Stacie is a native and lifetime resident to Dallas, Texas and has spent her 20-year advertising career working as a Television Broadcast Sales Executive and serves as the President Elect of Alliance for Women in Media’s Dallas-Ft. Worth chapter.

As a student, she graduated with honors and a BBA in Marketing from the University of Texas at Arlington. De Soto was her hometown, and it is from there that she graduated high school as a Fighting Eagle with academic recognition. Her family owned meat markets called “Hereford Haven” and her first job was working for her father as a meat wrapper and clerk.   “On the surface, it seems like my life was easy, and normal. However, beneath the surface our family faced my mother’s depression and addiction to prescription drugs. Later we faced her untimely death to brain cancer,” she reports.

“In a way, my father was a single parent and he had the help of my grandmothers when I and my two brothers were young. It was incredible how hard he worked, but he just could not keep it up. He divorced and remarried my stepmother, who was a single mother. I have watched them blend our families and face ups and downs together for many years. We have faced the death and untimely loss of my stepbrother, my mother, my husband (to drugs), my uncle (to aids), and many others. Through it all, as a family, we have given place to our grief, but chosen to move forward in a positive, productive way despite all we have been faced with. We see this life as God’s gift and we choose to live fully. “

After her own divorce that was largely influenced by her husband’s addiction to drugs, Stacie has been a single mother to her son for 8 years and is committed to a positive, productive perspective.   She has benefitted from Pathways Lifestyle Management programs, and from her church, Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas. She also attributes much of her growth to family, friends, and industry professionals who have helped her through the years.

As it relates to Single Parent Advocate, Stacie is committed to turning her “mess” into a message of education, empowerment, and hope. It is a message that we can choose to love when love is not what we have received. And, that we are whole just as we are, even with a single parent family.

“Single parents are powerful over-comers and resourceful by nature, but depression because of grief or rejection debilitates many.   Fear cripples many as well because they are not aware of the resources that are theirs to use.   Often, single parents face these things alone because they are isolated. They are isolated because there is not a recognized social network that supports safe socials, discounted entertainment, and other needs on a broad basis.

Single Parent Advocate will acquaint families with common challenges and provide healthy perspectives, positive choice alternatives, and productive solutions via online and on site education to help them overcome their hurts. It will be a portal of help resources like food, clothing, and shelter solutions. It will deliver entertainment ideas and discounts, legal aid, counseling and medical resources to heal homes, hearts, and hands. Alongside these will be an online social platform and safe social events will be built around creating hope.

It is time for a change. It is time for us to acknowledge the reality that over 50% of America faces. It is time for Single Parent Advocate, for all of us. This is for all of us, especially our children.”