Single Mom Spotlight Lakesha Saved Her Life

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Single Mom Spotlight: Lakesha’s Love for Her Children Saved Her Life

LaKesha is not your average 40 year old single mother; for starters she’s only a couple of months away from being an empty nester. I know how is that possible at 40? Well, she started at 14! LaKesha has traveled the journey of being a teen mom not once but twice to be a young single mother of 3 and has come out on the other side. Her message to the world “Hope and Healing”, those two things are the key to you overcoming, beating the odds and truly THRIIVNG! Take a look into LaKesha’s life by reading her story and by watching our interview at https://youtu.be/lxkpsxU7ar8.

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