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Regina Ozoemela is a career and life coach who guides business owners,
disadvantaged workers and women re-entering the workforce so that they can
experience a successful and fulfilling life, both professionally and personally. Through
her group and private individual coaching programs, she empowers individuals to
overcome limiting mindsets, take positive action and achieve success defined on their
terms. Most recently, she helped a carpenter make $20,000 in two weeks by tapping
into his wood-working talents and helping him create an additional revenue stream.
Now he’s selling his own hand-crafted furniture in between residential renovation
projects.
After struggling for several years as a poverty-stricken and divorced teen mother of
three in Nigeria, Regina is passionate about helping men and women who feel stuck in
their career and life to break through the perceptions, environment and mindset that
hold them back from true happiness. A student of motivational speaker and Chicken
Soup for the Soul® series author Jack Canfield, Regina is an aspiring motivational
speaker and an award-winning author who has contributed a chapter to Ready, Aim
Captivate!, a #1 Bestseller and International Bestseller at Amazon.com. Regina
received a S.T.A.R.S. award for her contributions to Wounded, Survive Thrive!, also an
Amazon #1 International Bestseller and #1 Hottest New Release. She released her own book Success Against All Odds on May 16, 2013.
Reviewed by Mary DeKok Blowers for Readers' Favorite
Success Against All Odds by Regina Ozoemela is an interesting book by a woman who has seemingly overcome great and some would even say extreme challenges to be self-supporting. Coming from Nigeria, she found herself abandoned by her husband and his family and left with three children. She worked and found ways to go to school, continually improving herself, until she achieved a Master’s degree in the U.S. and long-term employment.
Success Against All Odds shows that, with a bit of creativity and a lot of hard work, people can bring themselves up from bad situations and lifestyles to become effective, contributing members of society. Like almost everyone I know, Regina Ozoemela made some poor choices and was in quite a pickle when she resolved to turn her life around. Some quick thinking and some providential help from family, friends, and strangers aided her climb from poor teenage single mother to becoming a coach and mentor in the United States.
I found this book to proceed slowly at first, but in retrospect this is probably necessary to lay the foundation and background so that the reader can fully understand what Ms. Ozoemela has been through. Marriage laws and customs are apparently very different from in the US and it might have been helpful to have even more of that background information to make the story flow. Ozoemela targets young single mothers and any others who may feel trapped in their lifestyle or job, to help realize that they do have choices and should not spend a lifetime doing something they hate.
