GOAL: $350K

Hope, Made Real began as a way to turn support into something tangible.

I am currently navigating a serious medical and financial emergency while living with debilitating chronic illness, searching for remote work, and trying to keep my small online store, Simply Edyn & Co., alive from home.

My GoFundMe is focused on the immediate and medical emergency: staying housed, affording medication, and covering urgent care needs.

This fund is the next layer.

Hope, Made Real: The Stability & Build Fund exists to help me move from survival mode into a real rebuilding phase. That means reducing the financial pressure that keeps me trapped in crisis, paying down urgent debt, handling taxes, keeping transportation stable, and creating a business runway for Simply Edyn & Co.

Simply Edyn & Co. is my online store today, but my long-term dream is to grow it into a brick-and-mortar marketplace rooted in care, beauty, useful goods, books, wellness, local makers, community, and thoughtful design.

A place to shop with purpose.

A place to gather.

A place that makes life feel a little more human.

The dream is not small. But neither is the amount of work, funding, and stability it takes to build something real while living with chronic illness.

Every purchase from the Hope, Made Real Collection helps support that larger goal: helping me stabilize my life, continue building from home, and move Simply Edyn & Co. toward the future I can still see clearly, even from the middle of a very hard chapter.

This is not just about selling products.

It is about creating a path back to stability, income, dignity, and possibility.

Thank you for helping me survive what is urgent and build what comes next.