About Nyene

My name is Nyene Baker, I was born in Bridgeport, CT but I was raised in Trenton, NJ along with my two older sisters in a poverty stricken, drug infested, and violent neighborhood out North Trenton. My  parents are immigrants from Liberia. I was raised in a two-parent home up until I was in fifth grade.  That's when my dad moved back to Liberia. My whole life took a turn once my dad left. My open market drug  activity neighborhood was so influential to me at 10 years old, one night while my sisters were doing their  homework I pulled out a plastic sandwich bag filled with crush aspirins in powder form and I pulled out a stack of  one dollar bills with a $20 bill on top and I said I am going to be a drug dealer. Eventually I became that drug dealer.  By sixth grade I was on probation. End of eighth grade I saw my first murder.  

By 17 I had my first shoot out. At 20 I caught my first adult record for selling drugs. By 26 I had already had  4 attempts on my life. By 30 I was arrested by the FBI. At age 31 I was sentenced to 180 months in Federal Prison. 

How did I overcome my past and beat the odds? Sentencing day I changed my life and made a pledge to  myself I would come home and make an impact on the world. I worked on my mentality and reversed it to a  positive mindstate. I self-educated myself and I corrected my mistakes and made them right. Today I am a self published Real Estate Author of Tax Lien Certificates, a book I wrote in prison based on my own research to help  me and people in my community create new opportunities for building wealth. 

I would like to share my story with hopes that no one should ever take the path I went down. I want to  show you the power of dreaming, believing in yourself and giving you hope turning lemon into lemonades, the  power of being optimistic, and never giving up even when life is dark.