Adversity No Problem For Arletta
3 October 2019 News
If the art of motivational speaking is overcoming adversity a Fond du Lac woman has lived through more than her share. At the end of August Arletta Allen was put up in nice hotel in Chicago. She was there to receive the National Community Action Partnership Sargent Shriver Achievement Award for self-sufficiency. As a youth she endured being homeless, became a prostitute at 15 to afford food, was a teenage mother at 16 and high-school dropout at 17. She went to Moraine Park Technical College to get a high school equivalency degree and later a Bachelor’s Degree from Marian University in Communications with a minor in business. She credits ADVOCAP for helping her with housing and getting her own home and to get a Small Business Association loan to start her motivational speaking business Authentically Arletta. Now she helps out others through her motivational speaking business. “I have so much compassion for those that have suffered or encountered some of the things that I have had to go through and I just want to be an encouragement for them to know that if I can suffer through the things that I have gone through and endured that they can too.” This year she launched a new non-profit organization, the Peculiar Princess Project for girls of color ages 13 to 18 to help them cope with some of things she did at their age.
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