Born To Rise: A Journey From Setbacks To Comebacks And Lessons Learned

She was told she’d be nothing. She was born to rise anyway. What if the worst beginning could lead to the most powerful life?

Lorna Blake was born into poverty on a farm in rural Jamaica, to a teenage mother who could barely take care of herself. Abandoned. Abused. Told by the world around her that she would never be anything. At nineteen, she boarded a plane to Canada, alone, with no visa guaranteed and no safety net, just a refusal to let her circumstances define her future. Born to Rise is the raw, unflinching, and ultimately triumphant true story of a woman who defied every odd stacked against her.

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