From Asking for Help to Changing Lives: Simone Gordon on Community and Survival

About this episode

Simone Gordon shares her journey from asking for help to founding the Black Fairy Godmother Foundation, highlighting the importance of community and sustainable giving.

Simone Gordon was a young single mother with a nonverbal autistic son and no job when she turned to Facebook and asked a simple question: can anyone help? Four women answered. One called a hospital. One paid off a community college debt. One showed up with a Chromebook. That small, improbable circle of women became the seed of the Black Fairy Godmother Foundation, and Simone has been building on it ever since. In this conversation, HeatherAsh and Simone talk about what it really took to go from desperate to determined, why the structure of giving matters as much as the giving itself, and how Simone learned — after a chronic illness, two volunteer deaths, and a public breakdown — that you cannot sustain a movement by running yourself into the ground. This one is worth sitting with. Simone's voice is steady and real, and there's a lot of truth in it about what women carry, what we're afraid to ask for, and what becomes possible when someone finally says: I see you. I care. Episode Highlights: How a Facebook post in 2016 started what would become a 10-year nonprofit Why Medicaid puts children with disabilities to the bottom of hospital waitlists — and what Simone did about it The…

People in this episode

Host: HeatherAsh Amara

Guest: Simone Gordon

Topics covered

• community support
• nonprofit work
• single motherhood
• disability rights
• mental health
• women empowerment

Keywords

• Simone Gordon
• Black Fairy Godmother Foundation
• community support
• nonprofit
• single mother
• disability
• mental health
• women empowerment

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Black Fairy Godmother Foundation

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