"I had been living with my dad as a teen, but his new partner didn't like me. She referred to me as "baggage." When she told my dad to choose me or her, he chose her. I really didn't see that coming. That night, I had nowhere to go. My mom was in the throes of her own mental health issues and couldn't help. I took my backpack with my laptop and slept under a bridge."
"The government didn't help me with housing, but did connect me with a social worker named Carla. I was so low when we met that I snapped at her, "Are you going to find me housing or just waste my time like everyone else?" Carla encouraged me to apply to a government program for entrepreneurs. That's where I met my mentor, Graham - the other person who helped me become who I am today."
Harry Sanders experienced homelessness at 17 and spent a year couch surfing, using shelters, and sleeping under a bridge with only a backpack and laptop. Government emergency housing had a six-month wait, and a social worker named Carla connected him to a government entrepreneurship program. A mentor named Graham, an ex-CEO, guided him toward entrepreneurship and freelance SEO work. Persistent support and mentorship enabled him to regain stability, afford rent again, and build an SEO company that expanded from Australia to the US and UK. Past family instability and parental mental health challenges framed his early vulnerability.
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