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The smartest decision I have ever made was, believing in ME!  As a kid growing up in Flint Michigan every morning I woke up excited to go to school.  Teachers were unquestionably my best friends and played a great part in my academic success.  From my first day at Pierson Elementary until I graduated from Northwestern High School, “education” was a safe haven for me and I decided to become a leader who refused to become a victim of circumstance.

The reality of being raised in one of the most dangerous cities in America greeted me every day I opened the front door and would eventually kick it in.  My cities reputation went from one that thrived as a major player in the auto industry to suffering from disinvestment, depopulation and urban decay by the late 20th century.  The devastating effects left Flint spinning in poverty, drugs, and crime.  I wanted nothing to do with the chaos in my community.   I discovered a peace and strength at school.  I loved learning new things and worked hard to exceed expectations.  Unfortunately, I was often the student that paid attention but no one paid attention to.  The students that didn’t want to be in school got the most attention and I found myself reprimanding my peers for taking away from my education.  From the tender age of 16, a professional was born. Selected to participate in my High School’s newly adopted Co-Op Program, I began working at National Bank of Detroit in the Contract Collections Department. I was a three year National Honor Society student and only by accident encountered urban school recruiters from Michigan State University visiting our School. I had no idea graduating number four of 187 students from Flint Northwestern High School in 1994, would send me to Michigan State University on academic probation.

Now that I am a college student, it hit me! How will a pay for such a deserving education? I was no stranger to hard work. Knowing college isn’t free and not having the mental or financial resources to guide me to and through higher education I nurtured my working relationships and worked hard and often until I positioned both my undergraduate and graduate tassels from the right side of my cap to the left.

Gripping my glass half-full, I sipped slowly on the realization; I will be paying for this education the rest of my life. An incredibly scary reality, even for an educated woman destined to succeed at any cost. Instead of folding up from student loan’s monthly blow of incredible force, I became a renegade of productivity. I set forth to pay my experience forward and designed a program that will build a community of future leaders, today. Using funds and sources from Capital Financial Resources L.L.C., an affordable tax and accounting Service Company I started in Ohio in 2002, I became obsessed with sourcing. With such high demand for higher education and low supply of financial resources, I found it necessary to shift gears and build academic supporting programs educating students who also made the decision to believe in themselves.

Believing in the power of one, coupled with my favorite quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being”, I will continue to grow, learn, reach one and teach one.

Jaquetta Jones President and CEO Capital Financial Resources L.L.C.