Living the Abundant Life: 9 Principles to Move from Poverty to Prosperity

Are you ready to go to take the journey from poverty to prosperity? If you believe it, you will achieve it! Sylvia O’Connor did and her memoir shows how you can too! Sylvia shares her story of life growing up poor in a small town in Louisiana, shedding the seeming restraints that held her back, earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees, then succeeding in a 30-year career in the health care industry while also being an adjunct professor. Proving that it is never too late, she has now ventured into entrepreneurship by forming her own company Sylvia O’Connor SOAR LLC to do speaking and training.

In this book you will:

• Discover the opportunities and successes available by moving on in life.
• Understand that you are 100% responsible for your life.
• Realize that sometimes you have to move on in life to move up in life and that may mean moving out of your comfort zone.
• Be inspired to take control of your own road to success by using these tools and principles.
• Know that it is never too late to achieve your dreams.
• Find out about the power of the gifts of goodbye
• Learn from Sylvia’s story that all obstacles can be overcome.

Sylvia O'Connor has overcome poverty and has made it her mission to help others do the same. She moved to Detroit from her small southern town in Louisiana to seek a better life. There, she got an education and started pursuing and accomplishing her dreams and goals. Her past has never determined her future. Though she has had some bumps and bruises in life, she knows something about going beyond her comfort zone and experiencing what is on the other side of moving on. O'Connor grew up in poverty in Southern Louisiana. Realizing she did not have a lot of positive role models to guide her, she contacted her aunt about moving to Detroit. Her first obstacle was that her aunt did not respond. O'Connor persisted and eventually received a one-way bus ticket, moved to Detroit, and attended college there. She later obtained a master's degree in administration from Central Michigan University and holds the following certi-fications: RHIA (Registered Health Information Administrator), CPMA (Certified Professional Medical Auditor, CCS (Certified Coding Specialist), and CRC (Certified Risk Coder). She became an adjunct professor in allied health at Davenport University at the Livonia, Warren, and Dearborn Height Campuses. She spent over thirty years working in health care where she became a whistleblower exposing health care fraud. A former volunteer at Woman's Hospital in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, O'Connor is currently an auxiliary member there. Sylvia's faith in God helps sustain her, and her motto is "If you will believe in yourself, you can achieve your dreams and goals." Sylvia O'Connor is the CEO of Sylvia O'Connor SOAR LLC. She now lives in the Baton Rouge area with her husband Johnny O'Connor, Sr.