Vanessa Smithers

Founded in 2018, Grow Home, Please encourages the act of creating a home for ourselves within ourselves. Home is wherever we are. The mission of Grow Home, Please is to wrap around individuals to support them in establishing a strong and healthy foundation- evolving into their best selves. Through passion-focused career navigation, workshops, and the harnessing of stories- of vulnerability, we foster space and services that encourage individuals to nourish the place that has kept them going and growing for their entire lives. Knowing that with dedicated efforts, they can just grow home and make their dwellings exactly what they need them to be. Through the facilitation of workshops and storytelling, we instill vulnerability, confidence, resilience, and strength into all. We have a firm belief that present situations do not have to dictate the future and that everyone has a choice to be and do better at any point in time, regardless of their circumstance. We encourage individuals to harness their personal stories to ultimately control their narratives, creating a sense of power to propel forward through vulnerability. We consult with individual organizations and groups to discuss client demographics, outcomes, and learning strategies to develop engaging experiences. We pride ourselves on delivering workshops and talks that speak to everyone, supporting topics inclusive of entrepreneurship, storytelling, self-worth, vulnerability, and passion-rooted career navigation.