{"id":1633,"date":"2021-06-02T20:14:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T20:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-583903-1890774.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=1633"},"modified":"2021-06-22T14:02:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T14:02:18","slug":"software-ceo-is-helping-americans-manage-their-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/2021\/06\/02\/software-ceo-is-helping-americans-manage-their-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"Software CEO is Helping Americans Manage Their Debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins knows what it\u2019s like to worry about money. She comes from a family that struggled financially and remembers the stigma of growing up in poverty.<\/p>\n<p>And she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/pauleannareid\/2021\/03\/30\/how-phaedra-ellis-lamkins-ceo-of-promise-has-leveraged-partnerships-to-spare-millions-of-americans-from-debt\/?sh=28c4c4243a74\"><strong>tells Forbes columnist Pauleanna Reid<\/strong><\/a> that she could never understand why technology wasn\u2019t helping to level the playing field for the working class: \u201cI thought, \u2018How could something that is so clearly taking over\u2014something so forceful\u2014have such a negative impact on so many people?\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ellis-Lamkins is now working to change that. She isn\u2019t some billionaire philanthropist who can wipe out people\u2019s debts. But her software company, Promise, is working with utilities and government agencies to provide more flexible payment options for people who are behind on their bills.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, it was taking shame out of poverty, giving people dignity, making sure people had grace,\u201d she told Reid. Her software helps people avoid utility shut-offs, license revocations, and even jail time. And in a year when so many lost their jobs to the pandemic, Promise has been more important than ever.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe that people want to pay their rent. They want to have water. The job is to create systems that work for them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins knows what it\u2019s like to worry about money. She comes from a family that struggled financially and remembers the stigma of growing up in poverty. And she tells Forbes columnist Pauleanna Reid that she could never understand why technology wasn\u2019t helping to level the playing field for the working class: \u201cI thought, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1633"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2079,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions\/2079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}