Let me tell you a few things I’ve been told—or believed—were impossible:

Taking over a nonprofit with zero experience and a baby on my hip?
Impossible.

Adding Culpeper to our Fauquier-only council and expanding into Madison and Rappahannock?
Definitely impossible.

Growing even more—bringing Girls on the Run to Stafford, Spotsylvania, and Fredericksburg—during a global pandemic?
Come on… impossible.

They said you can’t safely run after-school programming during a pandemic.
They said there’s no way a small, grassroots nonprofit could survive a worldwide shutdown.
They said you can't grow during times like that.
That you definitely can’t hire a staff person… let alone add another one.

I believed some of those things for a minute.

But then I remembered one of the very first promises I made:

I will never turn a girl away because of money.
That was my first “impossible.”
And I meant it. Still do.

I believed if we put girls first—and shared the why—this amazing community would show up.
And you have. Every single time.

Sometimes people ask me,
“How do you run a nonprofit and homeschool your daughter?”
I don’t have a great answer.

But here’s the truth:

It’s not neat. It’s not perfect.
Sometimes the dishes aren’t done. Sometimes I send emails at 2 a.m.
But I get to show my daughter what it looks like to chase a calling.
I get to show her what purpose looks like. What heartwork looks like.

And I get to show her that “impossible” is just a word.

Each season, I watch this program do the impossible—again and again:

Girls who used to cry in the bathroom before school?
Now leading team cheers at the starting line.

Girls who’ve never run before?
Now encouraging each other mile after mile.

Girls who felt invisible?
Now realizing they are powerful, seen, and so worthy.

Oh—and while we’re talking about impossible things?

Try writing a grant for two pallets worth of running shoes… and then trying to fit them in your garage for an embarrassingly long time without your husband losing his mind.
(Okay, maybe that was totally impossible—shout out to Culpeper Baptist Church for coming to the rescue and storing those shoes until we could get them to all our girls. You saved my marriage. 😂)

This is the next step on our Path to Possibility—not just for the girls we serve, but for all of us.

To believe in more.
To grow with grit.
To run toward the hard things.
And to keep going when everyone else says we can’t.

We’re not just walking this path anymore.
We’re running. Together.

💥 What’s your “impossible”?
Let’s rewrite the ending together.

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