This undereducated woman learned her skills in the classroom of life. She took what she knew and created a university where women could learn her skills and manage their own businesses.  In 1918, Anna Turnbo Malone started Poro College, a cosmetology school which also held a manufacturing plant, a retail store, business offices, a 500 seat auditorium, dining and meeting rooms, a roof garden, dormitory, gymnasium, bakery and chapel.

She believed she could do it. She did it.

Without there being an established market, Anna Turnbo Malone created products on a scale to distribute them across the country and parts of South America.

She had to believe in herself and products enough to teach women how to use them. She had to believe it would make them feel beautiful about themselves.  She had to believe in her own abilities in order to help others.

Anna Turnbo Malone created hair products and sold them to a point of becoming a millionaire. In order to do something like this during a time when it did not exist, there needed to exist a level of confidence to get her through.

Just because we do not see or understand how a thing is going to work out, does not mean that it is impossible. We need to believe in ourselves.

This month the word is Self-Assured. This is being confident in one’s own abilities or character. Sometimes you have to trust in yourself.