From Teacher to Stunt Performer: A Journey of Resilience and Reinvention

What made you go into stunt performance?

Upon graduating from college, I graduated during the recession. I couldn't find work that really fed my soul. But I knew that I wanted to help people. And in my journey of helping people, I became a public school teacher. So I taught special education and math, but I was working 120 hours a week, and I burnt out real fast. So I asked my school that I worked at, can I just have a few hours to myself, maybe two hours where I can just leave school and reset, come back, be ready to work? And they said yes. So I took those two hours and I used it for martial arts training. And when I was there, right when I was there in the martial arts classes, there were actually stunt performers there. And they told me that there were no black female stunt performers in Louisiana and they could train me to be that. And so I took them up on that offer, and three months later, I was a full time stunt woman.

That's insane. That's awesome. That's awesome.