Tracey Powers

Help Tracey and Marco Move From Survival to Stability My name is Tracey Powers. For more than twenty years, I was a hard-working, successful self-employed entrepreneur, raising my children while building a life grounded in family, faith, community, and perseverance. I believed in showing up for others and creating stability through steady effort and determination. My life changed after a damaging marriage and the financial fallout that followed. I lost the home where I raised my children — the foundation I had spent years building. When I became homeless, I lived and worked out of my vehicle with my two dogs, doing everything I could to survive and keep us safe. That vehicle became our shelter until it was stolen, and losing it during an already unstable period left us without transportation and without a safe place to stay. During this time, I also lost one of my dogs, Dave, to cancer. Since then, it has been Marco and me trying to find safe housing together. I have continued to reach out for help, revisit resources, and keep rebuilding even when situations that were meant to be safe turned out not to be. I’m deeply grateful for the financial support and encouragement a few family members and longtime friends have provided along the way. Their help has allowed me to keep moving forward, but stable housing and day-to-day security have remained out of reach, which is why I’m asking for help now. Over the past two years, I have tenaciously exhausted the resources that are supposed to be available to people in situations like mine — following leads, making calls, and doing everything I could to find stability through existing systems. After pursuing those options again and again, I’ve reached the point where I need direct support to rebuild a safe, healthy, and stable foundation for myself and my family. While actively seeking immediate steady employment and consistent income, I’m also returning to my entrepreneurial roots by laying the foundation for passion-driven work I’ve been building — motocross mentoring projects focused on mindset, emotional resilience, and practical safety awareness, bringing riders, families, tracks, and the broader motocross community together around safer race-day practices in addition to existing AMA safety standards. I plan to use my experiences to help others recognize and avoid the kinds of hardship that can quietly dismantle lives and families. Once I’m back on my feet, I will pay that support forward and help others the way I once was able to do. Right now I have temporary housing only through the twenty-first of this month — just a few days away — and my immediate goal is to secure a small, affordable rental — ideally in southwest Iowa, including but not limited to the Red Oak area or nearby communities — where Marco and I can finally have a safe, stable place to live and rebuild. Funds will go toward securing stable housing, utilities, and the basic restart costs that come with getting back on my feet, along with reliable transportation to restore day-to-day stability and independence. Any support beyond those immediate needs will help ensure Marco receives needed veterinary care and will allow me to begin showing up for my kids again in the ways that matter — both emotionally and financially — helping with their college tuition, picking back up my role in co-parenting, and supporting the real-life expenses they face in this season of life. While low-cost or free resources do exist, many did not result in real or usable support for my situation, and accessing them often became more difficult while navigating housing instability, limited transportation, and the repeated theft of phones, personal property, and my vehicle during this time. Marco and my children have been my constant support through everything, and moving forward into stability means more than I can explain. This fundraiser is a hand up, not a handout — a bridge from survival back to stability. To everyone who has supported me in any way along the journey, thank you. And to anyone who is able to help, share, or offer practical resources or leads, I truly appreciate you being part of this next step forward. — Tracey Powers