RESILIENT

My name is Elaina Kelly Smith, and I’m honored to share my personal journey with you. I hope my journey shows you that it’s possible to start out scholastically challenged, shy, emotionally frozen, lacking positive role models, without a college education, escaping from a suppressive religious order, and still persevere. I attribute a large portion of moving through all of these stages to the love and support I received from a long list of angels. I've titled this "I Didn't Have Two Pennies to Rub Together" because when I ran away from home, that's what I had in my pocket – nothing.