Meet Samantha Mixon | Contract employee

We had the good fortune of connecting with Samantha Mixon and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Samantha, as a parent, what have you done for you children that you feel has had the most significant impact?
I think the most important thing that I’ve done as a parent is getting my child in church before I was diagnosed. Therefore by the ageof seven, I was able to talk to her about heaven although she really didn’t understand but she knew from Church it was a good place.

Alright, so let’s move onto what keeps you busy professionally?
You could say I’m the jack of all trades but the master of none. If I come across something I don’t know how to do, I Google until I learn it and then I go do it. I ended up running a hotel and restaurant on Saint Simons Island. We were 2012 tripadvisitors top 25 hotels in the United States, and top 10 romantic inns in the USA.

When I was 14 my parents underwent a divorce. For me going into high school, we were basically homeless. I used to steal clothes to try to fit in. I did the most ungodly things an I do regret them, at the same time I wonder why I did it. I didn’t need those things. Of course I learned it was wrong, but I’m not sure I learned why I did it

I promised myself that I would not be like my parents, I always wanted my independence.

I went to Georgia State University graduated Cum Laude in 2002, by 2004, I had graduated and was pregnant with my daughter in the director of HR for a subprime finance company outside of Atlanta.

I moved to Saint Simons Island Georgia with my daughter and her father when my daughter was 18 months old. She’s my world, the reason I get up every day.

I never hid anything from my daughter. I told her I had 12 to 18 months to live. We talked to her about heaven. Her father and I who had split up the previous year, put aside our differences for the sake of Karley.

Her entire life she’s grown up thinking that I’m going to die the next day, which to a younger child can give them fear of their own mortality. She has been living with us for 12 years. A few years she slept in my bed every night making sure I was still breathing.

When she went off to college she was worried about me living on my own. I felt so bad that she worried,I’ve since met I moved in with someone who’s been amazing to me and I don’t know what I would do without him.

We are just so different. But I’m here, I’m breathing, and cancer may have won a lot of battles but it has not won the war. And for that I thank God because I’ve seen his work first hand. I’ve seen what me getting Cancer has trickled down to

And throughout my journey I have died. And come back from that. Who was accidental. But the most important thing was my daughter finding her way to God and letting him live and grow inside her, and trying to keep the faith that no matter what happens, God will take care of her. She’ll be 21 in January.

If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to?
I would definitely go to the Hard Rock Cafe because it’s so iconic. I would also go to the sundial. And if they were staying a week, there is the world of Coca-Cola, Six Flags, the Georgia Aquarium, Helen Georgia, Bones, concerts., CNN Center. Too much to name!

Who else deserves some credit and recognition?
My parents. My mother is with me at every appointment except for one. She and my father sat aside their differences from divorce to help me through the hardest time of my life. Although my father has passed, back in 2021, his presence is always with us. The two of them may have not been able to have lived with each other, but they were the loves of each other’s lives. You could make a movie from it.

Website: https://samlmixon.blogspot.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/samleighmixon/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samlmixon

Twitter: @mixon_samantha

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/samlmixon/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@MixonMotivations/playlists

Other: I have stage 4 lung cancer and received a terminal diagnosis in 2012. I’ve put my story out there in so many ways. Now, 12 years later I’m applying for my master’s. I am learning digital creation and I’m an advocate for lung cancer and family.