Shunammite Enterprises, LLC

From the outside, my life reflected strength, leadership, and accomplishment. Over the course of more than two decades, I built a respected career in executive leadership, consulting, business development, teaching, and mentoring. As the founder of Smith Equity & Financial Consulting Group, Inc., I have had the privilege of serving Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies with strategic insight, excellence, and precision.

Yet success does not always reveal the whole story. Long before I became a business leader, I was an 11-year-old girl standing in a hallway, listening as my father told my mother, “If I give you money, then I will not be able to take care of my family.” In that moment, something in me shifted. Those words were not simply about provision. To a child, they raised deeper questions about belonging, worth, identity, and whether I was truly seen and chosen.

What followed shaped me in profound ways. Divorce, instability, the loss of home, and the pain of feeling replaced left wounds that reached far beyond childhood. I learned how to achieve, persevere, and remain outwardly strong, but I also came to understand that success cannot heal what has never been confronted. There is a difference between functioning well and being whole.

My life changed when I began the deeper work of healing. Through faith, prayer, the Word of God, and the honest process of confronting the beliefs and wounds that had shaped me, pain became the doorway to restoration. That journey gave birth to Shunammite Enterprises, Becoming Whole Institute, and Becoming Whole Ministries. These platforms exist because I believe true transformation begins within—and that when identity is restored, healing becomes possible, purpose becomes clearer, and lives can be rebuilt from the inside out.