Category Education is key

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How to Make Wise Career Choices

Career Choices What should I study? What path should I take? I often hear these questions from women that I coach. Women, more than, men seem to have trouble thinking of themselves having a career. Some are coming out of a divorce and others haven’t found the job that was right for them. Still others […]

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Education Builds Self Awareness

Related articles: Education is Key, Baby Steps to College Education opens doors. For me gaining a Master’s Degree was not only an adventure it was a confidence booster of the best kind. I took one step at a time until I found doors opening.  I like the illustration of the Israelites carrying the Ark of […]

Why is Education the Key for Single Moms

Notable Alumni of Oxford include:J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Dr. Seuss, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and Bobby Jindal Education is Key Related posts: A Skill Will Make Life Easier, Interview with Tanisha, What Do I NOT Regret, a video, Interview with Sheri, Interview with LaTasha, Interview with Kay, SMORE-Single Moms On Road to Education “Education is the […]

Pioneering Women

I’m honored to be selected as a Pioneering Woman 2016 In 2003, Georgine Guillory started the nonprofit group to honor women in the community for their professional, volunteerism and vocational contributions and to help promising students pay for higher education. Each year, a committee selects a handful of women to honor for their efforts in […]

Scholarships and Grants for Women

P.E.O. Provides Scholarships and Grants for Women I’ve been the fortunate recipient of the Program for Continuing Education (P.C.E.) grant and it changed the course of my life. There are many more stories of others like these women who received the P.C.E.   Gail raised three children as a single mother before she remarried. She […]

Living Learning Loving a new book especially for moms who are parenting alone

Living Learning Loving Lessons of Insight & Encouragement on the Path of Motherhood by Gail Cawley Showalter    

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How to Get Your GED and Change Your Life

GED Preparation Follow a link and get started. You may be amazed how easy it is to make huge changes in your life. Kaplan Best GED Practice Tests 4Tests Related Posts: How to Return to College and Change Your Life

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Grant for Single Mom Returning to College

Single Moms Can Go To College When I returned to college as a single mother with three young children I received a grant that made it much easier. Now I am able to assist single moms in the application process for the same grant. The grant is one of the programs funded by P.E.O. This […]

Aim for the Bull’s Eye to Reach Your Goal

Set Goals For the Center Point For an audio message Click on the above title, “Aim for the Bull’s Eye to Reach Your Goal.”   Gail holds a degree from Lamar University in Speech and a Master’s from the University of Texas. She married Sam after raising three children as a single mother. She was […]

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How Single Mothers Can Change Their Lives and Their Future

  Single Mothers – Education is Your Answer First appeared in Beaumont Enterprise – Mother’s Day -2015             “What do you intend to do with a degree in theatre?” my dad asked me expecting a serious answer. I did not have the answer he wanted to hear: a practical way to earn a living. His resounding […]