SaaS Dads S2/E - 04 : She Was a Teen Mom on Welfare, Now She's a 2x SaaS Gold Award Winner

SaaS Scaling Secrets Unlocked · Apr 1, 2026 · 53m

This episode hit me in ways I didn't expect.

Sherist Rodriguez got pregnant at 18. Divorced with a 2 year old and a newborn by 21. No college degree. Grew up on welfare in a home full of trauma and abuse.

Her kids spent their nights and weekends in a hospital doctor's lounge because she was working every hour she had just to keep them fed. She didn't know what a depression was until she was already deep in one. Years later the stress caught up and she had a full nervous breakdown.

Then a traumatic head injury almost two years ago that changed how she sees everything. But she kept going. She…