<Downloadable PDF in the series is forthcoming. In the meantime please refer their Blog post>

Publication Date: June 19, 2025

Citation: Roelofse, E., (2025). Moment of Truth Playbook: Black Capital Studies: 9 Past. 9 Present. 9 Future Capital Conversion Patterns. Institute for Quantum Innovation and Impact, Qii Moment of Truth Series (Qii MOT No. 1-27, published in 2025).

License: Open access under CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0

Available at: https://TheQii.org/portfolio/ReShonda-Young

“As a child, I believed all things were possible. My life has been a “God story” — one of listening for His direction and moving when He says go, even when the path seems impossible.”

To understand why she doesn’t quit—why she believes she can’t quit—she starts her origin story with her parents and grandparents:

“My parents were born in Mississippi in the 1940s, under the heavy shadow of Jim Crow. My grandparents were sharecroppers. My mother’s family fled to Waterloo, Iowa in 1965 to escape racial terror, hoping to find something better. What they found was different, but not entirely free from prejudice.”

More than 50 years later, in 2019, she learned just how alive that prejudice remains. She’d built a successful rental property portfolio through steady work and faith, backed by years of good relationships with her bank. But things changed when her contacts left.

This is ReShonda Young’s Moment of Truth.