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lie things were very tough for a
while.

But GOD….

God spoke to me, questioning me
and awakening the things I had always wanted to do in the world and
showing me how to do them and
produce additional income. He
showed me that I could use my 20+
years as a coach/consultant in corporate America to start my own private business. He showed me how I
could use my love of writing to
write books that empower women
all over the world. Once I got started I realized that my set back was
really a set up for a come back.
Because of my direct experience in
struggling to make ends meet I
started to research and to take seriously the financial plight and needs
of women all over the world. I
quickly found out I was not alone.
One of the things I realized quickly
as I entered the business world on
my own was that I was just that…
alone and on my own. Most women
didn’t work together and those that
did were notorious for not doing it
very well. So I started a movement
in December of 2012 called National Day of Sisterhood designed to
help women focus on supporting
each other in the community, in
business, and in education. Since it
is very close to Christmas the aim
was that women would be deliberate about supporting women owned
businesses. Sisterhood day received
a proclamation from the Mayor of
Houston its first year, and went on
to receive a proclamation from the
Texas House of Representatives and
welcome from the governor of Texas, and most recently recognition
from the United States Congress.
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Bush (2005) and two from Barack
Obama (2012, 2013) I don’t say
this to brag. I say this because I
KNOW what a position I was in
when things got bad for me and I
would never want to be in a place
where I take my blessings for
granted. So I give back and I am
teaching other women to give
back as well.
My most recent realization and
heart ache is that women are closer to the poverty line by far between the two genders. Women do
2/3rds of the work in the world,
but only own 10% of the wealth
and 1% of the land. It was also
astounding to me that women
grow 75% of the food in the
world, but yet make up 80% of
those in absolute poverty, living
on less than $1.00 a day. I don’t
tell you this to bore you. I tell you
this because something MUST be
done to help these women. And
these women at one point included
ME!
I have since started an organization called Wealthy Sisters Network, designed to bring women
together for financial education,
empowerment and support for one
another and to be deliberate about
building generational wealth. Also
as a Master Business coach I
NOW teach women how to find
and generate revenue with our
God given talents.
Women are natural helpers but
the numbers I have shared with
you are proof that women often
work without requiring payment
for our services. I tell people often that I am not anti-male, but I
am pro-women.
We are the care givers for the
world and in order for our children to live better lives, we must

I have made it my life’s work to help
women understand their gifts and to
understand how to translate their gifts
into revenue in the world. I know that
with the gifts GOD gave me the least
of my worries should be how to provide for my family.
I know that the things I have gone
through on this journey were only to
prepare me for the greatness that GOD
had stored up for me. Just as he did not
make Harriet Tubman a slave just to
make her a slave, or Helen Keller
blind just to make her blind, he did not
bring me to financial struggle just to
make me struggle. Just as Harriet Tubman delivered people from slavery as
a result of her hardship and Helen Keller helped the blind people of the
world as a result of her hardship I am
using my hardship to empower women
financially all over the world.
God willing I will be coming to a
neighborhood near you very soon.
Please make sure you reach out and
say hi.
Dawniel Patterson Winningham is a Vice President of Consumer and Community Banking for
one of the world’s largest banks. She is