Native to Australia, Georgie Smith began her career in the entertainment industry working for various production companies as a producer of videos. With a desire to grow personally and professionally, she relocated to Los Angeles, where she founded a lifestyle consultancy that created events, homes, and celebrations. 

Through the consultancy and with a commitment to helping others, Smith realized the need for assisting youth aging out of the foster care system in Los Angeles. What started out as collecting furniture and home goods has turned into a movement that strives to prevent homelessness by creating first-ever homes for these foster youth.

By pooling resources readily available in the community to create beautiful first homes, Smith changed the trajectory of aged-out foster youth (and their own children) by founding A Sense of Home. Whether they have already experienced homelessness or not, 99% of recipients of ASOH have been successful in maintaining their tenancy. 

Georgie is currently acting CEO of A Sense of Home. This non-profit organization has been successful in creating over 940 homes in the past 9 years. 

The ASOH model addresses two major social crises: homelessness and the environment and matches excess in consumer goods with those in need through a seamless process that adds value to every participant, at every step. ASOH eliminates the financial obstacles of furnishing a home and improves the overall well-being of the recipient as well as society overall. 

All of Smith’s time, resources, and passion in recent years have been parlayed into building ASOH. Now that the ASOH model is ripe for replication, Georgie will harness her design skills into establishing a lifestyle brand that will share profits with ASOH, enabling the organization to become self-sustaining.