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Founder and CEO lived the life of her clients, now helps them turn it around e birth of Why Not Prosper, according to founder and CEO Reverend Michelle Simmons, came from a vision she had in 2001 during her second year of sobriety. She had asked the pastor at her church in Philadelphia for help nding a house to live in so that she could get her kids back. It so happened that the church owned an empty house, a parsonage, and was willing to oer it to Simmons. When she set foot in the house, she looked around, saw the empty rooms, and God spoke to her.
“In that house, the Lord spoke to me and he said, ‘Open up a house for women coming out of prison,’” she recalls. Her rst stop was the library to read up on starting a nonpro t, a task she hopes others will be able to replicate with the release of her third book in 2016, titled I Started a Transitional Center and You Can, Too. Fittingly, her latest publication is a 181-page manual designed to meticulously walk readers through the process of starting a program just like Why Not Prosper. “No matter what you go through, you can make it,” Simmons says of the theme of her rst two books. Her third proves through concrete evidence that she lives by her philosophy.
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