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"My first day at WWEE was the first day of the rest of my life. I learned to have hope...and I learned to believe in ME."

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Kyt

Judy “Kyt” Williams, a 2004 WWEE graduate, is a walking, talking dynamo. Immediately after her graduation, she became an intern in WWEE’s Development Department. Over her last three and half-months as an intern at WWEE, Kyt organized a total esthetic makeover of the WWEE classroom; spoke to dozens of groups on behalf of WWEE; and assisted WWEE staff and its fashion show committee to coordinate the 2004 Fashion Show & Tea which exceeded the agency’s fundraising goals by 100%.

When Kyt wasn’t busy helping WWEE, she was home working on three businesses in her family partnership. She has a children’s clothing line called “Time Out”; conducts workshops called “Success for Less”; and she is very close to opening a store-front business called “One of a Find” for holiday gift baskets that she creates. It would take a highly resourceful person to accomplish all of this and Kyt is doing it while utilizing public transportation.

So, why did an ambitious and talented person like Kyt need WWEE’s services? Kyt says, “it all started with her illness over 2 ½ years ago.” She did not have her normal energy and she was losing weight too quickly. The doctors couldn’t determine what was wrong with her. Frustrated with a series of misdiagnoses, Kyt’s mind wandered to all sorts of scary possibilities. Because her young son still needed her, Kyt persevered until a doctor finally diagnosed the problem, Graves’s disease. Knowing her road to recovery would be a long journey, she decided to move from Charlotte, North Carolina to Tacoma, Washington to be with one of her sons and her grandchildren.

The medication helped to bring Kyt back to relatively good physical health, but emotionally Kyt had a longer way to go. She found WWEE in the white pages and called. Kyt says WWEE helped her to look inside and discover that her fear and lack of motivation and confidence was preventing her from living the life for which she had dreamed and worked. WWEE encouraged her to examine these obstacles, and begin to heal. Her confidence and motivation began to come back, particularly after she realized that leaving her young son alone wasn’t an option.

While in the computer class, she wrote a business plan and before graduation she began implementing ideas. Today, many 20 year olds have difficulty keeping up with this mother of six (her oldest son is 35!). Kyt is motivated, determined, and excited. Motivated because her life is back on track; determined because she has new possibilities; and excited because she will be hiring WWEE graduates with the opening of her businesses! Kyt describes WWEE “as a healing place”, and when you see her new emotional strength, WWEE’s curative influence is apparent!

If you would like more information about Judy “Kyt” Williams’s businesses, you may email her at oneofafind@hotmail.com or you may call her at (253) 798-5284.

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