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Paoli
Former Homeless Mom makes a comeback to actress, singer and to pursue a law degree!
After more than ten years of tragic circumstances I met Craig Nathanson after making the decision to return to school. I had left college, due to illness in 1991. At the time I was sure I would go to my doctor, get on the road to mending physically, get some rest and return to school the next semester. But life is what happens when we are making plans, and things did not turn out so simply. By the time I started to work with Craig, I was grateful to be back in school pursuing a degree but frankly, still desperately in the throws of trying to put my life back together after facing life without a medical diagnosis, misdiagnosis including being told my illness was all in my head, and a lot of physical pain. I also had endured homelessness, the death of several people I loved, finding my birth family only to have them abuse my presence and having my adopted family fail to understand that I was desperately ill. Friends left, I lost my house, my cars and a successful career in real estate where I had enjoyed a six figure income. All of this happened while being a single parent who was bitterly disappointed over the losses of health and finance that impacted my child's lifestyle profoundly.
When I started working with Craig Nathanson , he told me simply, not only can you do it...but you must, you will do it! Simply put Craig believed in his simple formula people plus passion equals success and contentment. He knew that life had beat me up but that I had a talent worth sharing. He knew that if he simply plugged me into his formula, I would find my way.
But Craig is more than his formula. He is a people person. He also knew that the only way I could hear his message is if he offered me his hand. So he did for me what he yearns to do for all he comes across...he offered me that hand and accepted no excuses, gently but firmly reminding me that I am a gift to the world waiting to be unwrapped.
Craig stuck with me while I began to find my way, providing personal coaching, motivation, tools for success, and direction that minimized that overwhelning haze that hangs over life when one knows change is necessary but knows not how to bring it about.
Now, on the eve of my first feature performance as an entertainer, made possible in so many ways by my friend and mentor, I can only tip my hat to him, and try to keep my voice from wavering as I sing to others of hope and possibility, so that they too might experience the incredible sensation of rebirth into one's true passion.
Thank you Craig, for caring, for sharing, and for living your personal passion by helping people around the world identify and become one with theirs.
The world will be a better place because of those you touch, for they in turn will touch the world.
Cat Marrs
Singer, actress, motivational speaker, producer, activist
Bay Area, Northern California
catherinemarrs@sbcglobal.net
What can we learn from Cat' s story?
When we focus on our passion, this can serve as an anchor to move towards what we love to do.
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