Tell Me Something Good - Shaq's daughter plays basketball at Episcopal HS, Angela found her opportunity with Goodwill Houston

Shaquille O'neal's daughter plays basketball here for Episcopal High School and recently announced that she will be committing to University of Florida.....and Angela went thru a health scare that affected her ability to walk, but she still found her opportunity over at Goodwill Houston

Episode Transcript

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Yeah, tell me something good broughtto us by our friends at Goodwill Houston.
I love highlighting exceptional students. NiaraO'Neill. She is one of them.
Pretty incredible. She's the daughter ofShaquille O'Neill and she plays basketball at
Episcopal High School. Yesterday she revealedshe will be attending YEP. It was

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signing day University of Florida, overseven other schools she had offers from,
including Shaq's alma mater. Now.As a treat, Shaq and mom Shawnee
surprised her with a sweet new whiterange Rover. Can you imagine? Oh
my gosh. Anyway, she's themost humble young lady. She says.

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She hopes to inspire the younger generationand basically anyone to just follow your dreams
and don't stop. Well, congratulationsNiara O'Neill on signing day, it's going
to be pretty incredible. I hadno idea she went to Episcopal High School.
Yeah. Producer Anthony Dane caught GoodwillHouston out here changing lives again,

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this time with Angela. See.Ever since she was sixteen years old,
she's been employed, and that wasan accomplishment. She was always proud of
but back in twenty nineteen, herlife changed forever. She was rushed to
the hospital after her doctor discovered thather IUD had traveled inside her body and
was causing this dangerous blood infection.She spent three months fighting this infection before
she was released from the hospital togo home. But the whole ordeal left

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Angela unable to walk on her ownand she was forever to get around with
the assistance of a walker. Withno income, she still had bills to
pay. She applied for Social Securityand was approved, but she just couldn't
shake this feeling their life lacked purpose. Well, she didn't give up and
last year she started working with GoodwillTemporary Services and was placed with a job.
And then this year she applied onlinefor an intake specialist position at Goodwill

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Houston and now works at the RiverOaks Career Center location, helping others to
find their purpose through the power ofwork. So big shout out to Angela
for finding her purpose again and inGoodwill Houston, providing these opportunit unities and
continuing to change lives. That isamazing. Wow, you always can find
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