Anna McBroom
What makes Anna Wildly Capable?
Balanced by her authenticity, humor and deep faith, Anna’s fierceness has contributed to her success in the traditionally male-dominated field of architecture and design; the creation of her business, AMMP Studio; and the formation of her beautiful family.
What makes you feel proud?
I feel most proud when I witness my older children expressing their love for people. They already have a heart to help others and are so empathetic towards those they see hurting it amazes me all the time.
Who is the biggest influence in your life? Why?
The easiest way to answer is to say my church family. The longer answer is in every phase of my life I have had a church home. The people in those church homes have acted as role models, shown me true leadership, lived out servanthood, shown me how to be a boss lady and loved me unconditionally. I was able to look around during those different stages of life and see the qualities I wanted to have in myself. My prayer is that someday someone younger can say they saw something in me.
One year from today, how do you hope you’re different?
Over the past 18 months while growing my architecture and design firm, I have also been trying to focus on growing myself. I pray I am still pushing myself to find peace, be present with my family and working to be healthy physically and mentally. In a year I hope that those things are second nature.
What’s the single biggest problem you’d like to solve in your community?
Connection! I volunteer for local non-profit Focus on Home, which works with families who have experienced homelessness but now have a house or an apartment, but nothing else. As a Family Coordinator volunteer, I create a furniture/decor package specifically for the needs of that family to help them turn their house into a home, and I can make one Facebook post and have a carload of baby items or home decor in a day to help someone in need. In the same way I know that if I personally have a need I have an amazing community of people that will help me in a heartbeat. Too often the families and mainly women who I meet or help with Focus on Home have no one. No community, no family, no one they feel like they can call and rely on. We are too closed off from each other and all it does it hurt us all in the long run.
