Shawna Kearsley
@OnAcornBay · 4:59
#TellYourStory - A time I wish I had gone with my Gut
Wow. Wow. That's important because this woman, Carrie, turned out to be the biggest nonprofit scammer, scamming people for children, adoption scams, and had moved around the country and pick these small towns where the radar is. You know, we're small. We, we're a water town, and we always joke that people come here to hide. And that's exactly what she was doing. It was really painful
Shawna Kearsley
@OnAcornBay · 4:54
It was like tears were coming, but I wasn't crying. It was just. I was just excreting bodily everything, you know? Yeah. Uncontrollably, because it was so devastating. Apparently, this woman travels to small communities, and there was an issue with adoption scams where she would offer adoptions. They start a non profit is one of the things they do when they get to the town. They usually have a food establishment
Angela Kaye
@AnngieKaye · 3:28
But because you have this firsthand experience, you're able to tell so many other people. And I know that the work you do now is favored by it. You know, you can see, you can spot these people coming now you can spot them coming a mile away. And if not, you know, anyone who wants to work with you or have you, oh, they're going to have to show I need this, that and the other. I need a resume. I need references
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Shawna Kearsley
@OnAcornBay · 4:22
She's, you know, she's stalking, making sure we're not getting too close. It's really. Yeah, that was a very hard time. That was a time when my. When I recognized that my emotions are tied into my physical responses. Like, you can throw up just from something bad or have physical reactions to what is going on emotionally and stressfully in your life. It was really quite a lot. It was really, really quite a lot