In her words, 'We can't focus on what we lack or the mistakes of our past, but we have to be deliberate about our future. Yet despite becoming a teenage, welfare-dependent mother herself, she earned her GED and managed to break the generational cycle, working her way up to become an advisor to the President of the United States before achieving the American dream by becoming an entrepreneurial success story.Īfter setting the stage by recounting a childhood filled with neglect and abuse, Rebecca shares how she overcame the obstacles of her past. In the relaunch of her riveting first memoir Lost Girl: From the Hood to the White House to Millionaire Entrepreneur, Rebecca Contreras tells her inspiring story of transformation, perseverance, and how a lost girl was found. Born prematurely as a drug-addicted infant to a single mother in a Texas border town, Rebecca came to know abandonment all too well.

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