Today we’d like to introduce you to Dr. Sherell Edwards.
Hi Dr. Sherell, we’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
My story doesn’t start with a clean beginning, and I think that’s exactly why it matters.
I was raised by my maternal grandfather and his second wife — my biological grandmother had already passed before I was born. My mother became a parent as a teenager, and I repeated that same chapter myself. By every statistic that should have defined my future, the odds were not in my favor.
But somewhere in the middle of that rocky start, something in me decided differently. I knew education was my way out — not just out of circumstance, but into a future I hadn’t seen modeled for me yet. I finished high school with honors, left home shortly after, and built a life one deliberate step at a time: working two part-time jobs while attending college full-time, raising my son as a young mother determined to give him more than I’d been given.
I married at 24, in 1995. We had a set of twins together, and built eight years of life before the marriage ended in December 2003 — by then, I was raising three children essentially on my own: my twins in first grade, my oldest in his senior year of high school. In between all of it, I completed my Master’s degree in Human Resources in December 1998, somehow finding the hours within hours to keep building.
In 2005, I stepped away from my last traditional job, and by the fall of 2008, I had launched my first business as a trucking agent while working as a state contractor with Florida’s Agency for Healthcare Administration. From that point forward, I never returned to a W-2 — only business ownership and contract work, shaped and reshaped constantly around the needs of my children.
Then came 2022 — in the middle of a global pandemic, while the world stood still, I pushed forward and earned my doctoral degree in Healthcare, entirely online, entirely self-funded through everything else I was already carrying.
I share all of this not for sympathy, but because I believe the in-between moments — the ones too numerous and too layered to fit into any single interview — are exactly where faith does its quiet work. My relationship with Christ has been the one constant thread running beneath every chapter: the teenage motherhood, the divorce, the doctorate, the businesses built from nothing. Not because the road was ever easy, but because I never walked it believing I was meant to stay where I started.
I’m in my mid-50s now, and I can tell you with complete certainty — this story isn’t finished. If anything, I feel like I’m just starting again, but this “leg” of the race… tested, tried, wiser. The journey continues, and I’m walking into these next chapters with a spirit of self-growth, adventure, and energy I didn’t always believe I was free to feel before. There’s more ahead. I intend to see all of it.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
The one thing I’d add is that this season of my life has taught me that reinvention doesn’t happen once — it happens continuously, for as long as you’re willing to keep growing.
I’ve been actively establishing international connections in my dispute resolution work, building relationships and exploring opportunities across borders as I continue to grow my practice beyond the U.S. I’m also actively growing the Board of Directors for my nonprofit, 1024 Betty’s Way INC, which addresses childhood food insecurity through our monthly Snak Pack program — work I remain deeply committed to, no matter how far my professional reach extends.
If there’s one thing I’d want readers to take away, it’s this: it is never too late, and you are never too far behind, to start something new. Whether that’s launching a business, learning a skill you never thought you’d touch, or building bridges to opportunities you didn’t think were within reach — the door is always more open than it looks from the outside.
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know?
AGC Wholesale LLC, doing business as AGC Digital Solutions, reflects a creative range of work I do as an entrepreneur and professional — spanning wholesale business operations, consulting and administrative services, and most recently, digital product development.
What I specialize in is bridging professional rigor with practical, real-world solutions. With a background as a Florida Supreme Court Certified Mediator, FINRA Panel Arbitrator, and over 20 years of experience in compliance, documentation, and dispute resolution, I bring an unusually thorough and detail-oriented approach to everything I build — whether that’s a business agreement, a wholesale operation, or, most recently, a mobile application.
This past year, AGC Digital Solutions expanded into app development with the launch of AlertCircle, a personal connectivity app I built from the ground up as a non-developer. AlertCircle helps people stay genuinely connected to the people who matter most through three simple modes — sending priority notifications, confirming safe arrivals, and maintaining daily check-ins with loved ones.
What sets me apart, I believe, is that I don’t stay confined to one lane. I move fluidly between dispute resolution, business operations, nonprofit leadership, and technology development — and I bring the same standard of integrity and thoroughness to each one. What I’m most proud of is simply this: every brand and product I build is rooted in genuinely solving a real problem for real people, not chasing trends.
I want readers to know that AGC Digital Solutions is a reflection of resourcefulness — proof that you don’t need a traditional background to build meaningful things, you simply need to be willing to learn and persist.
Before we go, is there anything else you can share with us?
The one thing I’d add is that this season of my life has taught me that reinvention doesn’t happen once — it happens continuously, for as long as you’re willing to keep growing.
I’ve been actively establishing international connections in my dispute resolution work, building relationships and exploring opportunities across borders as I continue to grow my practice beyond the U.S. I’m also actively growing the Board of Directors for my nonprofit, 1024 Betty’s Way INC, which addresses childhood food insecurity through our monthly Snak Pack program — work I remain deeply committed to, no matter how far my professional reach extends.
If there’s one thing I’d want readers to take away, it’s this: it is never too late, and you are never too far behind, to start something new. Whether that’s launching a business, learning a skill you never thought you’d touch, or building bridges to opportunities you didn’t think were within reach — the door is always more open than it looks from the outside.
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Contact Info:
- Website: https://alertcircle.online
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