Maylynn Coleman never imagined she would be considered a success story, and she suspects those who knew her when she was younger likely would not have anticipated such a description either.
“Truthfully, I am so grateful for where I am today because absolutely everything in my past was pointing me in an entirely different direction,” she says.
She describes herself as a former bully and misfit who was unmotivated to become anything more than the class clown. Growing up in downstate New York, she didn’t really feel like she fit in anywhere when she was in school as a teen.