From Stay-at-Home Mom to Making More Than Her Husband and Relocating to Spain
This episode is from the Freelance Grant Writer Academy “Cultivating Community: Peer Spotlights and Networking” with our very own co-coaches – Gwen Valentino and D Abshire!
They share about how they got into grant writing, what their biggest challenges have been, what has been useful in changing their lives in the Academy, and what they see students doing inside the Academy that get the most results!
Takeaways – they both now have FREEDOM and Choices!
Gwen shares how she has 13X the amount of revenue she has – now out-performing her husband who is at the top rank of his 22 year job. She talks about how she has options and can now be a sponsor for her kids and so much more!
D has literally moved from California to Spain in 2025 now that she has a virtual stable job! They have been able to go from volunteering as a board member to helping – and getting paid – as a grant and funding consultant to help smaller nonprofit organizations.
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