Sharmin "Eslynne" Smith grew up as a Navy brat with her father retiring out of Great Lakes as a Company Commander. She has been both an enlisted and a commissioned spouse, she is now a former spouse. She spent more than a decade working for mortgage companies doing everything from default and foreclosure, to originating, underwriting and eventually repurchasing defaulted loans. She is part of the spiritual but not religious community and followed the call to share a vision and publsihed her first book in January of 2015, she's been trying to ride the waves ever since.