Lived Xperience; Job Platform + Flim Studio + IncubAitor + VC FUND
rZilient, Inc. aims to grow/build the world’s first hybrid purpose-driven “Camel>Unicorn” thar offers “merit-based” opportunities to rZilients: marketers, developers, entrepreneurs storytelling artists (all genres including chefs!) and filmmakers who have overcome/overcoming mental health PTSD journeys (like me) and want to work and contribute as the creative, ambitious, capable people we are without STIGMA. I hope to first unite Toronto and San Francisco to unite build the platform and then share it with the world. I first learned about social impact in 2019 when I found out about Pledge 1% and became a member (https://www.pledge1percent.org/like-really-proud-and-grateful/) United.cool “failed” but I kept going and here I am with rZilient gifting my art to The Shoebox Project in Canada – in 2024. As when I was homeless in Toronto after returning from San Francisco in 2018 – I was given one of their gift boxes, so giving back and volunteering is very important to me. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6wpatzJCV3/
rZilient, Inc. is the culmination of 25 years of entrepreneurial failure and it brings together all of my companies, ideas and passions under one umbrella. By March 2025 – I was ready to give up, and I met a true “somebody” and when introduced to him, I said, “I am just a nobody” while I was crying! Well, this person looked at me sternly, and said, “You should never say that. Everybody can contribute. Never give up!” – And here I am today, submitting my 2nd Pledge 1% Story for Giving Tuesday in 2025!
The rZilient PledgELEVEN 11% Promise:
San Francisco inspired me to GIVE and I learned about social entrepreneurship through Pledge 1%. I was so fortunate that Stephen Payne ( formerly with Pledge 1%) invited me to the Tides Foundation office where I brought a gift and the visit turned out to be the biggest gift of all! It was then that I decided I would come back home to Canada and one day launch my company that would PledgEleven 11% through Pledge 1% in gratitude ONE DAY – and that day will start on May 21, 2026 when rZilient Inc launches, small but mighty – a baby camel – so resilient that it is “turbo charged” with a Capital Z!
rZilient PURPOSE: is to co-creAIte a rZilient: JobHub, incubAitor, VC Fund + Film Studio in partnership with impact investors, partnering nonprofits and global government to boost local/global economies and cut social spending by creating opportunities for those struggling with mental health to be given the opportunity to share their talents and work – as equals – without stigma.
rZilient, MISSION: is to do for Entrepreneurs what the Paralympics does for Athletes.
Our GOAL: is to grow our “baby camel of a start-up” into a global, giving Unicorn by 2036.
Who is “OUR” – full disclosure, just a one-person (+ inner child) MVP for now!
My name is Gloria Maxx and I have suffered from cPTSD all my life and for the past 25 years I have tried to launch social impact start ups and failed each time. I reached a rock bottom so low last year that I finally accepted to be on disability although I fought it for years! Right now, my “boss” is the Toronto, Ontario, Canadian tax payer and I want to create opportunities not just for me, but others like me who can work, and want to work to be able to contribute, thrive and succeed and support themselves – but we need an opportunity to be trusted that we can produce and perform! This is how I became rZilient – and I am scared but resolute to become my own “MVP”.
As an entrepreneur, storyteller and artist who openly co-creates with “Gloriutza” my inner-child. I have finally begun to truly overcome my cPTSD caused by childhood trauma which began as the child of a Romanian refugee who fled his country to make a better life for his family in Canada.
GIVING BACK my rZilient talent to prove myself first!
As a ‘failed’ entrepreneur and someone who openly shared my mental health journey, so many doors closed to me. I started off my doing pro bono work, lots of volunteering over the years to prove myself and it worked! My first pro-bono rZilient job was www.theanthem.ca where I created the website from scratch on Weebly ( the only program I know and love) for Professor George Elliott Clarke ( former Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate and Toronto Poet Laureate) because I believe in their cause of promoting his family’s Afro-Metis struggles and triumphs. See: www.theanthem.ca
rZilient networks and makes a yummy community day December 2024:
I also “pitched” my non-profit building to allow me to do rZilient community events where I would get community partners to donate the food and entertainment. On December 2024. our Merry Happy Christmukkah event where I was able toto partner with Loblaw’s Head Office Store (Canada’s largest grocery store by market share) which supported all 7 of my events to date – even pre rZilient! Here are a few pics!
