Resilience
Grows Here.
Helping You Find Strength in the Chaos, Joy in the Journey, and Clarity in Uncertain Times.
Are you Ready for 2025?
When your third cup of coffee isn’t cutting it, your four-year-old tornado-child is in full spin mode, and it feels like this world’s version of reality has branched off the Sacred Timeline (Marvel, I see you), it’s time to hit RESET.
Introducing The Resilience Reset™—a 7-day email course designed to help you pause, reflect, and rebuild. With daily guided exercises, actionable advice, and moments of joy, you’ll feel ready to face 2025 head-on.
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Resilience isn’t born in chaos but in moments of joy and reflection.
This space is for you, if life just feels different—and not in a good way.
Maybe it’s the ripple effects of the pandemic that never really went away. Or the constant juggling act of ‘work-life balance’ that somehow feels heavier. The cost of living keeps rising. And finding a decent, stable job? That’s a full-time job in itself.
Then there’s the bigger picture: the world doesn’t feel safe anymore—especially for Women and those living at the intersection of Gender, Race, and Identity. Political decisions that should be moving us forward keep pulling us back, and equality feels frustratingly out of reach.
You’re not here for empty promises or privileged advice that ignores the realities of your life. You want clarity, practical tools, and guidance grounded in lived experience.
This space was created by someone who’s been where you are—navigating uncertainty, juggling impossible demands, and searching for a way forward.
So take a breath. Stay awhile. You’re in the right place.
Yvonne’s Story.
Hi, I’m Yvonne Jackson—consultant, women’s equity advocate, speaker, and single mom by choice to a preschooler. I grew up in a small town in Ohio, raised in a cult that taught me to shrink myself and stay quiet. But I always knew I wanted more.
Determined to carve my own path, I became a first-generation college graduate, earned an MBA, and built a successful career managing complex technology projects,
In 2021, I was living in Silicon Valley—burned out, struggling with postpartum depression, and navigating a legal situation at work that had me questioning my self-worth. So, I did the unthinkable: I walked away from a six-figure salary to heal, reflect, and reclaim my sense of purpose.
Out of that chaos grew SocialEDG, my workplace equity firm and Joyful Equity®, my framework for helping individuals and organizations build resilience, center joy, and create cultures where everyone can thrive.




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Thought Garden
This isn’t your typical blog filled with polished advice or easy answers. The Thought Garden is where I wrestle with big questions, sit with bold reflections, and share unapologetic truths.
It’s messy, it’s real, and it’s rooted in integrity. From resilience to leadership, joy to motherhood, these articles are an invitation—to explore, reflect, challenge, and grow alongside me.
I Want a PHD, But I Reject the Violence That Comes With It.
I want a Ph.D. I want to be called “Doctor.” I want the deep thinking, the rigor, the research, the challenge. I want what the Ph.D. represents: intellectual excellence, creative depth, and the ability to claim a seat at the table. But here’s the thing—I should not have to endure violence to achieve excellence. And…
Single Mom by Choice: Lessons in Strength and Surrender
Becoming a single mom by choice isn’t just a decision—it’s a declaration. It’s saying yes to a path that’s equal parts strength and surrender, joy and exhaustion. It’s means rejecting the script society hands us—the one that says motherhood must wait for a partner, that success must come first, that we must always choose between…
The Resilience Reset: Thriving in a Post-Election World
Election years don’t end on Election Day. For many of us—especially women, people of color, immigrants, and small business owners—the months following an election can feel like we’ve jumped into an alternate universe. A new administration may not take office until January, but the ripple effects of change, uncertainty, and fear are already felt. If…
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You can also connect with me on LinkedIn or send a quick email hello to: yvonne@socialedg.com