Kasey

When Kasey found out she had cancer in 2006, she felt she no longer had a future.

Even after surgery and chemotherapy, her prognosis was grim: she was given just two years to live. “I was told I was going to die,” she says.

Kasey had worked as an executive recruiter, but no longer felt she had much to offer potential employers. To add to her stress, she was also caring for her 92-year-old mother.

Then Kasey saw an advertisement in her local paper for a women’s self-employment program. She signed up, and everything changed.

“The first day I came home I thought, ‘I can take on the world. This is going to be the answer to all my prayers.’”

Today, Kasey has not only beaten the odds of her prognosis, she’s launched her own interior design business, All Things Home, which produces custom-sewn home décor products.

“The program has changed my life”, says Kasey. “It has given me the skills I need to run my own business as well as the confidence to do it. One of the most important things I learned about myself is that I actually can do it. I have the inner strength to do it.”