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Best of The Steve Harvey Morning ShowUplift: Her mission is to help students excel in standardized testing and scholarship applications.Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Jennifer Ledwith. She is the founder of Scholar Ready, whose mission is to help students excel in standardized testing and scholarship applications. 🔑 Key Themes & Highlights The Inspiration Behind Scholar Ready Ledwith founded Scholar Ready after realizing many students struggled with scholarships due to weak essay-writing skills. She personally secured scholarships to fund her college education, graduating with minimal student debt. The Importance of Standardized Test Preparation Scholar Ready helps students prepare for PSAT, SAT, and ACT exams to...
2025-12-1225 minMoney Making Conversations Master ClassUplift: Her mission is to help students excel in standardized testing and scholarship applications.Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Jennifer Ledwith. She is the founder of Scholar Ready, whose mission is to help students excel in standardized testing and scholarship applications. 🔑 Key Themes & Highlights The Inspiration Behind Scholar Ready Ledwith founded Scholar Ready after realizing many students struggled with scholarships due to weak essay-writing skills. She personally secured scholarships to fund her college education, graduating with minimal student debt. The Importance of Standardized Test Preparation Scholar Ready helps students prepare for PSAT, SAT, and ACT exams to...
2025-12-1225 minStrawberry LetterUplift: Her mission is to help students excel in standardized testing and scholarship applications.Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Jennifer Ledwith. She is the founder of Scholar Ready, whose mission is to help students excel in standardized testing and scholarship applications. 🔑 Key Themes & Highlights The Inspiration Behind Scholar Ready Ledwith founded Scholar Ready after realizing many students struggled with scholarships due to weak essay-writing skills. She personally secured scholarships to fund her college education, graduating with minimal student debt. The Importance of Standardized Test Preparation Scholar Ready helps students prepare for PSAT, SAT, and ACT exams to...
2025-10-2625 minThe Steve Harvey Morning ShowUplift: Her mission is to help students excel in standardized testing and scholarship applications.Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Jennifer Ledwith. She is the founder of Scholar Ready, whose mission is to help students excel in standardized testing and scholarship applications. 🔑 Key Themes & Highlights The Inspiration Behind Scholar Ready Ledwith founded Scholar Ready after realizing many students struggled with scholarships due to weak essay-writing skills. She personally secured scholarships to fund her college education, graduating with minimal student debt. The Importance of Standardized Test Preparation Scholar Ready helps students prepare for PSAT, SAT, and ACT exams to...
2025-10-0125 min
Money Making Conversations Master ClassMaking A Difference: Prepares students for PSAT, SAT, and ACT exams and scholarship opportunities.Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Jennifer Ledwith.  She has a business degree from the University of Oklahoma.  She is the owner of Scholar Ready, an educational services company. She meets with clients online and her company Scholar Ready tutors Math, conducts personal essay writing workshops, and prepares students for PSAT, SAT, and ACT exams. Houston native, entrepreneur, and educator, Jennifer Ledwith understood from a young age that education and literacy were crucial to success. Again and again, people told her that her mother — a single parent with seri...
2024-11-2128 minThe Steve Harvey Morning ShowMaking A Difference: Prepares students for PSAT, SAT, and ACT exams and scholarship opportunities.Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Jennifer Ledwith.  She has a business degree from the University of Oklahoma.  She is the owner of Scholar Ready, an educational services company. She meets with clients online and her company Scholar Ready tutors Math, conducts personal essay writing workshops, and prepares students for PSAT, SAT, and ACT exams. Houston native, entrepreneur, and educator, Jennifer Ledwith understood from a young age that education and literacy were crucial to success. Again and again, people told her that her mother — a single parent with seri...
2024-11-2128 minStrawberry LetterMaking A Difference: Prepares students for PSAT, SAT, and ACT exams and scholarship opportunities.Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Jennifer Ledwith.  She has a business degree from the University of Oklahoma.  She is the owner of Scholar Ready, an educational services company. She meets with clients online and her company Scholar Ready tutors Math, conducts personal essay writing workshops, and prepares students for PSAT, SAT, and ACT exams. Houston native, entrepreneur, and educator, Jennifer Ledwith understood from a young age that education and literacy were crucial to success. Again and again, people told her that her mother — a single parent with seri...
2024-11-2128 min
MindShift Power PodcastThe Realities Of An HBCU (Episode 65)Through powerful statistics and authentic insights, college readiness expert Jennifer Ledwith reveals why Historically Black Colleges and Universities remain vital pathways to professional success while providing a realistic look at both their strengths and challenges in today's educational landscape.This eye-opening episode explores:Why HBCUs produce 40% of Black engineers, 50% of Black teachers, and 80% of Black judges despite making up only 3% of post-secondary schoolsHow supportive learning environments transform "weed-out" courses into launching pads for successThe $12 billion funding gap between HBCUs and predominantly white institutions from 1987 - 2020Practical strategies for navigating HBCU applications and financingThe critical importance of...
2024-11-1229 min
MindShift Power PodcastThe Realities of Paying For College (Episode 59)🎧 From financial fears to college dreams - Jennifer Ledwith reveals the truth about paying for college that every student needs to hear! In this essential episode, the founder of Scholar Ready breaks down how to make higher education possible regardless of your family's financial situation.Through practical wisdom and real-world examples, Jennifer exposes the critical pathways to college that most people never hear about.This game-changing episode explores:The three types of families navigating college costs and how to succeed in each situationWhy elite private colleges might cost less than state schools for some stu...
2024-10-0144 min
The Blackness Thread (formerly Still Talking Black)Rethinking College Admissions with Jennifer LedwithSend us a textCould the roadmap to your child's future career start with an enlightening summer camp or an eye-opening internship? Unravel this and more, as Jennifer Ledwith of Scholar Ready joins us to navigate the crucial terrain of preparing our young ones for a future packed with possibilities. Get on board as we chart a course through various career pathways, emphasizing the importance of planning and exploring the often underrated value of trade school and the military.In an era where student loans can feel like an inevitable burden, we're here to tell...
2023-10-051h 11
The Parents' SolutionThe Value & Importance of Teaching LiteracyScholar Ready’s Founder, Jennifer Ledwith, is a Houston native raised by a single mother with high debts and no child support. She was told several times that her mother made too much money for her to get any financial aid. Jennifer also didn't finish in the top 10% of her high school class, nor did she have the highest SAT scores out of her classmates. However, when she walked across the stage at graduation, she had received so many scholarships that the announcer was still reading them after she was done crossing the stage. Jennifer went on to graduate fr...
2023-01-3158 min
Creator's MBA: Marketing Tips for Digital Product Entrepreneurs78: Jennifer Ledwith: Owner of Scholar Ready, Educator, Student Advocate + EntrepreneurSend us a textJennifer Ledwith: Owner of Scholar Ready, Entrepreneur, Online Course Creator, Educator and Student AdvocateToday my special guest is Jennifer Ledwith. She is the owner and teacher of Scholar Ready, an educational services company. Scholar Ready teaches math, writing, reading, conducts personal essay writing workshops, and prepares students for the PSAT, SAT and ACT exams. It was started 16 years ago, with the goal to help students graduate with as little student loan debt as possible. Jennifer stresses the key to college and college scholarships are; perseverance, strong wr...
2021-09-2249 min