Growing up in an orphanage, Roberta felt she didn't have choices. She had aspirations and dreamt of being superwoman. Roberta chose to have hope and survived by seeking purpose. Choosing to move to Maine and build her own home enabled her to find a meaningful connection to her past. Roberta shares the following nuggets of life wisdom: survive by seeking purpose share hopefulness our attitude is key we can get through difficult times ask ourselves "what can we learn from this?" choose to have hope we can find positivity out of bad situations give optimism tags: Roberta, S, Kuriloff, writer, author, speaker, community activist, attorney, Everything, Special, Framing, a, Life, story, stories, that, empower, empowering, empowerment, inspire, inspiring, inspiration, encourage, encouraging, encouragement, hope, light, podcast, Sean,