Making Your Experience is a breakthrough movement that allows you to tap into your inner strength to overcome obstacles and allows you to Make Your Own Experience. We are here to Educate, Empower, and Elevate.
Cortina Hosch is the founder of Making Your Experience. After years of struggling to find happiness in Corporate America, and feeling the pressure to do what everyone expected of her, Cortina decided it was time to create her own Experience. She took her love for teaching and mentoring, and founded Making Your Experience. The phrase Making Your Experience means taking control of YOUR life, making YOUR own experience, and living life on YOUR terms. Cortina coaches people on how to find the courage and resources to step out of their comfort zone to Make Your Experience!
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Her mother, not wanting her to become a product of her negative environment, decided to send Cortina to private schools and keep her active in the community. In middle school, Cortina began to volunteer at church, participated in girl scouts and various community outreach programs. This laid the foundation for Cortina’s passion for volunteering.
The Curve Ball
Shortly after completing her undergraduate studies at Fisk University, Cortina moved back to NY and was expecting her first child. After a year with no employment, having and no direction, she decided to pack up and move to Nashville. Being a new mother and having only enough money for 3 months’ rent she found herself without a plan. Eventually she was able to secure a job in Corporate America. She married her daughter’s father and soon gave birth to a son. THEN….divorce happened, job loss occurred, and debt mounted. During that time she accumulated over 30k in debt.
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When nothing is going right in life, what do you do? Do you just quit and hope for the best or do you pick yourself up and work even harder to succeed? Iliana Roman, a single mother of three children and an owner of a hair salon, kindles the message that individuals who face adversity can still persevere in life. According to Roman’s memoir “First Job”, it is never too late to turn your life around. At seventeen years, old Roman unexpectedly became pregnant. This event led to Roman’s life changing completely causing her to drop out of high school. She was nearly to the point of no return, she simply could not hold down a proper job, and the only way to support herself and her child is working three to four odd jobs every week. Roman presents her message of persevering in life by incorporating hyperbole, repetition, and pathos.
the backbones of all fields. Paycheck to Paycheck follows the life of Katrina Gilbert, a single mother of
Robert Nozick offers the “experience machine” as a thought-experiment designed to tell us something about what makes a life worth living. Describe the thought-experiment.
“When I was ten years old, I lived with my family in a small ranch house in rural South Jersey” (Smith 258). Patricia speaks of her situation with a maturity but in her childlike nature she does not understand all that well how money is handled. Smith acknowledges that by including “I did not understand my mother’s mounting anxiety” (258). Despite that, there is sense that she knows her mom cannot buy her everything she wants. Even knowing this, she still feels she can still ask her mother for things rather than just stealing them first. Though she ultimately steals in the end, it is easy to see that it is not in her nature to do such
“Today you have the opportunity to transcend from a disempowered mindset of existence to an empowered reality of purpose-driving living. Today is a new day that has been handed to you for shaping. You have the tools, now get out there and create a masterpiece.”’-Steve Maraboli.
She tells the story of Jim Hughes, a 15-year-old from a poor family in Arndell’s Trail, a small town near the Hawkesbury River. Jim started working for his family at 6, but his family finally saved up enough so Jim could attend. He joined a class of under 90 children aged from 5 to 20. They were taught basic skills like basic mathematics, reading, and writing, and important life skills like furnishing for boys and sewing for girls.
Connie was born into a very poor family. She described herself as living in poverty for the first eighteen years of her life. She often went without food, shelter or financial support. Connie’s mother worked extremely hard to support the household; she worked shampooing hair for only $50 a week. Connie’s father did not work at all, he was in charge and demanding yet put no effort into any aspect of the family. Connie was the first in her family to graduate from high school. It was more common for women to become pregnant, and marry young than finish high school. College was not even an option for Connie because of a lack of means. Subsequently, she followed in her mother’s footsteps; and the cycle of poverty and worked low paying, unfulfilling jobs for many years. "All Americans do not have an equal opportunity to succeed, and class mobility in the United States is lower than that of the rest of the industrialized world " (Mantsios 200). It is very difficult to get out of the cycle of oppression, when the system is created to keep the poor in the same socioeconomic status. Connie stayed very poor until she was about eighteen years old.
charity work, motivating our nations teens and by her positive attitude even when the cards seem
Dewey, John (Touchstone Edition1997). Experience and Education. Retrieved April 2, 2014, from School of Educators: http://www.schoolofeducators.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/EXPERIENCE-EDUCATION-JOHN-DEWEY.pdf
While I treasure the various worlds my mother has opened to me abroad, my life has been equally transformed by what she has shown me just two miles from my house. As a ten year old, I often accompanied my mother to (name deleted), a local soup kitchen and children' s center. While she attended meetings, I helped with the Summer Program by chasing children around the building and performing magic tricks. Having finally perfected the " floating paintbrush" trick, I began work as a full time volunteer with the five and six year old children last June. It is here that I met Jane Doe, an exceptionally strong girl with a vigor that is contagious.
Helen’s early life was very much shaped by her loss and abandonment. The greatest loss Helen experienced was the death of her parents. As she was orphaned by the age of six, it left her with great grief, darkened childhood memories and bewilderment of where she truly belonged. She eventually found her position as a labourer in her uncle’s house. After working on her uncle’s farm for two years and being denied an opportunity for education, she faced the most significant abandonment in her life: being turned
She loved to read. She began reading at an early stage. When she was in middle school, she wouldn’t do things girls her age did. She would stay in side her home most of the time reading or doing her house work. She loved her mother and her to sister, to an extent that she would sacrifice what she has to help her family out.
The school that she teaches at engages families through a variety of activities and volunteer opportunities. The school has family nights, which include healthy cooking demonstrations, dance and exercise classes, and other family building activities. She also shared with me that in the school there are a lot of volunteering and field trips taken throughout the year that gets the students out in the community. However, one of the challenges families are encountering is that more families are having to have ...
The twenty-first century is the era of technological innovations and new styles of communication. With the creation of new state-of-the-art computers as well as new advances in online communication, staying connected to the world and people surrounding you has never been easier. Arguably the most popular form of online communication, social media, encompassing platforms such as Facebook or Twitter, have become a primary source of communication and the feeling of connectedness in everyday life. The conversation before two-thousand and ten highlighted many favorable aspects of social media and how it positively encourages and facilitates human interaction and interpersonal communication. However, social media, throughout the online communication