This book is my first and it is a collection of my life experiences living in poverty and experiencing social mobility into the middle class. This book also examines potential policy directions that can help end poverty. Each chapter is a segment of my life as I grew up in absolute and generational poverty coupled with a guided question to help make sense of poverty from a social science perspective. My aim in writing the book is to inspire at least one person to take up ideas in the book to help end poverty for at least one person in their orbit. My primary findings are that policy alone cannot tackle the issue of poverty, but rather policy plus relationships can lead someone out of poverty just like it did for me.