Tina Miller

I attribute my success to the entire journey that life has taken me and how God has guided my life, and I am now living my purpose. I am a childhood survivor of rape, trauma, domestic violence, and struggled with ADHD and had to have speech therapy from the Kindergarten to the 6th grade. I struggled with addiction and got sober at the age of 23. I continued to grow and finished school and even went on to get my college degree, and there I found my calling in social work. Now I am an international speaker, writer, and have successfully opened 3 private schools so that I can help children just like me to overcome the trauma. I am also an author of 5 books, speaker, and Christian comedian, and I owe it all to my Lord and Savior. Everything happens for a reason, and the miraculous part of it all is just trusting God that, okay, I'm going through this challenge or this struggle, but it's for Him and it's to help His people. I use my story for His glory.

You can and you will have a successful career helping others to heal and grow. I had one professor that asked me what my major was after I gave a presentation about kids dealing with the murder of their best friends when they were little, because at 7, my best friend was kidnapped and murdered. I told her my major was interior design, and she said, oh, honey, you need to work with children. I was like, I don't like children! But she told me, you need to, because you can transform that pain into purpose. That's when I went into social work, and I've worked over 28 years in social work, education, and juvenile justice. I started out in social work, education and juvenile justice, and I have received the Distinguished Citizen Award, Senator Roussan Award, and was a guest speaker on the Kelly Clarkson show in 2024.

You can have a career in helping others as well. Use your talents and abilities to help those who need you the most. It's so important that we use that purpose to help others, and that's what I do every day. Sometimes we're just planting the seed. We just have to plant that seed of hope, and we may never see it flourish, and that's okay. Our job as foster parents is temporary, just plant that seed of hope in that child.

Being in nonprofit and seeing my private schools grow as I am hoping to expand to Ohio, California, and New York. After appearing on The Kelly Clarkson Show, what it did was open other states up and other places in Florida that want a Victory High School. I have 3 counties in Ohio that want Victory High Schools, and then 5 other counties here in Florida, and then California, New York, and all these other states that came forward. I'll definitely open it. I mean, I'll walk through the doors if the funding's there, and, you know, Lord knows there's enough kids that need it.

Helping to save the children that need me the most, as I use my story for the Glory of God to help those who have been mistreated to heal and live out their purpose. I would say my most notable achievement is saving the lives of these children. They come to us feeling so broken and literally on death's doorstep, and we bring them back to life, and give them joy again, and just love them back to life. That is priceless, so much more than any award or any certificate or any licensure. Seeing the joy back in my students' faces, and for them to have life again, it's just unbelievable. In my spare time, I love to be on the water. That's why I live in Florida, in Clearwater. I love the water, I watch the sunrise every morning over the Tampa Bay, and then I try to watch the sunset at the beach. I love anything to do with water, fishing, kayaking, paddle boarding, just laying and listening to the ocean. That's my way of recharging. Sunshine is good for the soul.