Lynette Spano

Entreprenur - Author - Actress - Singer

Lynette Spano the name given to her at birth, made her own way in life. Coming from a poor area of Brooklyn, She then changed her last name to Spano. Starting as a receptionist for a software company she developed an interest in technology. She branched out on her own and started SCI in her mother’s basement. Spano grew it into a 500-person company that generated multimillion-dollar federal contracts and became one of the largest woman-owned contracting companies in the Federal space. She overcame not only financial challenges but also a life-threatening illness that took her journey into the world of Authoring, Singing and Acting. “Its not what happens to you but what you do with it to overcome adversity”

A STORY

TO BE TOLD

Is it destiny, chance or pure luck. Lynette her entire life was told of a Cuban father and sister 6 years her senior who lived in Cuba . On September 05, 2019 while sitting in a fencing academy in Fairfax VA watching her 8 year old grandson taking a fencing lesson, Lynette having no idea the woman sitting next to her the wife of one of the fencing coaches was the daughter of the sister she had never met. To learn that her sister had died in Cuba from the very same illness that she had contracted, Meningitis. This illness also almost took her life and left her struggling for almost 5 years with forms of brain swelling and cognitive impairment, affecting her concentration, trouble remembering and making decisions that effected her everyday life. to know that she had a niece in her hometown, this event was forever life changing.

While visiting Cuba she also learned of her Spanish heritage, her grandfather’s and grandmother’s roots tied to Sueca Spain and the arrival of her father in his 20’s in Cuba. Her grandfathers difficult journey during the Franco era, the cause of his death as a result of La Pava a Bomber plane navigated by Mussolini’s son Bruno who dropped the bomb in Valencia where her grandfather was stationed finally causing his death. The story in 1943 where Lynette’s Grandmother Felicisima with her 8 children including her father 20 years of age at the time, boarded a ship to go to Cuba with the aid of the Cuban embassy in Spain. Is she Puerto Rican, Cuban or Spaniard? More to be told in the release of Lynette’s Autobiography “The Price You Pay”

GRANDPARENTS BOND IS EVERLASTING

Life has a way of changing your course, Are we really in control? Lynette wrote the book Nona and Maddox to fill the void in children’s books that feature a child being raised by a grandmother. She hopes through her book to show children that there is no one right way to be a family and to normalize the experience millions of children around the world have of being raised by grandparents.

2.9 million grandparents are raising over 4.5 million children in the United States, which means there are many children like Maddox. He wanted to share his story in “A day in the life of an ordinary boy, Nona and Maddox.”