When Kelly became a Fellow, she had recently left an executive role at a Fortune 50 company to start Unshattered, a social enterprise that helps women win their fight against addiction through job training and employment. She describes her Praxis experience as a redemption of ambition—a turning point from falsely believing that she couldn’t have big dreams in the nonprofit world. “I thought I had to play small this time. One of the key things I learned at Praxis was to lean into my ambition and calling in a healthy way.”

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Through the program, Kelly adopted practices to lead with a focus on the restoration of people rather than organizational growth. She also found a community willing to encourage her in this script. “It felt like I had come home. Praxis is the community I had been looking for my whole life.” In 2020, Christy Singleton, a Praxis Mentor, joined the board at Unshattered.

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In 2019, Unshattered has received recognition by the White House, landed on Huffington Post’s 16 Style and Beauty Gifts that Give Back list, grown their sales by over 30% and donations by 1,000%, and started the process of closing on a new property. More importantly, their model of holistic development has led to incredible success for their employees resulting in zero relapses.

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