Hello, me again. And this is just one of the chapters in my book I wanted to talk about, the yellow brick road of poverty. So what is poverty? So basically, if you looked through, or if you Google. Yeah, a lot of people Google, but, um, I was thinking this just stemmed off of something
Shawna Kearsley
@OnAcornBay · 4:56
Good morning. I love your title, the yellow brick road of poverty. The title actually got me here, and I wanted to get into it a little bit. I really enjoy your conversation and this exploration on the poverty mindset in the work that I do. My name is Shawna, by the way, and the work that I do is it's about generational poverty and transportation and workforce development is where I am, and those are two of the pillars, and housing being one of them
Denise Lewis
@myconfettitree3 · 4:51
They can can revert to something other than crime, to, you know, gain what they think. Like, their mindset of what. What do I need? What kind of life can I have other than resorting to crime? And so my project right now is kind of, I want to work with any age. It doesn't matter, especially the young, young girls, young boys in their mindset of, excuse me, I can't talk
Shawna Kearsley
@OnAcornBay · 3:37
Hello there. This is wonderful. I am excited about your project. I'm excited about that for you. I really enjoy the questioning and how you are seeing the world and looking at areas that need fixing and saying, what's going on? We need fixing. I want to direct your attention. I'm excited about your project. I said that. I'm really excited. I wanted to direct your attention to a book and a program that might be an interesting place for you to start
Denise Lewis
@myconfettitree3 · 4:58
And education, of course, I believe education, of course, is helpful. But you asked a question of how did I get, excuse me, how did I get through, and what did I learn? I guess, from my poor mentality or mindset. I guess you want to call it mindset because it's interesting I use the word mentality. Anyway, I'm still having coffee, so I'm not awake yet because I'm near the St. Louis, Missouri area
Denise Lewis
@myconfettitree3 · 4:52
We are always looking for answers when something is going wrong. You know, if something's going wrong in your marriage or you're feeling depressed or whatever, you know, and I find it interesting that I, you know, pretty much relied on myself. And I did reach out to a few family members, but they were suffering from the same thing I was suffering from. So I think that of the poor mindset. So I feel like that it wasn't any help