We were lucky to catch up with Sunday Caston recently and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Sunday, thanks for joining us today. Let’s start with the story of your mission. What should we know?

My life is the Story Behind My Mission.

Growing up in Chicago, Illinois at the age of 15 thinking I knew it all. Didn’t want to listen to the advise from my mom. Messing with a man 12 years older than me. However, we got married 13 years later.

At 18 that man told me he didn’t like me, nor did he want me anymore. I tried to take my life that day because I felt he was my everything and that life was not worth living without him. I was deceived. But I thank God that the attempt was unsuccessful.

Although, I tried to commit a murder/suicide 6 months after marrying him. I was out of control. I felt incompetent and dumb because of the situation. I thought marrying him would stop the cheating and lies. He knew that I was planning something so he locked me out of our bedroom and I think he called my mom because she called me. I told my mom that I didn’t want to talk to her and hung up the phone.

I told God that I didn’t want to speak to nobody because I was going to kill my husband and myself. I was determined that I didn’t want to live and nobody couldn’t stop me, but God and if He didn’t speak to me it was a done deal.

My mom gave my cousin who is a Christian Marriage Counselor my number and she called me. I told her that I didn’t care who she was and I didn’t want to speak to her. My cousin asked me if she could read a scripture to me and I said okay. She began reading a scripture and it said “God said”, I instantly started crying because I told God I wasn’t listening to no one but Him. So I knew that He didn’t want me to do it. I had to go back a few days later to read what the scripture actually said and it said “God said He hates divorce”. It wasn’t going to be a divorce. Oh WOW… but I thank God that He saved me and my husband from what I wanted to do.

Also, my daughter was in her bed sleep, and I totally blocked out that she was there. I had forgot about my baby and how that would have affected her.

It really didn’t dawn on me the effect of that type of negative action would leave so much pain on others.

After over-coming suicide attempts/thoughts, depression and anxiety and seeing others fight that fight, it became something that I want to help others overcome.

Those are dark places that need light shed on and individuals are crying out on the inside for help and a way out.

Sunday, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

I’m really proud of me taking this step in being open and telling my story.

My journey was a hard one because I didn’t want to listen. I thought I always right.

I hated being confronted. How you going to tell me anything about me; I do what I want and how I want to do it.

I WAS not always right. I was blunt and rude when confronted about something I did wrong. No one is ALWAYS right. That type of attitude to me into places that I should have never been but because of my negative attitude I had to learn the hard way.

I really thought I was a sweet person, and generally I was until I got upset.

If I would have listened to my mom and other authority figures I believe that a lot of the things that I went through could have been avoided.

One day I really looked at myself and said okay to myself, you keep doing all this stuff, dating people that you know you shouldn’t, smoking weed, drinking alcohol can you explain to me how that makes sense.

I begin to think about that and focus on why I was doing that. Smoking weed (1 or 2 puffs) I would be so high it really didn’t make any sense. Drinking to drown out why I kept dating people that I had to argue with. I had to make a firm decision to stop or keep going down that spiral whole.

I actually became honest with myself, prayed asking God to help me and was strong enough to say okay enough is enough. Some days were tougher than other’s but with God all things are possible. I kept telling myself no you are not going to do, I don’t care how bad you wanna do it, you are not going to do it.

I had to stay away from the men that I was involved with. I wanted to be better for me.

It’s not a struggle anymore.

I have changed the music that I listen to, I don’t go tot the places that use to go to. I have a community of people that love me and want the best for me.

I belong to a church that believes in Jesus Christ, God the Father and the Holy Spirit.

I’m at the point in my life I’ve tried everything else and now I’m trusting in Jesus; the bible states He will never leave me nor forsake and I believe that.

Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?

December 18, 2008 I graduated from Minneapolis Community Technical College (Business Management Program: Associates of Applied Science).

Instead of continuing my education which would have lead me to open up my own business, I applied for a job with Wells Fargo Home Mortgage so I could help a friend financially. The plan was to work part-time for a few months but that is not what happened.

I actually started working for Wells Fargo on the same day of my graduation. It was not a part-time position it was full-time and I was a temporary employee. The pay was great and I lost my ambition to start my own business because the pay was great at the time.

I began to meet new people at Wells Fargo that inspired me to apply for a permanent position. I got hired as a full=time employee (02/15/2010) and began a career there.

After many years of feeling like a family it started to become more like a broken family atmosphere. I felt the change but there was nothing that I could do because the new regime had taken control. I felt stuck because there was no more advancement for me. All of my colleagues and people that I trained were moving on to bigger and better positions. I felt the sting of “if you see something say something.” I said somethings to HR about the things that I saw that wasn’t fair to me or other minorities with in Wells Fargo and upper management didn’t like that. I felt like I was being punished for speaking out.

Wells Fargo started laying of individuals because of COVID-19 and the hike of interest. I was one of the ones laid off.

Once that happened, I began to start looking at having my own business again. So I thought about working in the Community where I can be affective. I could talk to individuals about what is needed in the Community. I started going out to the Community in North Minneapolis and asking questions like what is needed. Housing, Jobs, and other resources were among the main things that I was getting feedback on. I began to think how I could be of help and I begin working on a Non-Profit named Established Resources.

However, I noticed a bigger problem on the Northside. The a lot of the people were dealing with issues far worse than housing and jobs, they were dealig with Suicidal attempts, thoughts, depression and anxiety. I was in AWE because I have dealt with the same issues in the past. But what I didn’t see was organizations out there trying to help the people.

After getting the name registered with the MN Secretary of State, got an EIN Number, Checking Account, applied for grants and going to Organizations to see if I could collaborate with them. I ran into a brick wall with The Dislocated Workers of MN whom I had joined forces with. I was told that I couldn’t have a non-profit Organization and be in their program.

I thought “Oh My God”, 8 months have gone by and now I have to come up with another plan. I started talking to God about the situation and it was like keep moving, keep the same concept just change the name. That’s how “Tiny Steps Ncorporated” came to light.

Can you open up about how you funded your business?

I used my Servance, unemployment and sold stock to fund my business.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.tinystepsncorporated.com
• Instagram: TinyStepsNcorporated
• Facebook: Tiny Steps Ncorporated
• Twitter: TinyStepsNorcorporat

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